Do They Or Don’t They? The NIE and Iran’s Nuclear Program

American Thinker Blog: Do They Or Don’t They? The NIE and Iran’s Nuclear Program (extensively updated): “Clarice Feldman notes Michael Ledeen, who’s been a close watcher of the mullahs, who reviews the NIE report;s conclusions on Iran’s nuclear program and concludes: We went from zero to bomb in four years leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at a time when nobody even knew if the thing was doable. On the IC’s account, the Iranians have been at this since ‘at least the late 1980’s.’ (I actually think it didn’t get into gear until 1991, but let’s not quibble.) During that time, almost everything was for sale (and Iran has lots of money), A.Q. Khan was running his bazaar, Soviet nuclear physicists were hired by Tehran, and the Iranians themselves are very smart. Is it likely, that Iran hasn’t been able to build nukes in two decades? No way. If this NIE is true, the evidence would have to be awfully good. And evidence of that quality has been in famously short supply. These are the same guys who have been telling us for years that Sunnis and Shiites can’t work together, when they should have known that Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Shiites) were trained in the early 1970s by Yasser Arafat’s al Fatah (Sunnis). Color me an unbeliever.”

I think they already have nukes but they are stalling for back ups and for more missile development. Does anyone think that they would have let Saddam develop nukes and not match his nuclear program? Even Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have the know how. Now Iran is putting on this international show for the world and probably laughing themselves silly while they develop a first strike missile capability to use against our fleet and our bases. Even if there were only a small chance that this was true why should we risk it? Iran is not developing very expensive missiles with 1200 mile ranges and beyond to put fire crackers on them. It don’t take a $100 billion intelligence organization to figure that out.