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Congress Clueless About Iran’s Nuclear Threat

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 23 April 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States doesn’t have enough good intelligence to know whether or not
Iran will be capable of producing nuclear weapons in the near future, top congressional intelligence committee members said on Sunday.

Iran said earlier on Sunday it would not abandon its work on nuclear enrichment, which the
United Nations has demanded it halt, and was prepared to face sanctions from abroad.

Asked on Fox News Sunday when Iran might be capable of producing nuclear weapons, House Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said: "I’d say we really don’t know.

"We’re getting lots of mixed messages," Hoekstra said.

"We’ve got a long way to go in rebuilding our intelligence community. .... We don’t have all of the information we would like to have.

Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, concurred. "Our intelligence is thin," she told Fox News. "I don’t think we have enough sources, I don’t think our analysis is sharp enough."

Washington has said it wants a diplomatic resolution over Iran’s nuclear ambitions but has not ruled out military action, a step its allies, as well as Russia and China, oppose.

"This is not a time to be saber-rattling in our government," said Harmon. "Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn’t prove their capabilities.
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Did Jane Harman vote to send Iran to the UN anyway?

A recent vote in congress to send Iran to the UN based on no intelligence revealed that most in congress are still willing to support Bush’s lies after everything that has happened.

Dennis Kucinich, Pete Stark, Ron Paul and Jim McDermott are the only US congressmen that voted against provoking a war in Iran.

Congressman Conyers, who many are counting on to hold Bush accountable, voted yes to send Iran to the UN. Congressman John Conyers recently used the outrage about Bush’s admitted impeachable offence of illegal wiretapping, to introduce a censure over Iraq. We have admitted impeachable offences and John Conyers is stalling for Bush, ignoring the most obvious way to remove Bush from power. If he really gave a damn about justice for Iraq, then why would he give Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran? Why would anyone?

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  • They dont need to make the first one they get, Russia needs money they can buy one there 20 mill apiece. Putin wont care if we get nuked.

    • The only country which talks constantly about nuking others is the United States.
      By the way - remember Hiroshima/Nagasaki an act of incredible cowardice. Japan defeated and 500.000 civilians died a useless brutal death.
      Russia is not a threat, but U.S. and allies are.

    • They absolutely are! especially democrats. I am afraid the democrats are going to put the country in danger because of their political agendas. Let the justice and democracy prevail in middle east.