Comments on: NY Times Backpedaling on Iran NIE

By: dabreeze

dabreeze — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:09 +0000

The NYT should read its own past issues. Nov. 1, 2004, reports the Iranian Parliament unanimously voted “to Resume Nuclear Work… with some chanting “Death to America” and “God is great.”

I honestly believe that the NYT hates the Bush Administration so bad they would rather die than cooperate.

By: timstevens

timstevens — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:38:25 +0000

why, oh why does anyone care what the NYT thinks? i wouldn’t even wipe my butt with that paper.

the next time the NYT releases any classified information, the feds should prosecute them or STFU.

i’m quite tired of the NYT proclaiming its reality should be our reality and the feds via W complaining, wringing their hands and ultimately doing nothing about it.

By: Buck Smith

Buck Smith — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:11:55 +0000

This creates an opportunity for a character defining question for the remaining three presindential candidates:

“Sir [Madam] The NYT leaked intelligence assessments that said that iran stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003. Now they report the IAEA says Iran’s actions are are “not consistent with any application other than the development of a nuclear weapon.” You have access to NIE’s and other intelligence reports. In your estimation is Iran developing a nuclear weapon?”

This is really sweet because Obama has made a big deal of reading the NIE as regards the vote to go in Iraq. We need the answer to this question on video from all three candidates.

By: Fat Jolly Penguin

Fat Jolly Penguin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:58:18 +0000

I heard something on the radio a couple of weeks ago about parts of that same NIE being based on documentation that has been proven to be forged. Any word on this?

By: NotYourDaddy

NotYourDaddy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:07:46 +0000

According to the NYT, Mike McConnell, the key author of the NIE report said last month that the report had focused exclusively on the “least significant part” of Iran’s nuclear development program in downplaying the continuing threat. He has now expressed his own concerns about the effects of the report, and conceded “In retrospect, I would do some things differently.”

Nobody in the world believes Iran has stopped its nuclear development program, except for certain lefties in the U.S. who gleefully latched on to this now discredited report, and even they don’t believe it anymore. So are we just going to keep pretending we all believe it, or are we going to officially acknowledge our mistake and set about addressing the threat?

By: Morton Doodslag

Morton Doodslag — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:06:36 +0000

Ultimately, as infuriating as a near-traitorous outfit like the NYTs is to red blooded Americans, it must be more so for our external enemies.

The enemies of America are lured into a false sense of security by all the traitor-academics, traitor-journalists, and traitor-leftists who want to see America humiliated and bloodied. These internal enemies certainly cause severe damage to us — but the damage which will be inflicted on those external enemies will be staggering when the hammer falls. The destruction of Saddam was prelude. If the evil Islamic powers didn’t recognize how easily America can destroy any of their fragile grasps on power, then they will over-play their hands and lose.

As a nation we’ve been reticent to fully get behind the “rebuilding of Iraq” boondoggle. It’s the burdensome second act in the American style of warfare — destroy the enemy, and then rebuild his homeland, reconstitute his government to be more friendly, and leave. With all their treachery and double dealings and betrayals, the Arabs and Muslims also don’t comprehend that they have made it far less likely that the next time we lash out and dismantle one of their cesspool societies — we will be far less likely to spend a dime “reconstructing” what we have destroyed. With nuclear proliferation, Muslims are playing with fire in more ways than one. They are raising the necessity of wreaking overwhelming violence on them in order to counter the increased menace they pose.

Ultimately their arrogance and foolishness will rain destruction on their heads of the type they wish to visit on ours. They will be the authors of their annihilation if they aren’t very careful — and I somehow think they are incapable of being careful.

By: Rubicon

Rubicon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:20:18 +0000

The NIE, which many in the Intel community are also now backing away from, was composed by three former officials from State I think. Their long standing opposition to the president & especially anything to do with Iraq &/or the war on terror, is well known in Washington circles.
The New York Times, supposedly the nations “newspaper of record,” has a long history of grabbing onto any story or item that disparages Republicans, conservatives, Christians, and especially President Bush.
Bush has made his fair share of mistakes. Some of his stances have infuriated conservatives, which is why McCain is having problems with them today. Add McCain’s special maverick status the NYT loves so much, his McCain-Feingold legislative fiasco that has enabled the vicious rhetoric of groups like MoveON.org & others, plus his association with immigration amnesty which simply means we no longer have borders nor are we concerned with national sovereignty,
has also infuriated conservatives.
But the NYT efforts to find any little thing they can to throw stones at Bush, etc., is finally wearing thin on the people.
The NYT is a dying breed & those taking her to her grave, have done serious disservice to the once great Grey lady & those who made her the once “newspaper of record” for America. Today, the NYT is seen as one of the many pathetic voices of radical liberal leftist socialists desperately trying to convince Americans to become socialists or communists because “they know what is best for us.” Even the investment community has tagged her stock as a “no buy.” To me, this also represents what folks should think of her stories anymore… they are a “no buy!”

By: Kim Zigfeld

Kim Zigfeld — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:55:09 +0000

It really does seem like they’ve decided that, if they’re going down, they’re going to take the country down with them in a blaze of inglory. Terrifying.

By: A. N. Pierson

A. N. Pierson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:49:28 +0000

The NYTimes is a sick institution and a danger to humanity. As with your previous article on the paper, excellent work. Let’s hope their stockholders are watching. They should be.