Rush To Hillary: If Iran Has No Nukes, What’s the Diplomacy For?
December 6, 2007
Rush Limbaugh is hitting Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and other Democrats who are finding this latest national intelligence estimate (NIE) on Iran infallable, while they were skeptical of previous CIA reports that suggested Iran was developing nuclear weapons.
Barack Obama denounced Bush's "saber-rattling" while Hillary said the NIE strengthens her argument for restoring diplomatic relations with Iran.
"They couldn't care less about the substance of the issue… This is all about making Bush out to be a liar! Here's what I would say to Mrs. Clinton: If indeed, they have stopped, what's to talk about? What's the point of diplomacy here? Lift the sanctions, everything's fine now."
Rush notes that every country has developed their nuclear weapons in secret. Apparently, we are to believe, Iran will be the exception.
Related question, he raises: If there is no weapons program, why is the IAEA not getting full access to Iranian facilities? And, I would note this from the New York Times today:
“To be frank, we are more skeptical,” a senior official close to the agency said. “We don’t buy the American analysis 100 percent. We are not that generous with Iran.”
The official called the American assertion that Iran had “halted” its weapons program in 2003 “somewhat surprising.”
That the nuclear watchdog agency based in Vienna is sounding a somewhat tougher line than the Bush administration is surprising, given that the administration has long criticized it for not pressuring Iran hard enough to curb its nuclear program.
More Rush on the NIE: "There is nothing about this that passes the smell test."
Source: National Review Campaign Spot
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