How many times will the CIA or any other security service in our country be wrong about Iran because they slander so called Zionist thinkers who believe Iran will get a Nuke sooner then expected and at the very least presently has the means to distribute a dirty bomb to terrorists to take to the United States? This has nothing to do with Obama because these people were running the show during the Bush administration.
Another poor U.S. http://xrl.us/CostBenefit Analyis: flashback to 2007 - Ehud Barak told Army Radio: “IRAN] ...apparently continued that program. We cannot afford to rest just because of an intelligence report from the other side of the globe, even if it is from our greatest friend.
...and apparently Bush was lied to by his own Secret Service... and he pushed those lies on Israel
An Interview Of Diana West by Ruth King via docstalk.blogspot.com
As al Qaeda imam Abu Qatada once said in similar context about George W. Bush’s misreading of Islam as a “religion of peace”: “I am astonished by President Bush when he claims there is nothing in the Koran that justifies jihad or violence in the name of Islam. Is he some kind of Islamic scholar? Has he ever actually read the Koran?”
The impulse on the Right has been to deny, downplay or just ignore the implications of http://xrl.us/Petraeus' Arab-Israeli comments. Amazingly, at two weeks into the controversy, Petraeus' Senate testimony still hadn't received any coverage at NRO or The Corner, (Andy McCarthy's piece came later), had been whitewashed in brief at the Weekly Standard's blog, whitewashed at the American Spectator, and ignored in columns (John Bolton, Linda Chavez) on Israel's abuse at the hands of the Obama administration (predicated on the mindset, sensationally enough, shared by Petraeus) or further whitewashed (Brett Stephens). A particularly virulent (and even slanderous to me) Petraeus defense was mounted at Commentary's blog Contentions summed up first and then here.
Dick Morris was the first conservative that I know of to "come out" and, in effect, join me in noting Petraeus' hostility to Israel. He wrote: "Gen. Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that `Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples [in the region] ... Enduring hostilites between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility.' In other words, blame Israel." It's that simple.
Caroline Glick has recently examined the evidence and come to a similar conclusion.
