Iran announces mass uranium production

[Pannonian]

"Those of us who have followed reports on the development of Iran's nuclear program know that the warnings from American and other intelligence agencies about Tehran building a bomb in three and five years have been made again and again — for more than 15 years.

For 15 years, the intelligence agencies have been proven dead wrong. And to this gross exaggeration of Iran's true intentions and capabilities must be added the fairy tales the same intelligence agencies have been feeding the world regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

The Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and the rest of the American intelligence community may know where Iran's nuclear installations are located. Or they may not. They may know how those installations are inter-connected, which ones are the most important, and how they can be hit and destroyed. Or they may not.

If their past record is any indication, the intelligence agencies may not even know how to tell whether they know enough about Iran's nuclear installations — or whether or not they are lying to their superiors, or to themselves. Anybody who believes one word they are saying — let alone uses the "information" they provide as a basis for decision-making — must be out of his or her mind."

Dixit Martin van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Hebrew University and said to be the only non-American author on the U.S. Army's required reading list for officers.

Don't forget his remark that Iran would be mad if they weren't pursuing nuclear weapons.

We've already seen their inability to control the radicals in their government with them taking 15 hostages. What do you think will happen once they have nuclear weapons or just nuclear waste?

That's why it's so important to get them on our side so we can help them retain control of any potential nuclear matter. To paraphrase, it's better to have them in the tent urinating out, than out urinating in. If you can't stop someone from getting something, you might as well try and get control of it once they have it.