National Intelligence Report False : Nuclear Iran

As usual, congress and the media pick and chose what they want to print to support their agenda - an agenda of surrendering American independence and sovereignty to world socialist tyrants. But then socialists make up a large percentage of our congress.

What's worse is we know this but keep electing them and reelecting them. The question remains, what will we do this November? Throw the bums out and demand competence from our legislatures or bury our heads in the sand and just hope for the best. Watching the participants at the church of Obama is not encouraging. Watching the hoards with their eyes glazed over and spittle running down their chins as they calmer to get close to the new messiah scares the hell out of me.

For National reasons, it is imperative that conservatives control one branch of the government - the best case scenario is both, of course, but that may be to much to hope for. Maybe in this instance Obama is right, we need hope to stop our own destruction at the hands of the liberals.

One doesn't have to use too much imagination to see a bomb coming across the boarder in the mad dash by the Mexican population fleeing violence and starvation. But I'm sure Obama's force of personality would be enough to stop the worst from happening.

Stay focused and keep the faith, the battle is joined!


Mahmoud Swing

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008
4:20 PM PT

*Weapons Of Mass Destruction:* Computer simulations by the European Union indicate that Tehran could have enough uranium for a bomb by year's end. Meanwhile, Iran tests a missile that could reach the U.S.

Becoming a genuine nuclear power is a three-step process. You must be able to generate enough fissile material for a bomb. You need a delivery system — i.e. a ballistic missile. And you need to "weaponize" the material, build the bomb and mate it to your missile.

It was the third part that last year's National Intelligence Estimate had said Iran had suspended. But as Uzi Rubin, an engineer and missile expert who served with Israel's Defense Ministry, notes, producing enough weapons-grade fissile material is the hard part; assembling the warhead is easy.

Under the Manhattan Project, once our plants had produced enough weapons-grade material, it took the bomb makers of Los Alamos just six months to detonate the first nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, N.M. Computer simulations of the centrifuges currently used by Iran at its Natanz facility were run recently by the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. The JRC modeled each of the centrifuges individually and then linked them together to form the type of "cascade" necessary to enrich uranium.

Using 18 cascades of 164 centrifuges each operating at 100% efficiency, the JRC determined Iran could have the 25 kilograms of highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuke by the end of this year — about the time we'll select a new president to deal with Iran.

At only 25% efficiency, it would take until 2010. What the JRC makes clear is that it's a matter of when, not if.

Another factor is the type of centrifuges used. The JRC simulations assumed the use of 2,952 P1 centrifuges. The "P" stands for Pakistan, as in the centrifuges sold to Iran by Abdul Qadir Khan, the father of the Pakistani bomb. They are made out of aluminum. The JRC suspects Iran may be installing "IR2" centrifuges, made out of carbon fiber and 2.5 times as powerful.

Last month, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, head of the Missile Defense Agency, noted that Iran was "developing missiles at an accelerated pace" and was in fact the third most active country in the world, after Russia and China. Now there's a trifecta.Gen. Obering said this showed why U.S. plans to deploy missile interceptors and tracking radars in Poland are so important, despite Vladimir Putin's objections.

Of further concern is an Iranian missile test conducted earlier this month at the Iranian space center in the Semnan Desert southeast of Tehran. The test, witnessed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was of a modified three-stage Shahab-3B missile, which was described as a space launch vehicle. It's this missile Iran hopes will orbit a satellite as early as this summer.

Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin, former chief of staff of Russia's Strategic Missile Force, said the Iranian launch showed Iran could produce liquid-fuel rocket engines that would give missiles a 2,500-mile range or more. With strap-on boosters, they could reach North America. As for last year's NIE report, which claimed Iran had halted its program in 2003, that conclusion now seems very wrong.

Britain's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency this week said that documents from multiple sources recently presented to the U.N. nuclear watchdog prove Iran continued its nuclear program after 2003.

So much for the NIE's politicized report.

Iran is frighteningly close to becoming the first Muslim country with a global nuclear reach. This is why the recent shootdown of a decaying spy satellite with a Navy missile looms so important. It is also why the experience and hard realism of a John McCain is infinitely preferable to the naive rhetoric of a Barack Obama.