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[johnny9fingers]

Now this seems like intelligence of the kind that seems in accordance with the understanding of those of us who have followed the situation: this doesn't mean that it's true, just it seems to confirm what a number of folk have been saying for some time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7125701.stm

Now, GWB's a lame duck president. He holds office until January. He doesn't have a majority in either house. The intelligence reports are against him and will not support this administration's WMD thesis.

If he goes for Iran now, because he's already signed his own immunity certificate, no-one can do anything about it: isn't that the perfect definition of democracy? No fault wars of invasion. No-one's to blame.
I rather think even the Republicans wouldn't have enough bare-faced chutzpah to allow the present administration to get away with that.....but I may be wrong: after all, the Dems are such gutless wonders.

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[winterlion.livejournal.com]

Attached to the story is the PDF of the report.
It's very interesting.

I really wish Iran had licensed CANDU reactors completely. They don't require enrichment (Canada developed them specifically because Canada had problems with enrichment) - and they're relatively "easy" to build and maintain.
I suspect the CANDU contract halted when prior reports about weapons developments happened - CANDU reactors are not sold to countries that are developing nuclear weapons. (India lost the contract over that)

I think the key issue for Iran is electricity. Solve that and most likely they'll be amenable to negotiations.

I'm very much against the US's plans for invasion. They have no reason to do so.