You keep posting this rubbish. Why???
1) The first link is England. Not the US.
2) The second link is to a book review.
3) This book evidently has all sorts of great CIA top secret stories. Either someone in the CIA is leaking all known details from every angle, or it's not accurate.
4) The author, James Risen, put out this book at the same time he wrote an article about the NSA spying on Americans. It's great that he was able to write an article to garner publicity for his book. It's great that James wrote the NSA piece in a negative light, but also admitted he knew about it for over a year and thus controlled the timing of its publication.
5) If you read the "story", the CIA gave them a faulty design that would get them off the weapons tracks. This had been done many times before. It was a Russian Scientist who told the Iranians that there was a problem with his design.
"Merlin was supposed to stunt the development of Tehran's nuclear programme by sending Iran's weapons experts down the wrong technical path. The CIA believed that once the Iranians had the blueprints and studied them, they would believe the designs were usable and so would start to build an atom bomb based on the flawed designs. But Tehran would get a big surprise when its scientists tried to explode their new bomb. Instead of a mushroom cloud, the Iranian scientists would witness a disappointing fizzle. The Iranian nuclear programme would suffer a humiliating setback, and Tehran's goal of becoming a nuclear power would have been delayed by several years. In the meantime, the CIA, by watching Iran's reaction to the blueprints, would have gained a wealth of information about the status of Iran's weapons programme, which has been shrouded in secrecy."
STOP POSTING THIS RUBBISH!
-Rudey
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Originally posted by positive14
Bill Hicks was a stand-up performer and commentator who challenged this type of foreign policy by quoting the movie "Shane".
Jack Palance forces a small farmer to pick up a gun. "Pickitup, pickitup!" The man won't. "Pickitup!" He still won't, he's scared... and he's only in town to buy candy for the kids and a roll of gingham for his wife. Palance commands him: he picks it up. Kapow! Palance blasts him away. "You saw him," says Palance. "He had a gun."
Continuing in jest he would follow with somthing like...
Of course... All the US had to do was look at the receipt, Hicks said. As soon as the check cleared, they'd be goin' in to fight that little country in the name of God, democracy and whoever they currently liked.
His comedy was a little sensationalistic, but the overall message points to some very real problems with this type of foreign policy.
We gave Iran the capability they needed to create WMD's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2275249.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...html?gusrc=rss
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