Center for Security Policy: No more surprises

Wonder where this Administration is getting their intelligence from now with this major gaffe on Iran's ability to build and deliver a nuclear bomb. How can Gates be so wrong? Has Obama already destroyed our intelligence capability?

Obama caved to the Russians on the Missile Shield for Eastern Europe for help on Iran (dumb move) and now we know Iran has the capability for a nuclear bomb so what else has Obama given up to make our enemies stronger and our allies weaker?

Sure hope voters learned a lesson that you never elect someone with ZERO experience to be President or someone this far left.

No more surprises (Cancel Missile Defense and Iran has Capability to Build a Nuclear Bomb)

Center for Security Policy ^ 18 Sept 09 Christopher Holton

Capitol Hill in Washington continued to be engrossed in the healthcare debate and the uproar over ACORN. But those weren't the most significant news stories of the day, even if they did garner most of the attention of the media. There were two other news stories which are likely to have much more far-reaching implications for America and the Free World.

First, the Obama administration announced that it was canceling plans to build missile defense installations and deploy interceptor missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Obama team came prepared with a nice spin on the explanation for this terribly myopic decision.

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Gates said that this decision came as a result of intelligence that the Islamic Republic of Iran's ballistic missile program had not developed as fast as previously thought and that this meant that the chief threat from Iran was not its planned Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) but rather its short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. (We'll get into the flaws in Gates' assertion a little later.)

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The AP reported that the nuclear experts at the IAEA were in agreement that Iran already possesses the capability to build a nuclear bomb and is "on its way" to developing a missile system capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. Specifically, the report declared that Iran was likely to "overcome problems" on developing a delivery system.

There have been times in the past when US intelligence estimates were proved wrong, but Secretary Gates had barely climbed down from the podium when his homily about the Iranian threat proved to be, well, hogwash. Congratulations Secretary Gates. You've set a new record.

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