This new NIE report begins to reverberate around the World:
Europeans See Murkier Case for Sanctions
"Officially, we will study the document carefully; unofficially, our efforts to build up momentum for another resolution are gone," said one European official involved in the diplomacy.
Another senior European official called the conclusions of the assessment "unfathomable."
Russia and China have resisted the passage of more punitive sanctions, and Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, praised the report as vindication of Russia’s position.
"We have always been saying there is no proof they are pursuing nuclear weapons," Mr. Churkin told reporters. He added, however, that he did not know what impact the report would have on the new initiative for more sanctions.
No country in the world will support Cheney and the rest of them now. None.
Well ... the UK will be luke warm. In Public anyway.
Then of course we have the White House response by Hadley, carefully reviewed by Countdown and Rachel Maddow:
Countdown: Bush’s Nukyular Credibility Meltdown
Hopefully the w has cried wolf to the world for his last time.
Just as there was a resolution to brand parts of the Iran army terrorists, there should now be one to demand open negotiations with Iran.
If chimp boy does bomb or nuke Iran, it will be known to the World it was baseless.
And still! Hadley and the rest of them are attempting to carry on as if it's business as usual. No big deal.
That sixteen intelligence agencies were able to come to the same conclusion and say so, that is stunning in itself.
They collectively thumbed their noses Cheney and the monkeyboy.
This. IS a big deal.
Here we have Hadley, saying that the Pentagon and Bush AND anyone else knew nothing of the report before last week. That is ... impossible.
Watch it in the Countdown report. It's ... unbelievable.
They are trying to say they never saw the NIE report they have been sitting on for almost a year.
I don't see how they can put any spin on this ball.
As Rachel Maddow says, it's curveball.
It's now the monkeyboy and the flying monkeys, against the rest of the world.
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