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To: bentway who wrote (250692)	12/5/2007 3:09:59 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

same for you bud. Lets all admit that we have made this mistake in the past at one point or another. You think you can admit this before nadine can????

To: bentway who wrote (250692)	12/6/2007 10:47:02 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Spies show Bush a way forward on Iran By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Despite the White House spin that the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) supports its policy of increasing pressure on Iran, the estimate not only directly contradicts the George W Bush administration's line on Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons but points to a link between Tehran's 2003 decisions to halt research on weaponization and to negotiate with European foreign ministers on both nuclear and Iranian security concerns...The estimate concludes that the halt in the weapons program was ordered "in response to increasing international scrutiny and pressure resulting from exposure of Iran's previously undeclared nuclear work". That is a reference to the situation facing the Iranian leadership in 2003, when its acquisition of nuclear technology from Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan's network had already been exposed but there was no threat of either military action or economic sanctions against Iran over the nuclear issue. A major feature of the diplomatic situation in the autumn of 2003 was the willingness of Britain, France and Germany to negotiate an agreement with Iran on a wider range of security issues, based on voluntary Iranian suspension of uranium enrichment...