Ollie North: Protecting the Image

[unhappycamper]

Protecting the Image
By convicted felon Oliver North | October 15, 2009

The American dollar isn't the only currency headed to new lows. After months of drifting along in "the winds of change," America's diplomatic credibility is sinking alongside the greenback. The Obama White House and the so-called mainstream media, preoccupied with hoopla over "Health Care Reform," meaningless drivel about the 2016 Olympics and the vacuous award of a Nobel Peace Prize, have barely noticed the water flooding into our ship of state. Unfortunately, the Iranians, North Koreans, Russians and the Taliban have all been paying attention. Don't count of any of them to help bail out our boat.

On September 17, less than a week before he was to scheduled to deliver his utopian "world without nuclear weapons" speech at the annual UN General Assembly séance, Mr. Obama announced that he was abandoning plans for ballistic missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. Commentators around the world drooled all over themselves commending the move as a step toward building "a new era of respect" and noting that the "initiative" would be "welcomed in Moscow."

Mr. Obama's presentation to the UNGA on September 23rd and his speech to the UN Security Council's "Summit on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament on the 24th were celebrated for their "breadth and understanding" and his "appeal for dialogue in the quest for world peace." But the O-Team's careful choreography collapsed just hours later when Iran's secret uranium enrichment facility, buried in the mountains near the holy city of Qom, was exposed.

In the aftermath, it was revealed that Mr. Obama had known about the site since January. When asked why he failed to mention the Iranian malfeasance in either of his UN remarks, a White House spokesman said the administration didn't want "to spoil the image of success" during Mr. Obama's debut at the UN.

Of course, the problem isn't "image" – it's reality. And the reality is that the Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons has continued unabated for at least a decade. U.S. intelligence confirmed that Tehran was building its underground enrichment facility at Nantez in early 2002. Since then, the U.S., the Europeans and the UN's toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been aware that Iran has continued to build multiple centrifuge arrays for refining "weapons grade" nuclear material. An arms-control scientist says the facility at Qom can probably produce "sufficient fissile material to produce one or two multi-kiloton yield nuclear weapons per year."


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,203739,00.html?wh=news



unhappycamper comment: I don't have anything bad to say about convicted felons; only this convicted felon.

[Skeeve]

1. The IAEA may be toothless, but still respected

And yes, they've known about this facility for quite some time...because Iran has been keeping them up-to-date per regulation guidelines. I have a link somewhere I'll dig out and post later, but basically, this site was originally something else and was converted into a uranium processing facility.

There is a point in construction where they must announce their intent before actually beginning a specific operation. Iran did this, and everyone that needed to know was made aware. The IAEA seems confident that Iran is making commercial grade material and isn't in a position to make the more difficult nuclear grade at this time.

Please also note the "opinion" part in the above military.com link. :)

Ollie North is a traitor to the Constitution and the American people, why he still has any credibility whatsoever is a mystery to me.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Giving our U.S. Hawk Missiles to Iran -- real sweet, Traitor North (R)

Thanks a pantload, Jolly Ollie -- for giving our US Hawk Missiles to the 'Evil Empire' of Iran. That just sucks, you Republicon Homelander against America, you.



http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_02.htm

[FreakinDJ]

3. Tehran was building its underground enrichment facility at Nantez in early 2002

Then why didn't your Fuck-Buddy Bush do any thing about it

[Zenlitened]

4. In a just world, Oliver North...

... would have been stood against a wall and shot for treason.

[formercia]

5. We must be doing something right.

Another KOM, War-mongering assh0le comes out of the wood work.

Ollei North gives convicted felons a bad name.

[benld74]

6. You mean NORTH who bent over and took one DEEP for the GUYS

knowing he would be taken care of for doing it the rest of his life?

[Vickers]

7. "By convicted felon Oliver North"

:rofl:

If there was any justice in the world, he would HAVE to put that as his byline.

[malaise]

8. Yah think

:rofl:

[MisterP]

9. of course Lt. Col. Repeal Constitution-Napalm Central Americans-Red Scare is worried about "image"

the man's a Goddamn hologram: he's ALL image

shadows and projections