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Originally Posted by deakolt
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I was just typing a big ol' response to this but then it got lost because I wasn't logged in...
so fuck it.
Believe what you want, but don't take everything you hear/read (even from the IAEA) at face value. The IAEA is by no means an impartial organization.
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I love when people say things like "don't take the IAEA at face value". Oh, okay. I won't. I'll go ahead and corroborate their findings myself. Does Southwest fly to Iranian nuclear centrifuge bases?
What is your source of information on the subject? Have you inspected Iranian nuclear reactors? Who is it that you take at face value? There are relatively few parties that would be in a position to present any credible information on Iran's nuclear program. One would be Iran, which has obvious motives for deceit. Another would be the IAEA, which has inspected the program for years. Other credible sources would be the most advanced intelligence agencies in the world, and the governments they work for -- specifically, the US CIA, Israeli Mossad, and British SIS. Given that all these sources, minus Iran, have made parallel reports, it would be reasonable to assume that they are based in fact. That is, unless you believe they have all convened in a massive, multinational conspiracy.
If there's a comprehensive conspiracy which involves the US intelligence departments, the European intelligence departments, the Israeli intelligence departments, the US government, European governments, Israeli government, all major Western news outlets, the Israeli media, the UN, and the IAEA, well then fuck. They got me. For now, I'm just going to go ahead and take the IAEA's report at face value.
11-03-2011, 03:05 PM
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