Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

After all the blue-smoke-and-mirrors "intelligence" that justified the U.S. invasion of Iraq 15 months ago, CIA evidence of an Iranian nuclear bomb would have to be incontrovertible. This sets the bar impossibly high. Hence Israel's conclusion it is on its own. Bombs away? Not yet, but they've rehearsed it.

It was Israel who contributed handsomely to the blue-smoke-and mirrors ‘intelligence’ that justified the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Parliamentary investigators have determined that Israel's intelligence services delivered an erroneous assessment of pre-war Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

Prior to the American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Israeli services reported Iraq had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological agents.

The Haaretz daily said the 80-page report--set to be released next week--had criticized all Israeli intelligence branches for providing erroneous assessments of Iraq's non-conventional weapons.
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Israel has admitted they provided erroneous assessments of Iraq’s non-convention weapons which surely they knew would lead the United States into a war with Iraq.

And now because of Israel the United States would face an increasingly lethal Chinese army modernized by Washington's friends and allies if it had to defend Taiwan in a war with Beijing, said a U.S. study.

Russia's arms exports to China are more sophisticated than ever, and Israel -- recipient of some of America's most advanced technology -- has an increasingly worrisome defense relationship with Beijing, the report said.
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Israel given some of their recent behavior should be on its own.

-Am