Iran: Why Won't We Take Yes For An Answer? Israel's amen corner tries to spin the NIE report by Justin Raimondo

Published: December 7, 2007, 1:04 am

Iran: Why Won't We Take Yes For An Answer?Israel's amen corner tries to spin the NIE reportby Justin Raimondohttp://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12014Israel's lobby in the US is "scrambling," as Ron Kampeas puts it in the Jewish Exponent, to defend the draconian sanctions imposed on Iran for its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons. With a war-weary America unlikely to respond favorably to the news that President Bush has ordered an attack on Iran, the War Party has had to content itself with preparing the ground for a future conflict, including a campaign to isolate Tehran economically, diplomatically, and politically. Now, however, as Kampeas reports,"The NIE is being held up by Congress, the presidential candidates and the media as an argument for tamping down isolation of the Islamic Republic rather than a vindication of earlier warnings that Iran indeed was pursuing a bomb. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations organized an emergency conference

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