The Code Pinkos, human shields and World Workers Party ought to be dancing in the streets!

I can buy into the notion that Rice might be cautious about believing intelligence produced by the CIA. Anyone should. Those clowns can’t put the hearse in the right place in a two car funeral. However, there is a missing element to the story that was there earlier: the North Koreans.

Remember, the Izzies didn’t attack until the North Korean ship docked and the materials got to the Syrian plant, or whatever it was. I strongly suspect that we a being fed a bill of goods to hide or mask the North Korean role in all this to save the Six Party Agreement and allow Kim to walk away with his winnings from a deal that he made with the Iranians.

Jules, if you want to buy into disinformation, go right ahead, but I suspect that this was manufactured to spare Kim the embarrassment felt by Captain Renaud at Rick’s Cafe Americain after having been presented with his winnings at the Baccarat Table. This story is a big, shiny pony in which there is no mention of a North Korean ship at all. Only that some of the material might have been North Korean in origin.

Did anyone notice that?

Kim made a deal with the Persians to tranship his enriched uranium to the Persians. We and the Israelis knew about it. Kim knew that we knew. Once he got his cash, he screwed his partners in return for a payoff or some other form of protection. He looks innocent because the Syrians, the middleman on the whole deal, got their finders fee and actually collected the uranium. Unfortunately for the Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Jews showed up and bombed everything and got away with the stuff. Score another victory for the Sayeret Metkal, imho.

The uranium is either in Damona or at Los Alamos. Kim still has his money. The Boy President is embarrassed that his Russian radars don’t work, but he has his finder’s fee, and the Iranians are out several hundred million dollars. They suck: for the first time in a long time, the Rug Merchants got taken to the cleaners by someone smarter than them-the Koreans.

Eventually, Kim gets diplomatic recognition and a No Regime Change promise. I will bet you the Miami Dolphins First Round draft choice that Kim played ball with us. His price was steep, but he played ball.

You’ve gotta admit that the idea of the failure of Russian built radar systems (”don’t worry, it won’t work”) is appealing.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3456456,00.html

KhAmenei

For the power struggle in Iran that will be on the horizon when the old (reportedly quite unhealthy) America hating Ayotollah Khomenei kicks the bucket.

Iran is hardly a single, unified entity bent on the insane view of chaos, erasure of Israel and the return of the Mahdi.

http://www.pajamasmedia.com/2007/10/sick_on_lehrer.php

Meanwhile, the fact that Iran isn’t apparently yet weapons capable is rather amazing.

(might have been partially all that second rate nuclear “stuff” that Pakistan’s AQ Khan sold them. I remember when the Iranians complained about that.)

Amir Taheri (Iranian by birth) spells it out:

The revelation that the Islamic Republic began seeking a nuclear deterrent as early as 1988 is nothing new to seasoned Iran-watchers.

http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10072055.html

I do believe Iran has screwed up. Big time.

Semper Fi.