{"id":2105,"date":"2008-04-28T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2008-04-28T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:57:53","slug":"syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\">The hardest part about the recent briefing on the Israeli bombing of a suspected Nuclear Reactor in Syria is that there have been so many half truths and outright lies that our index of suspicion is through the roof. Here&#8217;s a set if links to some of the relevant documents:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dni.gov\/interviews\/20080424_interview.pdf\"><strong>The Briefing:<\/strong><\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ah6RmcewUM&#038;feature=related\"><strong>The Video &#8211; Part 1<\/strong><\/a>:          <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A9HL3NVLZyo&#038;feature=related\"><strong>The Video &#8211; Part 2<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2008\/04\/27\/syriana\/\"><strong>Professor Foland&#8217;s Assessment<\/strong><\/a>: A visiting [blogger] scientist&#8217;s opinion posted on <font color=\"#003020\"><strong>emptywheel<\/strong><\/font>&#8216;s blog.         <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"241\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/al_kibar.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">We&#8217;re all so jaded by their earlier lies that it&#8217;s hard to look at all of this without suspicion. But that&#8217;s not going to be clarified by a blogger living in a log cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. It sure looks dangerous to me [see above from my Google Earth]. There is a big building<strong>[1]<\/strong> in the middle of the Syrian desert near the Euphrates River with what looks like a connecting pipeline.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"583\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/al_kibar_2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">In the video, the bombed out version<strong>[2]<\/strong> certainly contains a circular structure compatible with a nuclear reactor. After it was bombed, the Syrians demolished the remaining ruins<strong>[3]<\/strong>, covered them over with dirt<strong>[4]<\/strong>, and built a metal skinned building on the site<strong>[5-6]<\/strong>. It looks pretty reactor-like to me. Most bloggers are going down the skeptical path &#8211; Why release the photos? Were they retouched? Why didn&#8217;t Israel or the U.S. go to the U.N. [answer: They don&#8217;t believe in the U.N.]? But all of that&#8217;s too much second guessing for me. Maybe this time, the intelligence was right and they played it sort of straight.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">The notion of this Administration playing it straight is comforting &#8211; but unlikely. I would suggest this scenario:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>Dick Cheney:<\/strong> Look Mr. President, if we release these pictures, maybe it will wake the American people up to how dangerous these people [Arabs] are and they&#8217;ll get out of our way and support our bombing Iran too!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part about the recent briefing on the Israeli bombing of a suspected Nuclear Reactor in Syria is that there have been so many half truths and outright lies that our index of suspicion is through the roof. Here&#8217;s a set if links to some of the relevant documents: The Briefing: The Video &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}