Wag The Dog: March To War Won’t Stop Iranian Nuke Program Says Former Iraqi Nuke Worker

Posted Jan 24, 2012 by Howard Altman

Updated Jan 24, 2012 at 09:31 AM

With Iran once again a hot topic in the GOP debate held last night at the University of South Florida, here’s another in a series of essays.

Interestingly enough, this one, by Imad Khadduri, who worked on the Iraqi nuclear weapons program, hits on the campaign rhetoric, but was written well before the debate.

Wag The Dog

Iran is a long-winded versatile negotiator that has out maneuvered the US, the IAEA and Israel. They are steadily moving ahead, despite all threats, with their plans. They will not stop.
On the other hand, it will be extremely destructive and genocidal (for the Israeli people and for the people in the region) for Israel to unilaterally attack Iran. One would not exclude their foolishness in this regard. Unfortunately for the US, with the constant blaring propaganda blitz of AIPAC and the ignorant posturing of the Republican candidates and the cowering of Obama vis-a-vis this two-pronged vicious campaign, the tail is visibly wagging the dog.

The above reasoning might not be ‘intellectual’ enough, but I believe that the Iranians, if they learned anything from the 1991 war on Iraq, is that a tight internal security on their nuclear personnel (despite their loss of four junior scientists over the past two years to Israeli Mossad assassinations) does assure them that the foreign hostile Intelligence agencies (CIA, MI6, Mossad, etc..) will not be able, with all of their satellite surveillances and especially because of the lack of human Intel inside Iran’s nuclear community (due to Iranian security like that was under Saddam), to comprehend the true scope of their nuclear program. They keep guessing.

Khadduri, author of the book “Iraq’s Nuclear Mirage: Memoirs and Delusions,” worked on the Iraq nuclear weapons program beginning in 1981 and left Iraq for Canada in the late 1990s. Before the invasion of Iraq, Khadduri argued that, contrary to what the Bush administration was claiming, the Iraqi nuclear weapons program had been dismantled. For the past six years, he has been working at Qatar Foundation.

Next up: Mike Pheneger, a retired US Army colonel who served as Deputy Director of Intelligence for US Central Command and Director of Intelligence for US Special Operations. Command