The NIE, Democrats and lying eyes

United States troops are winning in Iraq, a fact that has the left scrambling in its endless campaign to destroy the legacy of President Bush and his justification for invading Iraq and toppling a murderous regime.

They think they have a winner in the latest National Intelligence Estimate.

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Not so fast, folks.

Let's pick this apart and present some original reporting.

The NIE summary has liberal outfits like VoteVets.org demanding congressional hearings on "What Did Bush Know And When Did He Know It?" and hoping to score more direct hits on the Bush administration's self-described intelligence failures.

But, as we journalists like to say: Consider the source.

First, the name of NIE itself gives us a clue about its accuracy. It is the National Intelligence ESTIMATE. This estimate has Democrats cheering alongside the Iranian regime that stones women and children to death. It also has a lot of holes in it and plenty of intelligence sources questioning the veracity of the estimate.

Sen. Harry Reid asked for the NIE report so he could change the subject about the counterterror tactics that have resulted in a dramatic downtick in military and civilian deaths in Iraq, proving that the surge is working.

It is a political document.

Sen. Reid wants to sow doubt about our country's commander in chief during wartime. Why? So the Democrats can retake the White House.

"I asked for it because I did not want another run-up that the president proved he was very good at doing beginning the Iraq war," Reid said. "They're pretty good at running a country up into a war. I wanted to make sure that we didn't do the same in Iran."

Three anti-Bush partisans authored Reid's report, which further hurts its credibility.

Reid-the-appeaser would rather sit down at the table with known liars and murderers than take decisive action, such as bombing Iran's nuclear facilities. Most Americans believe we should take them out, according to an October poll. But shameless surrender-crat Reid wants to change this opinion and is using our national intelligence sources to benefit Democrats.

The alleged sole source of some of the NIE information is an Iranian defector, but something doesn't smell right with this guy's stories. Kenneth Timmerman, an expert on Iran, wrote yesterday that "Washington has fallen for 'a deliberate disinformation campaign' cooked up by the Revolutionary Guards, who laundered fake information and fed it to the United States through Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers posing as senior diplomats in Europe."

Alireza Jafarzadeh, the Iranian expatriate who first revealed Iran's nuclear weapons program, said Revolutionary Guards Gen. Alireza Asgari has a questionable past and his information should not be trusted without independent verification.

"He is a dubious person," Jafarzadeh said an interview for this WorldNetDaily column.

Asgari is known as the "father of Hezbollah," which he helped create in the 1980s, at around the same time terrorists bombed U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. I covered the terrorist attack and saw firsthand the devastation Asgari's group exacted on Americans.

Sources inside Iran give Jafarzadeh "information that is actually opposite of that in the NIE report," he said.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. controls the nuclear weapons program, Iranian sources tell Jafarzadeh.

"These sources are reliable as they are responsible for revealing Iran's uranium enrichment program in Natanz in 2002, which triggered IAEA inspections," Jafarzadeh said.

The NIE report is flawed because it ignores the IRCG's power over the nuclear program.

"Any time you have military involvement in nuclear programs, you are talking about weapons," said Jafarzadeh.

Despite their glee, Reid and the Democrats have problems with their newly minted NIE report because they have been dead wrong on the war in Iraq and national security in general. And now they want us to believe them when it comes to a country that held Americans hostage and whose president wants to wipe Israel off of the map? It reminds me of the line from Eddie Murphy: "Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?"

I vote for the eyes.

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