As Of Tuesday Night, Huckabee Still Hadn't Heard About NIE
Here's something Mike Huckabee want to do as he rises in the polls: Read a newspaper. Huckabee sat down last night with reporters, and it turns out he still hadn't heard about the National Intelligence Estimate showing that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Not only that, but Huckabee continued speaking about Iran in terms of them being about to acquire nuclear weapons, even after reporter David Paul Kuhn summarized the official findings for him.
"I don't know where the intelligence is coming from that says they have suspended the program or how credible that is versus the view that they actually are expanding it ..." Huckabee said. "And I've heard, the last two weeks, supposed reports that they are accelerating it and it could be having a reactor in a much shorter period of time than originally been thought."
Comments (10)
Madorsky wrote on December 5, 2007 9:20 AM:Wow...he's definitely bolstering his neo-con and fiscal con critics on lack of foreign policy experience.
Huckabee's biggest problem winning in Iowa and elsewhere may be that he just doesn't have a professional organization; this is great evidence of that.
Michael A wrote on December 5, 2007 9:33 AM:Why is this not surprising? Bush knew about it for 4 years and just found out "last week." These republicans are just way too funny.
Kefa wrote on December 5, 2007 9:41 AM:Well he'll fit right in if elected.
Anonymous wrote on December 5, 2007 10:06 AM:Hmm...someone else who doesn't react to new information.
TheraP wrote on December 5, 2007 10:11 AM:Hey.... when you're busy reading the bible....
Clay wrote on December 5, 2007 11:21 AM:Well, it says in Revelation that, in the end times, the army of Persia will be a mighty force assailing the tribe of Judah. Who needs an NIE when you have the complete word of God?
I can almost picture Hucks campaign HQ over the past few days proudly holding up newspapers and pointing at articles showing him surging, completely oblivious to the headline in the next column.
Also, this has a ring of familiarity:
"And I've heard, the last two weeks, supposed reports that they are accelerating it and it could be having a reactor in a much shorter period of time than originally been thought."
Bad news for Rudy, sounds like someone's been chatting with your foreign policy advisers. Could it be Huck's trying to woo Podhoretz?
After all, you know how it is with rats and sinking ships.
Liam wrote on December 5, 2007 12:17 PM:Huckabee has learned all he wants to learn from the Bible. He is a strict creationist believer. If it isn't in the Bible, he does not believe it, and does not need to read the newspapers.
He does not need no stinkin' updates. That would smack of him being willing to allow for some Evolution in his thinking.
ray wrote on December 5, 2007 1:37 PM:He was too busy reading the Bible; then again we wonder if God would have told him about the report. Huckabee is an Idiot!
Twila wrote on December 27, 2007 4:57 PM:Those who do not believe in evolotion do not participat in it
