John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Manchester, NH 12/05/07

TRANSCRIPTION
MCCAIN: "Umm, I want to mention a just a couple of things with you very quickly. One, I'm sure you have seen that there is a new Intelligence Estimate, they call it the NIE, National Intelligence Estimate, concerning Iran and the state of their progress on Nuclear weapons. I haven't seen anything quite like that before, there probably has been. But uhh, there was really a reassessment that indicates that perhaps the Iranians are not as heavily engaged in development of nuclear weapons as we had previously thought.

"And, uhh, I would just like to know, what it is that information that we have that changed that Intelligence Estimate. I also would like to remind you that the Iranians still are supporting terrorist organizations, Hamas, Hezbollah. They are still dedicated to the extinction of the state of Israel. They are still providing the most lethal explosive devices to people who are coming into Iraq and killing young Americans with those devices.

"So, I hope that this is a sign of progress, that maybe they are not as dedicated to building nuclear weapons as we had previously supposed, but I don't think they have found themselves on the road to Damascus yet. So I think they are still a force that we need to contend with, which I do not see sharing our goals, our vision, our ideals, our principles, and our Judeo-Christian values."

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