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October Surprise, for Real

By Quin Hillyer on 10.15.12 @ 12:38PM

Just for the record: I fully expect an October Surprise this year. In fact, I am fairly certain what it will be: Iran will announce that it will stop uranium enrichment and allow “inspections.”

(Both moves will be temporary and with all sorts of conditions, but the temporariness and conditionality will become evident only AFTER the American elections. In the end, Iran will continue on its merry way developing nuke weapons, but only after throwing Obama a lifeline via this bogus “announcement.”)

The establishment media will play up this phony “accord” with every megaphone in its arsenal.

It’s gonna be a bumpy ride, folks.

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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

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