Jello wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:

In a stunning reversal of Bush administration conventional wisdom, a new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies concludes Iran shelved its nuclear weapons program over four years ago.

"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program," reads a declassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate key findings.

See? They have a nuclear program, therefore we need to bomb them!

I'm pretty amazed that even you can spin this that way. For once, this administration does something sane, and all you can do is scream that its really the opposite?

Absolutely nothing sane about it. At the time the Iranians discontinued the program, we weren't pressuring them. They stopped, and we started pushing for them to stop something they'd already done? If I'm the Iranians I look at the actions of the US as the actions of a rogue state run by a lunatic who has no idea what he's doing (as demonstrated by the complete shambles we've created on both the east and west borders of Iran), and who is now screaming "Stop something you've already stopped or we'll bomb you!"

No fiction writer could come up with this reality, it is too incompetent and insane to be plausible. And if you listened to Stephen Hadley this afternoon, they're still beating the drums.

RE: Political Radar: NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Years Ago