George Bush's rhetoric concerning Iran for the past six months is a mirror image of his rhetoric concerning Iraq during the run up to that war. In the second instance, Bush claimed that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program; but they had not. With Iran he said they were building nuclear weapons. However, we found out in the NIE report released just last week that they stopped that in 2003 when they froze the program. That was over four years ago.
What the news media failed to pick up on is that from 2001 to 2003, Iran was working to produce nuclear weapons and Bush was silent. Instead, he was attacking Iraq. The Los Angeles Times reported that when Bush came to office he was totally disinterested in Iran, this according to a CIA official. In fact, the CIA had made up a large Iran task force of nearly 100 officers and analysts by the end of the Clinton administration. When Bush took office, it shrank to fewer than a dozen officers. Those resources were shifted to other targets by Bush. It went from being focused on Iran to being switched to Iraq.
The NIE report released last week now catches Mr. Bush in another lie. He said he did not know till a few days ago that Iran froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003. This guy has lost all respect for the office of the President. He now wants to change the subject on Iran so he is trying to demand that they reveal all their covert activity. Mr. Bush should demand Israel, India, and Pakistan reveal all their covert activity of their nuclear weapons program as well. Their leaders are also unstable.
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And what do you think of Obadiah Shoher's arguments against the peace process ( samsonblinded.org/blog/we-need-a-respite-from-peace.htm )?
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