Partyin' Like It's <s>1999</s> 2003
They say history repeats itself. Well with Bush, that repetition comes in only 3 years U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous and dishonest,” according to a letter obtained by Reuters. The letter recalled clashes between the IAEA […]
They say history repeats itself. Well with Bush, that repetition comes in only 3 years
U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous and dishonest,” according to a letter obtained by Reuters.
The letter recalled clashes between the IAEA and the Bush administration before the 2003 Iraq war over findings cited by Washington about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that proved false, and underlined continued tensions over Iran’s dossier.
Sent to the head of the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Intelligence by a senior aide to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, the letter said an August 23 committee report contained serious distortions of IAEA findings on Iran’s activity.
The letter said the errors suggested Iran’s nuclear fuel program was much more advanced than a series of IAEA reports and Washington’s own intelligence assessments have determined.
It said the report falsely described Iran to have enriched uranium at its pilot centrifuge plant to weapons-grade level in April, whereas IAEA inspectors had made clear Iran had enriched only to a low level usable for nuclear power reactor fuel.
It isn’t disturbing that Bush would choose to lie about Iran- after all, what can we actually expect from our President? What is absolutley absurd is the fact that we are doing this again, when our level of trust received from the rest of the world is dismal at best. We lied going into Iraq. Us on the left knows that and the rest of the world knows that. Still Bush flat out lies to the American people and the world and gets to keep his job. So how does he repay us? He tries to lie us into war again.
After all the 9/11 look backs this week, I have been stuck with one thought in my mind. If we had another 9/11 style attack, would we get a world supporting us like we did in 2001? I want to say yes, but my heart and mind tell me no. I feel we would end up getting a world giving us the proverbial “I told you so”.
