President Bush warned today that Iran remained a threat despite an intelligence assessment that it had halted a covert program to develop nuclear weapons four years ago, as the administration struggled to salvage a diplomatic process now in disarray.
Once again facing criticism over the handling — and meaning — of intelligence reports, Mr. Bush said the new assessment underscored the need to intensify international efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
He said Iran could not be entrusted with acquiring even the scientific knowledge to enrich uranium for peaceful civilian use, explicitly declaring for the first time what has been an underlying premise of the Bush administration’s policy. He also appeared to rule out any new diplomatic initiative with the current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“Look, Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous, if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon,” Mr. Bush said, sounding defensive at times, during a news conference dominated by questions about the assessment, known as a National Intelligence Estimate. “What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?”
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
George W. Bush is a Big Fat Liar
This man is simply not capable of telling the truth! The facts are in, yet Bush continues his mantra about Iran and nuclear weapons.
Would someone wake me when it's 2009!
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Thank you so much for posting this. I heard part of the news conference this morning and his continued denial of the reality that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program was sickening. It's as if he says "I don't care what the report says, he's till dangerous and everything is still on the table."
Bush is the only one who is still dangerous, here. Fuck Bush. I too can't wait for 2009 to come along.
Mauigirl - so true!
California Guy - I agree, and welcome to Yikes! Thanks for posting.
BAC
I still think the NIE report was the intelligence community's way of saying that they would not go along with W's and Cheney's excellent plan to bomb the shit out of Iran. And that is a very very good thing. If that is true, the W has been neutered (not that he had much to neuter in the first place).
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