I hate to over-saturate the blog with purely political stuff, but this is what's popping up in front of me, and I think this particular story needs to be read by just about everybody. We already know that the Bush Administration (and their media arm, FOX "News") really wants a war with Iran. We know that the rhetoric has been cranked up. And we know that it somehow sounds very familiar.
Many blogs, and some political TV and radio shows have already pointed out that the drumbeat to an Iran war sounds virtually identical to the leadup to the Iraq War. And now, something else eerily familiar:
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No evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons program, experts say
WASHINGTON -- Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger ''World War III,'' experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.
Even his own administration appears divided about the immediacy of the threat. While Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney speak of an Iranian weapons program as a fact, Bush's point man on Iran, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, has attempted to ratchet down the rhetoric.
''Iran is seeking a nuclear capability . . . that some people fear might lead to a nuclear-weapons capability,'' Burns said in an interview Oct. 25 on PBS.
''I don't think that anyone right today thinks they're working on a bomb,'' said another U.S. official, who requested anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity. . .
In the drum up to war with Iran we've been lead to believe that they have the bomb & only "Chimpy McFlightsuit" is keeping them from nuking us & Israel. He is such a hero... and that swagger... I digress.
