Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. So no excuse for a surgical strike. Darn. But there you have it.
Not my opinion -- it's a National Intelligence Estimate representing the consensus view of the various U.S. intelligence agencies. Which means that all the demagogic bellicosity emanating from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, a discouragingly bipartisan coalition of presidential candidates and a devil's chorus of belligerent pundits is just that: demagogic bellicosity. Someday, Iran might build nukes, but for the past four years they haven't even been trying.
See the story in the New York Times (click here) or, if you don't want to believe that bastion of east coast intellectual snobbery, try the Washington Post (click here) or CNN (click here).
Any bets that this will silence the calls for bombing Iran?
Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 3 December 2007
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