George W. Bush is still itching for a fight, even after he was caught lying about a nuclear weapons program that even American government spies have concluded no longer exists. Bush seems to remain confident that he can still sell a war against Iran. He’s counting on the American public not paying attention to detail.
If you actually look at the details just a little bit, and take a minute to think about them, the absurdity of Bush’s claims becomes plain. Consider two Associated Press articles released this morning.
From the first article: “Bush said Iran funds terrorist extremists, undermines stability in Lebanon, sends arms to the hardline Taliban regime, intimidates its neighbors with alarming rhetoric and defies the United Nations by refusing to be open about its nuclear program.”
From the second article: “Iran’s leaders agreed to answer all remaining questions about their country’s past nuclear activities within four weeks in talks with the U.N.’s chief nuclear inspector, his spokeswoman said Sunday. The spokeswoman also said International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei received new information on Iran’s ‘new generation of centrifuges’ — a priority as the agency tries to establish how far advanced Iran is in developing the technology, which could be used in a weapons program.”
Even putting aside the bizarre comment from the first article about Iran sending arms to the “hardline Taliban regime” – a regime that hasn’t existed for over six years now – the hype from Bush is plainly contradicted by reality.
How can George W. Bush claim that Iran is refusing to be open about its nuclear energy program at the very same time that the United Nations Atomic Energy is announcing that Iran has agreed to settle all remaining questions about its program within four weeks?
Bush isn’t particularly finicky about reality, so what would appear to most people as a glaring contradiction is only registered by his brain as a passing shadow, or a chill in the air that can soon be forgotten.
I beg the American public, please, not to share George W. Bush’s sensibility about the facts. Pay attention. There is no global threat from Iran, and there still won’t be even if Bush claims one hundred times that the opposite is true.
“he had a breakfast of pancakes and bacon with troops of the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain”
Bush is publicly eating pork in a Moslem nation? I wonder if he would do that in Israel.
Yeah, this shows how insensitive the whole Bush foreign policy is to cultural factors, and by extension, his attitude toward US too!