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February 08, 2005

Neocons Kay-O'ed on Iran

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There is an eerie similarity to the events preceding the Iraq war. The International Atomic Energy Agency has announced that while Iran now admits having concealed for 18 years nuclear activities that should have been reported to the IAEA, it is has found no evidence of a nuclear weapons program. Iran says it is now cooperating fully with international inspections, and it denies having anything but a peaceful nuclear energy program.

Vice President Cheney is giving interviews and speeches that paint a stark picture of a soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Iran and declaring that this is something the Bush administration will not tolerate. Iranian exiles are providing the press and governments with a steady stream of new "evidence" concerning Iran's nuclear weapons activities. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that Iran will not be allowed to use the cover of civilian nuclear power to acquire nuclear weapons, but says an attack on Iran is "not on the agenda at this point." U.S. allies, while saying they share the concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions, remain determined to pursue diplomacy and say they cannot conceive of any circumstance that would lead them to use military force. And the press is beginning to uncover U.S. moves that seem designed to lay the basis for military action against Iran.

Now is the time to pause and recall what went wrong with the assessment of Iraq's WMD program and try to avoid repeating those mistakes in Iran.

Clearly it was some anti-American, left-wing wacko who hates George W. Bush and wants to see America destroyed by terrorists.

The author? David Kay, former leader of the Iraq Survey Group searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Kay has the character and intellectual honesty to admit he was had with regard to Iraq and doesn't want to see Americans tricked into yet another foolish and destructive foreign adventure in Iran.

Would that others who supported the war were as upright as Kay. Instead they blithely go on supporting it, assuring us that the weapons are now in Syria and that an election of dubious validity was reason enough to sacrifice American and Iraqi lives and make more enemies for us.

Kay had better watch his back. The neocons will be gunning for him.

Posted by Mike Tennant at February 8, 2005 04:21 PM

Comments

Cheney can make all the speeches he wants. When you have no credibility left people don't listen. Even with Republicans in control of congress I don't see any way a war resolution to attack Iran could pass.

Posted by: Ali_Massoud [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 12, 2005 01:36 PM

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