Scathing analysis of Bush having been caught lying about Iran's nuclear program

Bush is holding a press conference at 10am Eastern. He scheduled it before the NIE leaked, showing that he lied to the American people, yet again, in order to start a war with Iran. Let's take a stroll down memory lane and look at what George Bush had to say about Iran, when he knew that they had already halted their nuclear program:



Hmm. It actually seems that some reporters understand they've been had by Bush on Iran. Reuters headline: "Report contradicts Bush on Iran nuclear program."

A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.

Washington Post headline: "A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy."

President Bush got the world's attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III. But his stark warning came at least a month or two after he had first been told about fresh indications that Iran had actually halted its nuclear weapons program.

New York Times headline: "An Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran."

Rarely, if ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate here.

An administration that had cited Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons as the rationale for an aggressive foreign policy — as an attempt to head off World War III, as President Bush himself put it only weeks ago — now has in its hands a classified document that undercuts much of the foundation for that approach.

The impact of the National Intelligence Estimate’s conclusion — that Iran had halted a military program in 2003, though it continues to enrich uranium, ostensibly for peaceful uses — will be felt in endless ways at home and abroad.

Remember that just two months ago, 76 Senators accepted Bush's war-mongering approach to Iran when they voted for the Kyl-Lieberman resolution - legislation that many people, including us, think gives Bush the authorization to start yet another war with Iran. And now we find out that Bush was trying (yet again) to start a war based on a lie.

Here's the roll call vote on Kyl-Lieberman.