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  Okay, so the NIE report finally came out and after being picked over by Bush goons for "language issues" it STILL says that Iran has given up their nuclear weapons program as early as 2003 and shows no signs of returning to it.

Why does the National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley say that the NIE report “confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons.” ?

    Lying to the public I can understand.  Trying to spin things in their favor I can understand, but asking us to believe that denying Iran has a nuclear weapon program really means they are in danger of getting nuclear weapons is so far away from reality that I have got to believe that the Whitehouse has legalized drug use...... but only inside the Whitehouse.  Iran is now a threat simply because SOMEDAY MAYBE they MIGHT have nuclear weapons.

   But wait.... wasn't it the NIE report that said that Hussein had biological and chemical weapons and was running flat out with a nuclear development program???  I see what they're doing.  The Whitehouse is taking using a different strategy.  On the assumption that the NIE is a bunch of incompetent dingbats, they have decided to simply assume the opposite of whatever the NIE report says, making the NSA's statement technically correct.  If the NIE report is wrong, we have no idea what Iran is doing.  They could be juggling live chickens, or painting coconuts to look like George Bush.  Obviously we need to get those bastards before they do something really dastardly.

  Oh, what a world we live in.