No Nukes In Iran, Dubya Accused Of Lying

From the NY Times:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.

Senator Harry Reid said the assessment was “directly challenging some of this administration’s alarming rhetoric” on Iran. The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape the final year of the Bush administration, which has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy.

The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran is likely to keep its options open with respect to building a weapon, but that intelligence agencies “do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.”

During his press conference this morning, reporters blasted the president for invoking the horror of a third world war in recent speeches while knowing that Iran did not in fact have a nuclear weapons program.
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