U.S. Intelligence On Iran Is Faulty

In the months leading up to the Iraq war, the Bush administration released a lot of false and misleading information to bolster their desire to invade Iraq. We now know that Saddam did not have nuclear weapons and did not have a nuclear weapons program, but Bush and his cohorts made it sound as if a mushroom cloud over U.S. cities was inevitable and imminent.

Now they are trying to do the same thing with Iran. Everyone knows that Iran is enriching uranium, but the Bush administration has taken that a step further and is claiming that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. So far, there is absolutely no evidence that this is happening.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. government has been supplying the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with information about Iran's nuclear bomb program since 2002. One IAEA official says, "Since 2002, pretty much all the intelligence that's come to us has proved to be wrong." The IAEA says that although they are concerned about Iran building a bomb, there is absolutely no evidence that the Iranians have diverted enriched uranium to a bomb program.

We know that the U.S. has sent another carrier group to the Middle East region, and Seymour Hersh reports that a high-level group in the Pentagon is drawing up plans for an attack on Iran. This group has been ordered to draw up plans that could be put in motion within 24 hours of Bush giving the order.

Is Bush feeding the world faulty information to justify an impending attack on Iran, just as he did with Iraq? It certainly looks that way.

A rational person would know that we have already stretched our forces too thin with our continuing failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Bush is not a rational person. He is a "true believer" in the neocon cause. And "true believers" are not swayed by facts or the lack of facts.

We need only look at his track record to know that he is spreading lies about Iran to bolster his fervant desire to attack them. He says he wants to settle the matter diplomatically, but he said the same thing about Iraq. He was lying then, and he's lying now.