Today’s news on Iraqn:
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iran is working on ways to modify missiles to carry nuclear warheads.
Powell spoke as an Iranian exile group made dramatic new claims about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, including ongoing covert enrichment of uranium.
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“I have seen some information that would suggest that they have been actively working on delivery systems to deliver the warheads,” Powell told reporters during a refueling stop in Brazil, en route to Santiago, Chile. He didn’t give a date for the information.
Didn’t we already do this? A bunch of exiles said that the Big Mean Country had scary weapons, Powell argued that they were prepared to use them against, nobody believed us, we invaded, and we turned out to be wrong?
Is the press going to be so cowed as to just lap this up as readily as they lapped up the claims two years ago?
I’m particularly disappointed by Powell. I thought that he was done, to paraphrase John Stewart, being the White House’s monkey. I was wrong.