George Bush today ruled out a change in Washington's Iran policy following the declassification yesterday of a US intelligence report that concluded Tehran had abandoned its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
The US president denied the national intelligence estimate (NIE) - which said Tehran's determination to develop nuclear weapons "is less ... than we have been judging" - had undercut his administration's repeated assertions that Iran was building nuclear weapons.
"Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. And Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush told his first White House press conference in nearly seven weeks.
Five Questions Concerning the Latest NIE:
First, what intelligence is this assessment based upon?
Second, what has changed since 2005?
Third, how did the IC draw its line between a "civilian" nuclear program and a military one?
Fourth, how does the IC know that Iran has stopped its clandestine activities with respect to developing nuclear weapons?
Fifth, how does the IC know what motivated Iran’s alleged change in behavior?
And, using the Socratic method of reasoning, exactly how many times does one have to be wrong, to not ever be correct? And, of course, the reverse.
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