Iran wants to play a critical role in defining the nature, policies and capabilities of the Iraqi regime. The central issue for Iran is not nuclear weapons but the future of Iraq.
The admission by the Bush Regime that Iran stopped pursuing its nuclear weapons program in 2003 may be their way of signaling that they are giving up on their grand scheme to invade Iran.The Hawks have been shot down, leaving a lame-duck president. The headline is that the spies are holding up their hands and saying they want to change their story- as they put it in this document: “Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.” And that is not just the view of the left here.
I talked to a former senior advisor to the White House who feels sick at the way in which all of this stuff has to be discussed openly, and fears that the Bush team has been fatally undermined on Iran by its own intelligence agencies. Revenge, perhaps?
The admission by the Bush Regime that Iran stopped pursuing its nuclear weapons program in 2003 may be their way of signaling that they are giving up on their grand scheme to invade Iran. Bush is a lame duck with little more than a year in office and has a hostile Democratic congress to deal with who do not even want to fund the current conflict in Iraq yet alone a new one in Iran.
Perhaps that has been the new Democratic Congress’ greatest triumph even as they have thus far failed to end the war in Iraq.
They have succeeded; it seems, in stopping a war with Iran. We should all stay vigilant.
If the administration somehow gets a reason for war with Iran that it thinks is compelling enough to sell, whether it is true or not, they will attempt to use it.