Another Embarrassment for America

New Intelligence finds that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Iran gave it up over four years ago. It is an embarrassment for the Bush Administration and for the United States. This thing keeps happening over and over. To the world, American must appear like the gang that can't shoot strait.

We went to war in Iraq because President Bush told us that Iraq had WMDS and was trying to get Atomic Weapons. That turned out to be not true and the President said, Oops intelligence got it wrong, too bad.  It was too bad a half a trillion dollars and almost 4,000 American fighting men are gone, not to mention tens of thousands wounded and almost one million Iraqis. I've got to say that's some "oops."

Now after spending, years telling us what a threat the Iranian nuclear weapons program is, we find it does not have one. Bush told us Iran with nukes might start World War III. Now, once again, the president is saying Oops, it looks like we got it wrong again.

Our President, not one to allow facts to get in the way of his thinking, says it makes no difference. In his press conference today, the President said Iran's nuclear program "...was a danger..." then (even though it did not have a nuclear program then) "...is a danger now..." (even thought it does not have one today) and "...will be a danger in the future..." (because it might get one).

Now many people think, including myself, that the "oops" explanation (that intelligence got it wrong) simply does not fly. I believe that Bush surely knew that Iraq probably did not have WMDs and was not trying to develop nuclear weapons. And it is reasonably clear that the President knew, at least sometime before he announced Iran would start WWIII, that it had given up its nuclear weapons program.

No matter what the truth is (Bush lied to us or he just got it wrong) it is a no win situation for America. America and our President simply look the fool. It is an embarrassment and a serious blow to our international credibility. What will our allies think the next time we tell them of a serious threat? Are we to be constantly seen as the "country that cried wolf?"

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