Could the Bush admin have the audacity to use the same deceptive tactics to win support for attacking Iran as they used for invading Iraq? It seems hard to believe that they would expect the American public to buy the Iran WMD story without hard evidence after what we know about the bogus Iraq WMD evidence.

Sadly, the Bush admin may try the same tactic, knowing that over half of Americans support him and will believe anything his adminstration tells them. We have seen the Bush admin repeat outright lies-over and over-and even when the lies are discovered to be just that--the majority of Americans choose to ignore the real truth and support the lies. It appears the reason for the public support is total gullibility or blind loyalty to Bush, but I wonder if it is more that the Bush supporters share his neocon policies and really don't care how Bush achieves those policies.

Report: Powell Based Iran Nuke Claim On Unvetted Source Claim
http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20041119


The Washington Post is reporting that Secretary of State Colin Powell relied on a single, unvetted source when he claimed Wednesday that he had new evidence thast Iran was developing a nuclear weapon. The report was entirely based on information provided by a source who approached US intelligence with 1,000 pages of documents that purportedly showed nuclear weapons drawings. One governmental official told the Washington Post that the CIA remains unsure about the authenticity of the documents and how they came into the informant's possession. Powell's comments came in direct contradiction to findings by the United Nations. The International Atomic Energy Association announced earlier this week it had seen no evidence that Iran was developing a nuclear weapons program.