Everyone now knows that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Bush ordered prepared in the summer of 2002 to "justify" the preemptive invasion and occupation of Iraq was – to put it politely – a crock [pdf]. It relied heavily on disinformation –...
While the European Union's Javier Solana and Iran's Ali Larijani were making "good progress" toward an agreement that "will provide objective guarantees [to the EU] that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes" that "will equally provide firm...
By September 2002 every would-be mover and shaker in our nation's capital knew that Gulf War II would begin shortly after President Bush could claim, however implausibly, that international "diplomacy" had failed to get Saddam Hussein to give up his pursuit of nuclear...
Is it true that President Bush’s recent speech to the UN General Assembly means he no longer intends to use Iran’s "defiance" of a resolution by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a resolution by the UN Security Council...
Last year our intelligence community produced – at the request of Congress – a National Intelligence Estimate, which, inter alia, addressed Iran's nuclear programs. Although that 2005 NIE was highly classified, Dafna Linzer reported, "A major U.S....
Last week, the Secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency formally protested "outrageous and dishonest" accusations made by members of the Cheney Cabal about Iran’s Safeguarded nuclear programs. Interestingly, the "radioactive fallout" from a previous...
Ever since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the United Nations and its enforcement agency – the Security Council – has more often than not thwarted what the neo-crazies wanted to do. In particular, in 2002 the Security Council refused to sanction Bush's...
Last year, President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be Ambassador to the United Nations never even made it out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Opposition to Bolton’s confirmation was expressed formally to the Committee – by former...
This year, Bonkers Bolton and his Gang of Three (Brits, French, Germans) have managed to get the other members of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors and the United Nations Security Council to commit assisted suicide, seriously undermining –...
