The Daily Sandwich

"We have to learn the lesson that intellectual honesty is fundamental for everything we cherish." -Sir Karl Popper

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Replace q's with n's, and voila! New speech!

In the wake of a story about a retired Air Force Colonel who argued that we're already beginning military action against Iran, and the public outrage of the IAEA against an administration report on Iran's nuclear program that they claimed was filled with bogus intelligence, Bush spoke about Iran in front of the UN. And the speech sounded eerily similar to the line we heard in the runup to the invasion of Iraq.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, in particular, said a report by House Republicans contained "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated information."

"The dispute was a virtual rerun of the months before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq," Knight-Ridder reported.

Once again, the offices of Cheney and Rumsfeld are "receiving a stream of questionable information that originates with Iranian exiles," Knight-Ridder writes.

The head of the infamous Office of Special Plans, Abram Shulsky, now helms a new Iranian directorate at the Pentagon.

And once again, President Bush is addressing the UN General Assembly, calling for sanctions. "Iran must abandon its nuclear weapon ambitions," Bush said today. (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the UN tonight, skipped the speech.)