Speaking at a White House press conference today, Mr. Bush said he saw the report as "a warning signal" of a continuing threat from Iran, and he insisted that it vindicated his administration's "carrots and sticks" approach to the Iranian nuclear question because Iran had halted its weapons program.

"I still feel strongly that Iran's a danger," Mr. Bush said, in his first comments on the report. He added: "I think it is very important for the international community to recognize the fact that if Iran were to develop the knowledge that they could transfer to a clandestine program, it would create a danger for the world."

He said that he had learned of the new intelligence findings only last week, and that no one in the intelligence community had urged him to step back from his tough warning, made in October, that a nuclear Iran could pose a danger of a "World War III."

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This is the thing about Bush and his machine. He completely stone-facedly inverts what something means without batting an eye. Case in point: a new report comes out saying that Iran had stopped developing nuclear weapons some time ago, rebutting multiple assertions from Bush and Co. about nuclear armageddon being brought on by Iran. Good news, say most folks. Maybe they aren't as crazy as we thought.


Bush comes out and says the report is a warning signal. "The enemy stopped making weapons" is warning signal??? WTF is UP with this dude? The only people I know who see the world in quite so inverted a fashion are in an extreme posture of cranio-colonic intraposition.

Man.


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