Team BushCo wants to investigate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's new president, because some of the 1979 hostages say they recognize him. Ahmadinejad denies involvement, the pro-war WaPO ran a story saying he was lobbying against an action at the US Embassy and the photo on the Friday's NYT front page was clearly not him but BushCo is taking the charges very seriously and will investigate. While we're at it, let's investigate US ties to bolstering Iran's nuclear program:
Lacking direct evidence, Bush administration officials argue that Iran's nuclear program must be a cover for bomb-making. Vice President Cheney recently said, "They're already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy."
Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.
Ford's team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium -- the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weapons builders.
I guess this will replace "he gassed his own people" in Team BushCo's "How to Start a War" playbook.
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