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As predicted, the warmongering mouthpieces are already on the case. Atrios picks up this panicky outburst from the ever-execrable Howard Kurtz, who performs a remarkable pirouette on the subject. Kurtz, one of the most slatheringly pro-war waterboys of the age, says you can't trust this new report on Iran; after all, the intelligence agencies "were obviously flat wrong about Saddam's WMD."
Actually, as we now know, the intelligence agencies offered many caveats about the "evidence" for Saddam's non-existent WMD before Bush launched the war of aggression against Iraq. Some of us knew about those caveats before the war, because they were sometimes reported by mainstream newspapers — such as Kurtz's employer, the Washington Post. However, such facts were always buried about 15 or 20 paragraphs into a story, or else the story itself was buried 15 or 20 pages into the paper. So I suppose there's a chance that a semi-literate putz like Kurtz never saw them. (For more on the deliberate subterfuge involved, see "The Deceivers.") In any case, we are obviously going to be treated to the delicious spectacle of ideologues and apparatchiks revising themselves in accordance with latest twist of the Party line. "Comrade Editor! I have just finished the assigned article on the evil of Adolf Hitler!" "What? You swine! Do you not know that Hitler is our honored ally now? Guards! Take this terrorist wrecker to the Lubyanka!"
Meanwhile, the White House has already shown what it will do with the NIE report: lie about it. Bush's national security adviser, the Uriah Heepish Stephen Hadley, was trotted out to say that far from showing that Bush and his minions have been lying through their teeth for years about the non-existent threat of Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program, the report is actually a vindication of Bush's strategy....because it shows that all of the pressure that Washington has been putting on Tehran for the past four years somehow, er, magically induced the Iranians to go back in time and put the brakes on any arms programs in 2003. The truth, of course, is that nothing the Bush Administration has done in the past four years has made the slightest bit of difference to Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program — because the program did not, er, exist during the time of what Hadley's calls Bush's "successful" strategy.
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