Fear-mongering idiot

With the latest National Intelligence Estimate stating the Iran shelved its nuclear (or nucular if you must) weapons program in 2003, can we please stop all of this talk that the Iranian regime is somehow an existential threat to us? Pretty please with sugar on top? Oh who am i kidding...

Bush said Tuesday that he only learned of the new intelligence assessment last week. But he portrayed it as valuable ammunition against Tehran, not as a reason to lessen diplomatic pressure.

"To me, the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) provides an opportunity for us to rally the international community — to continue to rally the community — to pressure the Iranian regime to suspend its program [Ed. note – they did, in 2003, like the report says]" the president said. "What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons program."

He also asserted that the report means "nothing's changed," focusing on the previous existence of a weapons program and not addressing the discrepancy between his rhetoric and the disclosure that weapons program has been frozen for four years.

Bush said he is not troubled about his standing, about perhaps facing a credibility gap with the American people. "No, I'm feeling pretty spirited — pretty good about life," Bush said.

"I have said Iran is dangerous, and the NIE doesn't do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world."

So let me get this straight. Before the report was issued, Bush thought Iran had a nuclear weapons program. Then, the new report makes it pretty clear that they do not and yet that changes nothing. Or to put it another way, Iran is just as dangerous with or without nuclear weapons because they still know how to make one? It appears that Bush’s diplomatic solution is for Iran to unlearn how to make a nuke or else. Not only is that mind-blowingly stupid, it makes no fucking sense. Let's all pray that we can get through the next year without W starting another war.

Worst. President. Ever.