Still, Bush has maintained that Iran is still a threat and that they are operating a covert program to develop a nuclear arsenal. He says that this report is a sign that the international community needs to ramp up its efforts unearth such a program and that the responsibility lies at the door of the Iranian leadership to prove that they are willing to cooperate and cease such production.
New York Times reports, Bush said the Iranians had a "strategic choice" to make - to fully acknowledge past nuclear activities and suspend their uranium enrichment work, or to "continue on a path of isolation that is not in the nest interests of the Iranian people." He added, "The choice is up to the Iranian regime."
[Iranian President] Ahmadinejad said the intelligence report's conclusions had come about as a result of Iran's resistance to international pressure.
"This report tried to extract America from its impasse but it also is a declaration of the Iranian people's victory against great powers," Ahmadinejad said in a rally today in the western provice of Illam, the ISNA student news reported. "With the help of God, our people have resisted, are resisting and will resist until the end," he said, referring to Western effort to make Iran stop enriching uranium to make nuclear fuel. "They are disappointed that they cannot make you compromise even an iota," he added.
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This all sounds strangely familiar. Recall the ramp up to the Iraq invasion in 2002 when the Bush administration was insistent, even after UN inspectors maintained otherwise, that Iraq was housing weapons of mass destruction. The problem with this stance is that it puts the accused in an inexorable position: You cannot disprove a double negative. How do you prove that you are not doing something without incriminating yourself?
If the US wants war with Iran, it is going to have it.
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