Bush Falsely Claims Iran "Declared" It Wants Nukes "to Destroy People"

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Bush Falsely Claims Iran "Declared" It Wants Nukes "to Destroy People"

Posted by Ben Armbruster, Think Progress at 12:11 PM on March 21, 2008.

The experts have called Bush's claim "troubling" and "as uninformed as McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda"


During a recent interview with Radio Farda, a U.S. government-run radio service that broadcasts into Iran in the Farsi language, President Bush falsely claimed that Iran “declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people.”

However, the the U.S. intelligence community disagrees. A National Intelligence Estimate on Iran released last December stated unequivocally that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. But also, Iran has never “declared” its intention to acquire nuclear weapons and in fact, it has publicly stated the opposite:

–”Iran has repeatedly denied seeking nuclear warheads, and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious edict in 2005 forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons.”

–Iran expert and former Bush administration official Suzanne Maloney: “The Iranian government is on the record across the board as saying it does not want a nuclear weapon."

–Non-proliferation expert Joe Cirincione: “Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. It’s just not true.“

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[Kurovski]

1. Is there any kind of turd Bush won't serve on a silver platter ?

You'd think you'd get used to all the moronic lying after seven years, but you just never quite do.

[dkf]

2. That is why when people lie we need to disqualify them from being

President.

Hillary is looking bad in this department also.

Sigh.

[Mountainman]

4. Look, go to GD primaries please! Keep us pure from that shit!

[CJCRANE]

3. We call it lying. The neocons call it "creating reality" nt

[RedCappedBandit]

5. lol @ creating reality

:hi:

[bdamomma]

7. or re writing history through their PNAC agenda

they all need their a$$es handed to them, if this despicable group of thugs were in any other country they would have been long gone, what is stopping us???

[Hissyspit]

6. Bush wants to destroy people. n/t

[bdamomma]

8. he is a very defiant prick isn't he???

[Hissyspit]

10. The prick and the dick, yeah. n/t

[Karenina]

9. Using YOU as cover

he and his cronies ARE DESTROYING PEOPLES.

TODAY AND EVERY DAY AROUND THE GLOBE.

[HuffleClaw]

11. they probably thought nobody on this side of the pond would notice

really. they are THAT disconnected with reality.