Did President Bush Threaten World War III Knowing Iran Had Halted Its Nuke Program?

Politicians choose their words carefully. Bill Clinton's famous concern for the definition of "is" stands as but one example.

At a press conference on October 17th, President Bush said, "I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

At the time, that seemed the oddest choice of words: "the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

Were we going to attack Iran if they knew how to make a nuke, rather than if they had built and were prepared to use it?

That seems a pretty low bar. Why such a low bar?

Now, we may know why the President set such a low threshold for starting a war. He may have already known that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago.

Did he know? Did he threaten Iran while keeping this information a secret from us? That is a question that the national media, if it is doing its job, will have to ask the President, and the President must answer the question: What did he know? When did he know it?

Comments

[hopeless277]

The 'national media'??? Really? Don't you mean the 'corporate media'? Yeah, they'll ask for us. Just like they asked about the Niger claim and the torture and all the OTHER outrages that Emporer Bush has visited upon this country. These 'journalists', especially Dancin' Dave 'Lil' Stretch' Gregory, all have shit for brains. With the exception of Helen Thomas, I doubt if you could come up with a pound of courage in the lot of 'em. They are paid to 'cover' for the president. To ask easy questions with easy answers. I believe in another age they were known a 'courtiers'. And for good reason. They 'court' the favor of the king. In this case, King Bush. The press in this country is a disgrace.

[Fez]

What did he know and when did he know it? Nothing and always.

[ceu]

"Did President Bush Threaten World War III Knowing Iran Had Halted Its Nuke Program?
Ummm....yeah.
Did you ever see anything quite so slimy (I haven't seen today's news conference by Bush) as Stephen Hadley yesterday saying that the US found out about the halt just last Tuesday? This administration thinks we are all just stupid as sin....

[Cautious]

"Did President Bush Threaten World War III Knowing Iran Had Halted Its Nuke Program?"

Gee. Ya think? He needs all the bogeymen he can find to keep America afraid.