IN THE NEWS
The US government is arguing that the nuclear threat from a Middle Eastern country is greater than the the International Atomic Energy Agency would say. OK, the part of the US government in question is the House Intelligence Committee, not the White House, and the country is Iran, not Iraq.
The nuclear threat this time around is a lot more serious than it was with Iraq. However, the important question is, why is any part of the US government getting into another noisy, public argument with the IAEA? As Steven Taylor at Poliblogger said today:
While I am hardly going to say that UN is perfect, I will say this:
despite all the criticism that was levelled at al Baradei and the UN
WMD inspectors in the build-up to the Iraq invasion, we have to face
facts, the UN guys were right about the Iraq’s WMD capabilities and the
administration and their allies were wrong. Indeed, fantastically wrong.
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