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By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; A14

President Bush said Thursday that Iran has declared that it wants to be a nuclear power with a weapon to "destroy people," including others in the Middle East, contradicting the judgments of a recent U.S. intelligence estimate.

The president spoke in an interview intended to reach out to the Iranian public on the Persian new year and to express "moral support" for struggling freedom movements, particularly among youth and women. It was designed to stress U.S. support for Iran's quest for nuclear energy and the prospects that Washington and Tehran can "reconcile their differences" if Iran cooperates with the international community to ensure that the effort is not converted into a weapons program.

But most striking was Bush's accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003, a major reversal in the long-standing U.S. assessment.

"They've declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people -- some in the Middle East. And that's unacceptable to the United States, and it's unacceptable to the world," Bush told U.S.-funded Radio Farda, which broadcasts into Iran in Farsi.

Experts on Iran and nuclear proliferation said the president's statement was wrong. "That's as uninformed as [Sen. John] McCain's statement that Iran is training al-Qaeda. Iran has never said it wanted a nuclear weapon for any reason. It's just not true. It's a little troubling that the president and the leading Republican candidate are both so wrong about Iran," said Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. FULL ARTICLE=>

LC Editor’s Comment: As much as I hate to write that which follows, I shall. Mr. Bush could be 99 percent out of touch with anything outside of what Mr. Cheney and his other handlers want him to know. Or could it be that Mr. Bush does not have the mental capacity to comprehend what he needs to know to perform his job as president? Or could Mr. Bush be an advocate and practitioner of Adolph Hitler’s infamous “Big Lie” propaganda method? Take youu choice but in any case, it seems to me that even at this late date he, and Mr. Cheney, of course, need to be removed from office now by some legal means. If Mr. Bush can be declared mentally incompetent and removed by mental health workers, I would have no problem with that. But what about the vice president. Perhaps impeachment would be the way. The person that stands in the way of some solution to handling White House Madness is Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the person most worthy of the title Chief Obstructionist to Getting the U.S. Back Being a Constitutional Republic Again.

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