Article of Interest

Front page of the Post today: Iran is judged 10 years from nuclear bomb (registration required, I'm sure).

The gist of the article - the Bush Administration is hyping the threat Iran's nuclear activities pose. Why? The National Intelligence Estimate says Iran is 10 years away from the bomb.

Where else have you heard about the NIE? Oh, that's right - in all the articles about how the Administration used the NIE's conclusions about Iraq's weapons programs to take us to war there, even though it was wrong.

What a double standard. All we have heard about is how the NIE got it wrong about Iraq. Now it clearly got it right about Iran? Sorry, I'd rather take Iran seriously now, than wake up two years from now when they have the bomb.

Other insightful commentary about this article here and here.