{"id":68,"date":"2007-12-03T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2007\/12\/iran-and-nukes-fool-me-once-shame-on-you-fool-me-twice-shame-on-me.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T13:15:52","slug":"iran-and-nukes-fool-me-once-shame-on-you-fool-me-twice-shame-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2007\/12\/iran-and-nukes-fool-me-once-shame-on-you-fool-me-twice-shame-on-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Nukes: Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice Shame on Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush argued in October, 2007, that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to &#8220;World War III.&#8221;   Vice President <a title=\"More articles about Dick Cheney.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/dick_cheney\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Dick Cheney<\/a> warned of &#8220;serious consequences&#8221; if Tehran did not stop trying to build nukes.  THIS TIME we&#8217;re right they said.  THIS TIME we can be trusted.<br \/>\nFor that remnant of our most stupid citizens who still feel there is truth somewhere to be found in the George Bush administration or the Republican Party, today must be a very disappointing day indeed.<br \/>\nIt turns out that all 16 America&#8217;s intelligence agencies have decided that <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">in 2003<\/span> Iran had abandoned plans to produce nukes.  Their conclusion was &#8220;We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003 Teheran ended its nuclear weapons program.&#8221;  You can download the full text by going to Mark Kleiman&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/archives\/iran_\/2007\/12\/shorter_iran_nukes_nie.php\">here<\/a>.  2013 is the soonest our spy agencies think Iran could have a bomb.<br \/>\nFor those who need reminding (and to be honest, I did) the push for upping American military pressure on Iran because it was supposedly trying to produce nukes came AFTER 2003.  You can read about the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03cnd-iran.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush argued in October, 2007, that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to &#8220;World War III.&#8221; Vice President Dick Cheney warned of &#8220;serious consequences&#8221; if Tehran did not stop trying to build nukes. 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