IRAN: Bush has nothing to offer but scare tactics - by Marianne Means
Bush stubbornly refuses to admit that the Iranian menace has changed. He had been told of the new information in August by national intelligence director Mike McConnell but went ahead anyway to beat the drums of war by raising the specter of World War III with Iran. Without the war scares, you see, what does he have to offer? The public has hit the mute button on him. Without scare tactics, his popularity would be even lower than its present 30 percent. And he was, after all, accustomed to a Central Intelligence Agency under the thumb of Vice President Dick Cheney, famous for seeing the worst in everything. Bush claimed not to know the details of the report until recent days. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Joe Biden said he didn't believe Bush's excuse and that if Bush believes nothing has changed in the wake of the intelligence report, he is in denial.
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