"Outrageous and Dishonest"

Here we go again. Junta operatives on the House Intel Committee have written a report on Iran's nuclear program that fulfills all the fondest wishes of the coldest of cold-blooded NeoCons. Iran is bad! It is on the verge of creating a nuclear threat to everyone, including babies and puppies!

Of course, it's all fiction. It's typical of the NeoCon's perverted thinking: start with a conclusion and work backward to gather the evidence.

One object of their ire is the IAEA, because those bastards have had the temerity to be right every time they say something. Like about the Iraqi WMD - so there was nothing there. Why let that spoil a war? What good is being right if it doesn't get thousands of people killed?

Officials of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a letter that the report contained some "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements."

Of course it does! This isn't freakin' Europe. Junta loyalists don't walk around spouting facts. They don't want facts - they want conclusions.

And they've concluded that Iran must be dealt with. But not talked to - talking to people is some how rewarding, like when you visit your sister in prison - or the other way around. You can feel the love, even across prison bars - and Iran must know that we don't love them.

So we need to get our best guy on this right away. How about the lone staffer who hates Iran the most and is willing to say anything to get us to nuke them?

Privately, several intelligence officials said the committee report included at least a dozen claims that were either demonstrably wrong or impossible to substantiate.

"This is like prewar Iraq all over again," said David Albright, a former nuclear inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. "You have an Iranian nuclear threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors."

The committee report, written by a single Republican staffer with a hard-line position on Iran, chastised the CIA and other agencies for not providing evidence to back assertions that Iran is building nuclear weapons.

What if that same lunatic was the guy writing the report on North Korea? Wouldn't that rock? Would it not?

The committee is working on a separate report about North Korea that is also being written principally by Fleitz. A draft of the report, provided to The Post, includes several assertions about North Korea's weapons program that the intelligence officials said they cannot substantiate, including one that Pyongyang is already enriching uranium.

The intelligence community believes North Korea is trying to acquire an enrichment capability but has no proof that an enrichment facility has been built, the officials said.

Thank goodness these guys are making us safer and safer every day. The more countries they lie about, the more we can invade!