Bush keeps preemptive military strike option “on the table” despite the NIE
via Las Vegas Sun:
Bush said the new conclusion - contradicting earlier U.S. assessments - would not prompt him to take off the table the possibility of pre-emptive military action against Iran. Nor will the United States change its policy of trying to isolate Iran diplomatically and punish it with sanctions, he said.
As many are starting to ask, was Bush’s past statements about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program a red herring to conceal other motives for the administration’s gratuitous belligerence?
Irancove @ December 5, 2007