Iran: the cat's out of the bag!

The entire US intelligence community of 16 agencies have come to a single consensus--an 'x'axis of evil state' Iran had halted its nucelar weapons programme in 2003, and indications, it seems, point to the a common feeling that Teheran has not again given the green light to resume it.
Vice-president Dick Cheney fought a rear-guard action to delay the intelligence agencies findings but to no avail. The report has had the effect of a bombshell at home and abroad. The false walls of neo-conservatives' Jericho are crumbling. Only Israeli intelligence challenge the report's conclusions. And for obvious reasons, if Iran is pursuing the path of peaceful use of nuclear energy, a laser beam of questions intensely focusses on the Israeli stockpile of nuclear weapons. Perceptive eyes on the world press last week would've noted that a recently declassified document from the Nixon archives talks of Israel's nuclear arsenal, Nixon's displeasure of Israel having the bomb, Kissenger's counselling him to turn a blind eye on the matter even though Tel Aviv may have illegally bought America's fissionable material, thereby not antagonising the wealthy American Jewish community which would cost Republicans votes and monies, and agree that Washington would say nothing on the condition that Israel keep its nuclear stockpiling a secret. Today, Iran has become a major challenger to Israeli hegemony in the Middle East and president Ahmednijad the personification of evil; this explains Israel's hostility towards Iran but that wasn't always so. Read Yale University Press' 2007 'Treacherous alliance: secret dealings of Israel, Iran, & the US' by Trita Passi for a good overview. But we digress.r
The US intelligence communities report again underscores the metaphysical foundations of George W. Bush's foreign policy, a policy based on Alice-in-Wonderland triumphalism, mendacity, distorsions of truth, hard-nosed nastiness. We all know about the lies which have landed in the quagmire which is Iraq, and now we learn about the deceitfulness in turning a docile American public to drink again from the trough of war and this time against Iran. Memories in America have a life of a half-second. Who remembers that infamous CIA report in the early Reagan years on how powerful the Soviet Union was becoming whilst the arms-starved United States was falling behind in the arms race? In the end the report was repudiated for trickery and today we see the same dynamics alive and breathing hotly in Bush Iran policy.
Since no one reads Shakespeare much today, at the end of Henry IV, part 2, Henry's father ssardonically advises his son that without war, there is no good governance: 'Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels'. Translation, keep the American people's minds looking abroad so that they won't catch on as to the skulduggery you're doing at home. Seizing on the panic created by 11 September, Mr. Bush & his neo-conservative cohort have clared the playing field for war abroad and immiseration at home by cheating the American people out of social services and education and general good health and welfare for the military state. Today Mr. Bush & company have been caught in the 'big lie', but a feckless press and weak-kneed opposition in the houses of Congress, and a largely apathetic public bought off by bread and circuses, consumerism and the glitz of 'People magazine' have no spine to challenge boldly 7 years of lies, impoverishment but the wealthy class of the Bush clan's cronies, and the struggle for everyday existence.
Nonetheless, the cat's out of the bag, and the intelligence communities report has it is hoped, stayed the Dr. Strangelove's hand in the White House from attacking Iran.