I can’t understand why the Bush administration never really trusted the IAEA when they talked about Iraq. Could it be their rank incompetence?:
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday he could not rule out the possibility that Iran has been pursuing atomic weapons, as the United States contends…
“We have not yet seen that, but I am not excluding that possibility,” said ElBaradei, the head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency. “The jury’s still out.”
Iran has been nailed with highly enriched uranium that can only be used for weapons and having their military build centrifuges. What exactly will it take to bring that jury back in the room? If Iran showed the world a photo of a nuclear weapon, ElBaradei would say that it was for energy use. Or he’d say that the picture was too fuzzy to act on:
In November, the IAEA said in a report on Iran that it had no evidence so far of a nuclear weapons program. In a February report, the agency made no reference to whether it had obtained any evidence of a weapons program.
The statement in the November report infuriated some members of the Bush administration, with one U.S. official calling the conclusion “impossible to believe.”
