Ah what a beautiful ham-fisted and unexpected approach

The Right has been fantasizing about taking out Iran from more than a quarter-century. It is true we may not have the personnel to fight two wars at the same time, but Iran is so close and they want to bomb them so much, one can only have this opportunity so much. I cannot imagine Bush easily resisting the pressure of so many deeply held fantasies of those too old to actually fight.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Iran used negotiations with the European Union to play for time and has now achieved the ability to both develop nuclear weapons and deliver them, a senior Bush administration official said Monday.

At a news conference at the Foreign Press Center, Robert G. Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control, cited "tremendous resources" as well as a "very sophisticated, a very advanced scientific and technical community" as helpful to Iran.

He offered no assessment of how long it might take Iran to produce nuclear weapons.

President Bush, approving of a decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council, said in a statement Saturday that Iran was "continuing to develop the capability to build nuclear weapons."

Joseph took it a step further. "I would say that Iran does have the capability to develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them," he said in a response to a question.

I feel so safe knowing that Michael Ledeen has this guy's ear - he's never wrong.