Where's the accountability?

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Two years ago, the Democrats and their friends in the liberal media were patting themselves on the back because of a National Intelligence Estimate that baldly stated, "Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003."

This was thought to make President George Bush look bad because he was insisting that Iran was a rogue nation that presented a growing threat in the Mideast and throughout the world.

Since it made George Bush look bad, it was therefore considered of major significance. As I noted in a December 2007 column, the mainstream media had been "doing a major blitz of the airwaves with the claim that Bush and Cheney had misled the American people and the world by saying that Iran was a nuclear threat."

But the liberal media - apparently endeared with the idea that 2009 was some far distant future beyond our need for concern - just told the public what it wanted the public to know -

"Bush is bad; Iran not so much."

The only problem was that the sum total of evidence in the National Intelligence Estimate that supported the proposal that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 was the sentence that declared it so.

Indeed, throughout the report there were red flags as big as the nose on Pinocchio's face. Even in the very same sentence that declared Iran had "halted" its nuclear weapons program, it was also acknowledged that Iran "still may be able to develop a weapon between 2010 and 2015."

Well, welcome to 2010...


[Among the most glaring double standards in our liberal MSM: accountability of the Left's past misdeeds - frequently their own...]

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