Just wondering who came up with this brilliant idea to further damage the standing of the United States in diplomatic circles.
With an hour-long slide show that blends satellite imagery with disquieting assumptions about Iran’s nuclear energy program, Bush administration officials have been trying to convince allies that Tehran is on a fast track toward nuclear weapons.
The PowerPoint briefing, titled "A History of Concealment and Deception," has been presented to diplomats from more than a dozen countries.
One would think it is obvious that such a repeated attempt to influence by PowerPoint-lies will backfire, especially when the U.S. intelligence had just contradicted the claims the presentation made.
The [recent U.S. intelligence] estimate judged Iran to be as much as a decade away from being able to manufacture the fissile material necessary for a nuclear explosion. A report issued last week by the International Institute for Security Studies, a London-based research group, found Iran was 10 to 15 years from the technical know-how to build a bomb.
Now which way is it? Iran is on a "fast track" but it will take 10 years? And then Iran may have the ability, not a proven intend, to produce a raw weapon. A weapon only one country so far has ever used in a war.
Imagine to be a U.S. friendly diplomat and having to sit through an hour of PowerPoint charts of bullshit and dogshit, bullshit and dogshit, bullshit …
"I don’t think they’ll lose any support, but it isn’t going to win anyone either," said one European diplomat who attended the recent briefing and whose country backs the U.S. position on Iran.
Translated diplo-speech: "These idiots screwed up again. Will they ever learn? They just made their case worse than it has been before. I’m sick of it."
