Let the Assault on Reality Begin!

...Well, it already has, of course, when it comes to the recent NIE on Iran's nuclear program. First, it was the neocons (aka, the Likud Party-U.S. Chapter), notably John "Kwazy-Putz" Bolton, Wee Willie Kristol and Norman "Putz" Podhoretz. Now comes the hand controlling the strings, in the form of Ari Dichter, Israel's minister of public security, challenging the NIE's conclusion that Iran had ceased its nuclear program several years ago. The no compromise, dead-ender Likudists, whether in Jerusalem or New York City, have as their goal to use the American military (hence American lives) as the spearpoint in a "preventative" war with Iran. The war of choice with Iraq was also predicated on Saddam Hussein being the most immediate threat to Israel, rather than on Iraq being a "front" in the war on terror. No, that front was, and is, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. One hopes this NIE is a new Declaration of Independence from the Likudists.