The doomsayer is Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, who apparently has a thing for the number 16—because as Josh Marshall points out:
Stephen Rademaker works for Robert Joseph. And that's the same Bob Joseph who was charged with muscling the CIA into letting President Bush use the Niger bamboozle in the 2003 State of the Union address. And he actually managed to get it done, even after the Alan Foley and others at the CIA told him repeatedly they didn't think it was true. So he certainly speaks with a lot of credibility on this issue.“The Niger bamboozle,” also known as “the 16 words” in Bush’s SOTU that never should have been there.
Juan Cole, who I trust hell and gone more than any dirtbag associated with this administration and their insistent warmongering, says Iran is “a good ten years away from having a bomb.” Even if he were overestimating by as much as double, five years is still a hell of a long time for a little thing called diplomacy to run its course before we all go apeshit.
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