You might think that the lessons of Iraq might teach major media outlets not to report anonymously sourced, questionable, inflammatory information regarding weapons of mass destruction, especially regarding nations towards which we already have bellicose policy and intentions.
You'd be wrong.
ABC reports that Iran could HaVE TEH NUKULAR BOM in 2009!!!11!!1! Who says? "Sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade." Well, then. I'm certainly persuaded. Sean-Paul Kelley of The Agonist, a fantastic source for foreign policy information -- and especially all things Iran -- elaborates:
[If] you go back and look at the record and see how long it has taken for Iran to get where they are you realize what garbage this article is. We've been expecting Iran to install 3,000 centrifuges for some time. And now that they've installed 1/3 that number we're going to blow it up into a crisis? First it was 3,000 centrifuges that make up the red line, now it's 1,000?And the drumbeat goes on.
Please. This is nothing more than disinformation, a well timed leak doled out to Ross and ABC. Nothing more. Nothing less.
