Once again, the Bush neocons have distorted International Atomic Energy Agency findings, as is their habit.

"U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran's nuclear work, calling parts of it 'outrageous and dishonest,' according to a letter obtained by Reuters," a characterization in keeping with the Straussian neocon philosophy of lies and dissimulation.

Director General Mohammed ElBaradei and the IAEA "said the report falsely described Iran to have enriched uranium at its pilot centrifuge plant to weapons-grade level in April, whereas IAEA inspectors had made clear Iran had enriched only to a low level usable for nuclear power reactor fuel."

Iran is a signatory state of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. According to the treaty, Iran has the right to develop a civilian nuclear energy program. According to the neocons, however, this desire to develop a nuclear energy program means Iran is secretly building nukes and once this task is accomplished-in three to ten years, depending on what neocon is talking-they will immediately nuke Israel. Of course, this is nonsense and a smoke screen used by the neocons to come up with a flabby excuse to shock and awe Iran, as per the long-standing plan to take out all of Israel's enemies.

The "outrageous and dishonest" neocon report on Iran "recalled clashes between the IAEA and the Bush administration before the 2003 Iraq war over findings cited by Washington about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that proved false, and underlined continued tensions over Iran's dossier."

In 2004, shortly after the neocon infested Pentagon invaded Iraq, David Kay, former head of the Iraq Survey Group, characterized the neocon claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction as "delusional." In fact, telling outrageous lies about Iraq and WMD-and also conjuring up an absurd connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda-was a deliberate policy spearheaded by the raving neocon and Zionist Douglas Feith. In regard to the latter, a "Senate report on the Bush administration's use of intelligence that led to the American invasion of Iraq debunks White House claims that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had operational ties to Al Qaeda before the war began in March 2003," the Chicago Tribune reported last week. "The report, released ... by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provides details to support the committee's earlier, July 2004 conclusion that much of the intelligence that led up to the Iraq war was flawed, and the report did not turn up any new evidence to support the administration's claim that Iraq was trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction." In other words, the neocons lied through their teeth, something they do quite easily.

So efficacious are neocon lies, back in February of 2003, in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, a CNN-Time poll revealed that 76 percent of ill-informed and brainwashed Americans believed Saddam and Osama were in cahoots. In July of this year, that number had slipped to 64 percent, according to a Harris poll. Apparently, if I went on Fox and CNN every day for a couple years, a dozen or more times each and every a day, and declared the moon is made of blue cheese, no doubt millions of Americans would believe this, too.

IAEA's complaint will fall off the corporate media radar screen and the persistent warmongering drumbeat against Iran will continue unabated.

Unfortunately, a large number of Americans believe whatever nonsense the neocons and the corporate media feed them, and this drivel buttressed by a body of lies and criminal dishonesty will become the new reality, as the neocons formulate reality, as they arrogantly remind us.

Before Bush leaves office-if he indeed leaves office-there will be a shock and awe campaign unleashed against Iran. It may not come before the mid-term elections, but it will come, guaranteed, for if the neocons are anything it is bulldogged.

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