memo for the PNAC

the Project for New American Century is deeply offended by yesterday's Washington Post report on the intelligence community's consensus that Iran is 10 YEARS from having a nuclear weapon... And rightly so... I mean, this throws a monkey wrench into Illegal Invasion and Occupation #2. So, Gary Schmitt took it upon himself to send this memo to PNAC's "opinion leaders" (laugh) which contains this 2 sentence irony overload:

Indeed, given how little we know, the intelligence community estimate is just as likely to be wrong as right when it comes to predicting Iran’s program.Remember, US intelligence on Iraq first missed how close Saddam was to having a bomb prior to the first Gulf War before overestimating Iraq’s wmd program in the run up to the second war.

Yeah, they made big mistakes, didn't they guys? How could they be so wildly off-base?

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MEMORANDUM TO: PNAC Opinion Leaders FROM: No One In Particular SUBJECT: Shut yer pie hole. You got it wrong for nearly a decade on Iraq. Stop killing American soldiers for your global circle-jerk. Your Pax-Americana agenda is transparent and you are weakening our Country and endangering our citizens.

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[related - this article appeared yesterday at The American Conservative:

Attack on Iran: Pre-emptive Nuclear War

The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.]