Just to keep everyone abreast of the Bush Propaganda Machine’s current psyops operations, take a look at this April 2nd post in ABC’s The Blotter.
Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.
The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009, sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade tell ABC News.
Does this method of influencing public opinion sound familiar? Niger, yellowcake uranium, aluminum tubes, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, and Colin Powell at the UN redux.
Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com points out that Bush was asked about this report today in his press conference, and notes
So within less than 24 hours, a completely shoddy, unreliable and vague ABC News report translates into a straightforward statement at the President’s Press Conference that “Iran will be capable of building a nuclear bomb within two years.”
With the Bush Administration’s credibility so deep in the crapper, the Neocons need to get ABC’s investigative reporters to run stories with unsubstantiated information in order to bolster their case against another Middle Eastern big talker, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Blotter should be ashamed of running that story. I guess the Bushies may have found their new Judith Miller.