The National Intelligence Estimate — a gathering of the 15 leading intelligence organizations — revised its opinion that Iran had or was attempting to create nuclear weapons and now states that if Iran were to start its nuclear weapons program — which was stopped in 2003 because of international pressure — it wouldn’t have a viable weapon until 2015. In light of this, Mr. Bush said that he viewed this as a “warning signal” because Iran had a nuclear weapons program, and that “nothing’s changed” in his administration’s eyes.

“To me, the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) provides an opportunity for us to rally the international community — to continue to rally the community — to pressure the Iranian regime to suspend its program,” Mr. Bush said. “What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?”

Mr. Bush, the material fallacy in your statement is astonishing. How you even manage to wipe your ass in the morning amazes me.

First, Mr. Bush, your conclusion that Iran’s attempt to create a nuclear reactor will lead to a nuclear weapons program is severely flawed. Just because a country is intent on producing nuclear-grade material for a reactor does not automatically mean that it is going to further develop its supply of plutonium in order to create a nuclear weapon. “What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?” Mr. Bush, how about the estimation that Iran stopped its program in 2003 under international pressure?

But logic isn’t your strong point, is it, Mr. Bush? After all, you’re a leader — a decider — and you’ve already made your decision, and you’re determined to get your way, even if it means you’re the one who has to provoke another war. If you had any brain power left in that big-oil redneck brain of yours, Mr. Bush, you would’ve seen the fallacy of your logic — you would see that you, sir, are creating the undue tensions between Iran and the United States.

If you were any kind of diplomat, you would open some kind of dialog with Iran. Hell, even a little memo asking “can we talk after class” would be more diplomatic than your constant rhetoric and threats of a possible “first strike” against a country that has not attacked us.

That would be par for the course with you, though, Mr. Bush. After all, you lied to us — the American people — and the world about the reasons for invading Iraq. We were led, like sheep, into believing Iraq had some connections with Al Qaeda, then into believing that Iraq had in its possession weapons of mass destruction. And, after being proven wrong on both accounts you stood at a fund raising dinner, behind a podium, and joked about not being able to find anything linking Iraq to Al Qaeda or WMDs. You laughed off your own incompetence and continued to blindly push forward.

And now you’ve begun your warmongering rhetoric again. Only this time, sir, you were refuted before you could unleash a catastrophic first strike. You were refuted before you could potentially displace or kill millions of innocent civilians, again. You were denied by the very same intelligence community you blamed for giving you bad information. You were denied by the same intelligence community that — outside of the CIA — called you, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Dick Cheney insane.

Yet despite all of this, a preemptive first strike — even a nuclear first strike — is still on the “diplomatic” table. Despite all of the evidence contrary to your administration’s assertions, you continue to wage a war of words — that you threaten will turn into a hot war — unless your demands are met.

You question Ahmadinejad for not complying with U.N. resolutions; yet complying with those resolutions would mean that Iran — which you now surround on both of her borders — would be unable to protect herself from an American-led invasion.

Iran, thanks to your political posturing, has no incentive to disarm. And it, in fact, has a greater sense of urgency to acquire a nuclear weapon, just to get you to back off of your political bullying. But you can’t see that, can you, Mr. Bush?

You sit there and wonder why the Muslim world loathes America. Despite all of the horrors and atrocities you have committed in the names of liberty, peace, freedom, and security, you still have the gall to suggest that the Muslim world — and, indeed, the world as a whole — should respect us because we’re attempting to spread democracy through violent means? My question to you, Mr. Bush, is why shouldn’t the world think of us as nothing but well-armed thugs?

The only “warning signal” that the NIE’s report sent to us, Mr. Bush, is that you, sir, are nothing more than a “good ol’ boy” redneck thug.