Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

Pinch me, I think I'm reliving the same old nightmare. KNIGHT-RIDDER:

State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political operatives who share the White House and Pentagon's distrust of international negotiations and treaties.

The reorganization of the department's arms control and international security bureaus was intended to help it better deal with 21st-century threats. Instead, it's thrown the agency into turmoil and produced an exodus of experts with decades of experience in nuclear arms, chemical weapons and related matters, according to 11 current and former officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder.

The reorganization was conducted largely in secret by a panel of four political appointees... [*]

So just in time to declare Iran is "on the verge" of obtaining nuclear weapons, all those who have the knowledge to disagree are being purged and replaced with BushCo Armageddon theorists. And guess who was responsible? None other than our old friend John Bolton, now in charge of browbeating the UN into sanctioning next year's invasion of Iran. Sweeeet...!