I wonder whether the conventional interpretation""that the administration and the Pentagon were trying to draw attention to the alleged threat posed by Iran as a way of framing Bush's trip to the region and especially to the Gulf""is accurate, but not in the way the pundits have suggested. Specifically, I wonder whether this was the Pentagon's equivalent of the intelligence community's NIE on Iran's nuclear program. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.