Associated Press
July 26, 2010

WASHINGTON — Former CIA director Michael Hayden says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the United States does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, said that during his tenure a strike was “way down the list’’ of options. But he said on CNN’s “State of the Union’’ that such action now “seems inexorable.’’

“We engage. They continue to move forward,’’ Hayden said. ‘We vote for sanctions. They continue to move forward. We try to deter, to dissuade. They continue to move forward.’’

He predicted that Iran will develop its program to the point where it is just below having an actual weapon.

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Comment: Isn't it funny how the same arguments are being used to thrust us toward war with Iran that were used by Bush to get us entangled into the no-win situation we have in Iraq? Where are the "weapons of mass destruction" that we heard about from the last war-hungry administration? How many times are we going to keep falling for the same nonsense? —Darren Weeks