Can you imagine the New York Times complaining about “unclassifying the classified”? Talk about “Large Balls”. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann (both), again force the issue by complaining about being “redacted” in their Defense of Iran oped.

“The Iraq Study Group has added its voice to a burgeoning chorus of commentators, politicians, and former officials calling for a limited, tactical dialogue with Iran regarding Iraq. The Bush administration has indicated a conditional willingness to pursue a similarly compartmented dialogue with Tehran over Iran‚Äôs nuclear activities.”

Waaaaaa…

Of course this is more hissy-fitting over the administration’s position that Iran is a terrorist supporting thug nation that can’t be trusted farther than one could throw Rosie O’Donnell.

Both Leverett and Mann can spare me their State Department version of Iranian/US Relations over the years. Simply put: There is simply no obtainable dialog with Iran. Period. Case in point, nutjob Ahmadinejad is still on the threat level with the west and especially Israel. As long as dog-puss is in power (dispite reports to the contrary, he ain’t going anywhere), you might as well forget any intelligent dialog, reason, etc.

Any call to recognize Iran as a respectable player on the world stage must be rejected outright. You don’t dialog with criminals - you elimate them. It’s disarm and stand down, or we’ll help you.

Capt Ed takes this a step further:

“Leverett’s column asks us to believe that the Iranians only started developing their nuclear program in earnest after getting the Bush brush-off in 2003, when in fact the brush-off came in large part because of the Iranian nuclear program and their refusal to end it. This program had been growing clandestinely throughout the 1990s, a fact finally admitted by Iran when the IAEA caught them at it a few years ago. Their insistence on becoming a “nuclear power”, as they put it this week, transcended anything they desired from a relationship with the US.

And why is that? They need the bomb to destroy Israel. The other part that Leverett doesn’t mention is Iran’s funding and support of both Hamas and Hezbollah in the proxy war against our ally in the Middle East. The Iranians would never have traded that away for diplomatic relations with the US, and in fact have spent several years increasing the violence from both groups against Israel. We can hardly fight a war on terror while caving into terror’s leading sponsor, a fact that the ISG also conveniently overlooks.”

Indeed. We need to stop this crap of pussyfooting around with this thug and his regime BEFORE they get the means to make real their threats - and make no mistake, that’s exactly what they intend to do.