ElBaradei: Iran No Immediate Threat

IAEA chief ElBaradei probably did not appreciate the way Bush treated him the last time around when UN inspectors were in Iraq and were not finding anything, but he remains a diplomat and expert trying to do a difficult job. S.W. Anderson of Oh!pinion has some observations on a Yahoo story about a speech that El Baradei gave nearly two weeks ago where he said Iran does not pose an immediate threat:

It bears mentioning that ElBaradei was right when he urged the U.S. to let U.N. inspectors searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction continue their work in early 2003. ElBaradei said there was time then, too, but President George W. Bush was convinced he knew better.

Three-plus years, nearly 3,000 dead U.S. soldiers and well over $300 billion later, we see who was right, who was wrong and what the consequences of going off half cocked are.

Would it be unkind of me to mention that ElBaradei knows more about nuclear weapons than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney combined? After all, when have Bush and Cheney ever listened to their own experts in Washington?