Those Silly Lying Bastards at National Review

I have stumbled across a perfect example of the sort of shameless fearmongering and blatant lying that is being employed by conservative writers in discussing the situation with Iran (link here). Naturally, this piece of trash comes from National Review:

ElBaradei says that if Iran starts enriching uranium--something it gives every signal of intending to do--it could have a bomb within months.

While technically true, this statement is such an absurdly contorted form of the "truth" so as to have no relation to any clear statement of what is actually going on in Iran. In fact, it gives the opposite impression regarding the danger Iran poses, simply because it omits a very very relevant fact: Iran does in fact send signals that it intends to begin enriching uranium, however, according to a consensus in the U.S. intelligence community, it will take Iran about 10 years to perfect and employ the technology that will allow them to begin enriching uranium. So, National Review leaves you with the impression that Iran can have nuclear weapons within a few months from now, when in fact they can have nuclear weapons a few months from some unspecified point in the far, far future when they have enrichment facilities. So much for National Review ever telling the truth.