Seems intellectually dishonest to accuse honkhonkpants of lying when Rice was claiming they could produce a nuke at any time.

No, she leaves it up to the reader's imagination (note the evocative final sentence) to bridge the inch-wide gap between what she's willing to say, and want she wants to be able to say. Clearly the type of person you want on your board.

And that's a very curious example you cite considering Iran was the place the neocons wanted to invade next under the same set of false pretenses.

> Nuclear program != nuclear weapons. See Iran

The parallel is easy to make. Repeat if often enough and people will end up saying they have nukes.