Bill Richardson makes it short, sweet and brutal

Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) just happens to be running for president, in case you weren't aware. Today he released a statement regarding the recent hubbub over the Iran intelligence estimate that basically says Iran shelved their nuclear weapons program years ago, an assessment which differs greatly from what Bush, Cheney, and various neocon chihuahuas have yapped of late and insist on even now.

Most of the other candidates have chimed in on the report, but I like Richardson's take best. The key bit of his very brief statement:

This NIE tells us one of two things. Either the Bush-Cheney administration has been willfully misleading the American public on Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities or they are incompetent and were not aware of the consensus view of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies until yesterday.

So they're either liars or idiots. Now that's a concise intelligence estimate if I've ever heard one.

Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee continues to channel Ronald Reagan.