By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Global Research
If the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report hammered a nail into the coffin of the Bush-Cheney Iran war policy, a new report may do similar damage to the same duo's anti-Iran sanctions policy. Just as the NIE stated that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, and implied, therefore, that this could not be used as a casus belli, so a report issued on December 18, by the Government Accountability Office, said that sanctions of the type Washington is pushing would be worthless. The GAO report sports a somewhat understated, yet unambiguous, title: "Iran Sanctions: Impact in Furthering U.S. Objectives Is Unclear and Should Be Reviewed"
(www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-08-58 for PDF file).
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