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seabass -- your insight into the minds of the administration to highlight the lying is needed for evil #2:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003581

One Down, Two to Go
The G-8 takes on what's left of the axis of evil.
Wednesday, June 4, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT

World summits have become notoriously narcoleptic, but the one just completed in France actually made news: The G-8 nations declared that they will not let Iran and North Korea acquire nuclear weapons.

In other words, the unilateralist President Bush has persuaded even the French that the last two members of his axis of evil are global security problems. One (Iraq) down, two to go. There is bound to be lots of fighting over what to do about those two, but at least the members have finally committed to doing something.

And none too soon. The North Korean problem is well known. But last August, the world learned about 160 new centrifuges in Natanz in central Iran, part of a massive uranium enrichment plant due for completion in 2005; the plant will leave Iran capable of producing enough uranium for several nuclear bombs a year. Its discovery was made only after the U.S. was tipped off by an Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (considered by the U.S. to be part of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq based in Iraq, but known to provide reliable information on Iran's weapons of mass destruction).