and now on to iraq's neighbor, iran. from the LAT:

Here we suddenly discover that Iran is much further along, with a far more robust nuclear weapons development program than anyone said it had," Powell said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition." "It shows you how a determined nation that has the intent to develop a nuclear weapon can keep that development process secret from inspectors and outsiders if they really are determined to do it."

then it later points out:

Inspectors found centrifuges and other evidence that Iran had made more progress than anyone had thought

does powell actually believe he can just continue to lie and deceive the way he says saddam is lying and deceiving? i've said it a million times: IT'S HARDER AND HARDER TO TELL WHICH SIDE IS SPEAKING