the next time someone bashes seymour hersh over at the new yorker, needs to be bitchslapped with some facts, such as this lil' gem, caught by today's papers over at slate:

Unmanned U.S. planes have been monitoring Iranian airspace in search of nukes, reports the WP. The drones complement satellite recon by sampling the air for traces of nuclear activity. The story elaborates on news broken by Seymour Hersh last month. Iranian civilians first spotted the drones in December but thought they were flying saucers. Though the United States believes that Iran's nuclear energy program is a front for developing nuclear weapons, Condoleezza Rice said that an Iranian invasion is not on the menu "at this time."

at this time?? what the hell are they up to, you might ask. well, just make sure you ask someone with a brain to tell you, like a democrat.