[kellynla]

"There's got to be more to it than mere media bias."

not reeeeely...
but then the Bush administration has not made a big deal out of the tapes either...guess they don't want to embarrass the Chicoms, Ruskees, Krauts and Frenchies who were all probably furnishing Saddam with all the toys for ten years.
General McInerney was just on O'Reilly and he is puzzled too why the administration has not made a bigger deal out of this other than maybe that GWB needs the backing of China, France and Germany at the UN for the present and future.

[EarlyBird]

...other than maybe that GWB needs the backing of China, France and Germany at the UN for the present and future.

I think this is got to be the reason.

It's now feared (according to Ken Timmerman's book Countdown to Crisis) that if Iran used all of the secret nuclear facilities that are now being discovered since it started building them in the early 90s (with lot's of help from A.Q. Khan, for one), they would have enough fissile material by now for 25 nuclear warheads.

The scary thing is that no one really knows. Timmerman's book is a must read, by the way.

Cooperation from Europe on the Iran issue is much more important right now then opening old wounds and wasting political capital on proving the WMD issue.