Bush Prevented Attack on Iran

It seems that Iran was almost attacked by Israel but the US put the kibosh on it.

The interviews also indicate that Mr. Bush was convinced by top administration officials, led by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, that any overt attack on Iran would probably prove ineffective, lead to the expulsion of international inspectors and drive Iran’s nuclear effort further out of view. Mr. Bush and his aides also discussed the possibility that an airstrike could ignite a broad Middle East war in which America’s 140,000 troops in Iraq would inevitably become involved.

This part probably shouldn't have been published.

The covert American program, started in early 2008, includes renewed American efforts to penetrate Iran’s nuclear supply chain abroad, along with new efforts, some of them experimental, to undermine electrical systems, computer systems and other networks on which Iran relies. It is aimed at delaying the day that Iran can produce the weapons-grade fuel and designs it needs to produce a workable nuclear weapon.

Why does the New York Times print the existence of covert programs against Iranian nuclear ambitions? All I can think of is that this is a way of letting the Iranians know that they are being watched by the CIA. Perhaps the hacks are in place and the moles are already embedded so there really isn't any reason to be secretive about the existence of the program.

Now Obama needs to come out and say that they are cancelling the program but continue it in secret. If he is called on it he just says that he changed his mind and kept the thing running after he made the statement. I think preventing Iran from getting the bomb is foreign policy job one.