It's just too obvious. This administration always zeroes in on something that supports their military ambitions and then gets tunnel vision.

Remember Iraq? Chalabi? The twisted informant who helped draw the inside plans of the moving vans full of WMDs? We all know now there was little effort to find anyone to rebutt the liars and foxes who were feeding Cheney & Rumsfeld falsehoods in order to win favor, political power, or money.

Now it seems the "we must attack Iran" build-up centered around this laptop.

The discovery led officials to revisit intelligence mined in 2004 and 2005 from the laptop obtained from the Iranian engineer. The documents on that laptop described two programs, termed L-101 and L-102 by the Iranians, describing designs and computer simulations that appeared to be related to weapons work. Link...

Appeared to be?

Read all about it at Facing South...

UPDATE: I hate to see this really, not only because of safety reasons but because I'm pretty sure the folks at TVA are doing their best. At some point you have to start wondering, though, if their best is good enough. I'm still on the fence regarding nuclear power. I used to be 100% for it. Now I'm not so sure. Safety and nuclear waste disposal are serious concerns that we don't seem able or willing to deal with.

On a related note, see this excellent (and scary) report by Sue Sturgis at Facing South earlier this week regarding plans to make the South a nuclear waste dump. (And my follow up here.)

And before that, here is a disturbing report about the pending shutdown (which may have already occurred) of the Savannah River Ecology Lab which studies the effects of radioactive contamination on the environment. Their research is "specifically related to impacts from nuclear weapons related production. Such information is essential to the operation and closure of all DOE sites. SREL is recognized as a world leader in radiation ecology and provides unprecedented training for future scientists and engineers in this field."

TVA is set to reactivate Browns Ferry Unit 1 next month and is seeking approval for completing Watts Bar Unit 2. What do you think about TVA's record on nuclear power generation? Should they be in the nuclear power business? Will nuclear power help solve our energy problems, or is there too much risk? Read more after the jump...