Amidst Middle East peace talks on November 28, 2007, President “Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney sat down with intelligence officials who briefed them on a new report on Iran’s nuclear program that was about to radically alter their campaign against Tehran. After years of assuming that Iran was trying to build a nuclear bomb, the intelligence agencies had made a startling about-face: the new report concluded that while Iran did have a program to develop nuclear weapons in the past, it was shut down in the fall of 2003 just after American troops overthrew Saddam Hussein next door in Iraq.”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 572