December 18, 2007 (LPAC)--President Bush said yesterday that he supports Russia's decision to ship nuclear fuel to Iran for its Bushehr reactor, adding that it shows that Iran doesn't need to reprocess uranium, and that everyone will now want even tougher economic sanctions, should Iran not stop its uranium enrichment program. American statesman Lyndon LaRouche dismissed Bush's statement as bluster, that Bush is just covering his backside, since U.S. policy is falling apart globally. "U.S. policy is in complete breakdown," said LaRouche, "along with the financial system, and Bush's talk reminds me of Adolf Hitler's claims of having German superweapons near the end of the war, when the Third Reich was crumbling around him."

Indeed, Bush administration officials leaked to the New York Times, that, despite the President's happy face about the nuclear fuel shipment, privately the administration views the Russian move as another blow to the Cheney drive for war against Iran.

While the Russian move was not unexpected, the New York Times's sources said, the administration was particularly unhappy about the timing of the shipment. Coming two weeks after the release of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate which said Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, the officials feared the fuel delivery will make it even harder to get China and Russia to go along with any tougher sanctions against Iran.