what lies?....you believe that iran isn`t seeking a nuclear weapon?.....you believe saddam wasn`t?...he definitely was until his reactor was bombed by the isrraelis in 1981....if he`d come clean with the iaea....and just allowed full inspections,the war would have never happened...
nobody knew what he had..clinton sure didn`t..read some of his and other dems speeches on the subject.....they were hard core about the removal of saddam...people are trying to rewrite history...
and if he had developed some crude nuclear weapon when he invaded kuwait back prior to gulf war 1,think what would have happened when he was forcefully removed....he lobbed scuds into israel....they did nothing...he was just trying to start a full scale arab israeli war...
if saddam had nukes at that point,saddam would still have kuwait...or we might have had nuclear war.....or he`d be controlling much of the oil in the region....a disaster for the west...
how could you stop him?....unless you wanted to risk a nuclear war..
you think iran`s just pursuing alternative energy?...
there are ways to produce safe nuclear energy without concern about that country producing nuclear weapons...it depends on the production of the uranium/plutonium(% of purity of fissile material)etc....
all they`d have to do is throw the doors open and let the iaea in as south africa did...
unfortunately,saddam didn`t do this...and iran isn`t doing it...we dropped the ball with n.korea....but,i doubt they`re as existential a threat as an islamic theocracy or a governemnt with designs on using the weapons as a means to blackmail the world and gain control over much of middle eastern oil....
i mean,it`s a pay me now or pay me later deal....
you really want some unhinged theocratic nuts who are interested in bringing back the 12th mahdi..(
http://ultimitempi.blogspot.com/2006/09/iran-ahmadinejad-and-12th-mahdi.html )via a nuclear holocaust with access to nuclear weapons and the ability to give them to some terrorist surrogate?........
these people believe that death is a promotion...theres no m.a.d.(mutually assured destruction)deterent as we had with the russians...the russians are relatively sane...