6-7 months?
Every few weeks for the past few years someone comes up with an estimate of just a few month more - it’s like crying wolf.
Here’s the deal - didn’t someone say the Iraq’s weapons were shipped to Syria before we invaded? If true, Syria has nukes now!
Going after Iran for possibly building nukes is a fools game - at the end of the day (when it happens) it will cost each of us thousands of dollars (fuel costs) and very possibly result in the destruction of Israel, Iran and several other countries. In fact, the end of the world may be at hand.
“Going after Iran for possibly building nukes is a fools game - at the end of the day (when it happens) it will cost each of us thousands of dollars (fuel costs) and very possibly result in the destruction of Israel, Iran and several other countries. In fact, the end of the world may be at hand.”
And what do you think will happen if we DON’T go after Iran?
It will blackmail the US, the world and it WILL destroy Israel, as Iran already said many times before.
That WMD was not neccessarily nuclear- it would be their chemical weapons, bioweapons, etc. Iraq did not have "nukes" ...(yet)... their nuclear program had taken a severe hit back when Israel bombed their Osirek faility, and took it again in Desert Storm.
What Iraq did have and which we did find was a prototype for a nuclear enrichment centrifuge, the scientists, engineers and techs they needed, tools for the tasks, lab facilities, volumes of research and drawings, and a guru of sorts, the Pakistani Qadeer Khan, and all his helpful minions, who was making himself quite popular in N Korea, Iran, and so on by proliferating.
Iraq also had a fully functional prototype for the nonnuclear portions of the bomb, requiring only the enriched fissionable matierial. And they were in the process of developing long range missiles, which are needed to carry warheads, some of which may have made it to Syria.
Our concern was that Iraq , if sanctions failed as they were in the process of doing, would then be free to go full bore on reconsituting their nuclear program. That was their intention- it is why they buried their prototypes and kept their scientists with a minder at all times, and scientists' families in compounds where they could be watched. In the end the Iraqis sent their scientists to Syria in the hopes Saddam would survive and live to fight again and recall them.