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Old 10-28-2007, 11:05 AM
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When the Iraq war was getting "sold" to the public, we heard the same arguments about Saddam. Once bitten...
Before the war in Iraq everybody (this includes Germany, Russia, France, and the French wing of American politics--the Democrats) was certain that Iraq possessed WMD and was reconstituting the nuke program. Various nations even provided varying estimates on when Saddam would deploy a workin device. The differences came with respect to how folks should respond to the "threat".

Now the international community is certain that Iran is on the path to nukes. Is the evidence more damning than for Iraq? I'm unconvinced of that. Seems like the same entities citing reports and analysis that cannot be substantiated.

Iran is a threat of a sort -- funding terrorists for example. But nuke thing? The interventionists better do a more convincing job than they did with Saddam.

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