IN 2003, IRAN MAY HAVE STOPPED THEIR MILITARY TRACK BECAUSE IRAQ FELL...

IRAQ FELL IN 2003 AND IRAN WAS SURROUNDED - AND BUSH WAS LOOKIN' GOLDEN...

• ...AND THEY PROBABLY STARTED IT UP AGAIN WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR THAT WE WEREN'T GOING TO FIND ANY HUGE STOCKPILES OF WMD...
• AND BUSH WASN'T LOOKING SO GOLDEN ANYMORE...
  

• THEY THEN PROBABLY REALIZED THEY COULD EXPLOIT OUR SELF-DOUBT, AND OUR LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR INTEL' - AND OUR PARTISAN DIVIDE...
  

• THAT WOULD BE CIRCA 2005-6.

• WHICH MEANS THEY MAY ALREADY HAVE A BOMB, BUILT FROM AN ARRAY OF CENTRIFUGES WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.

• THINK IT'S NOT POSSIBLE? ER UM... PAKISTAN DID IT.
  
• AND THE IAEA ALSO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT LIBYA'S PROGRAM.

LET ME ASK YOU THIS: WHICH SIDE DO YOU WANT TO ERR ON:

• DO YOU ANT TO PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK A TYRANNICAL REGIME WHICH IS CAUSING MOST OF THE TROUBLE IN THE REGION WITHOUT A NUKE? (AND RISK HITTING THEM TOO SOON?)
  

• OR DO YOU WANT TO LET THEM GET NUKES FIRST, AND THEN TRY TO DEAL WITH THEM?

THE LATTER CHOICE IS NOT PRUDENT.