Iran's Nuclear Threat and U.S. Policy

My whole life I've been told that Iran is getting a bomb.

Iran will be capable of producing alone, without importing

anything, nuclear bombs within three to five years.

Iran is getting a bomb.

Iran is gearing up to have, to produce twenty-five bombs,

atomic bombs, a year.

Iran is getting a bomb.

They're very close. They're six months away from being about

ninety percent of

having the rich uranium for an atom bomb.

Iran is getting a bomb.

Iran is so dangerous, weeks away from having

the fissile material

for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.

Iran is getting a nuclear bomb.

They have the wherewithal, the stored up, uh, preserved knowledge

to make a bomb very quickly, uh, if they wanted to do it.

And yet here in twenty twenty-five, they do not have a nuclear bomb.

If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon.

So why should we trust the American intelligence without

verifying it? Now, the other side of the argument is,

you know, kind of, oh, Iran

is this big threat. Same people that told us that Iraq was a big threat.

There is no question whatsoever that Saddam

is seeking and is working and is advancing towards the

development of nuclear weapons. No question whatsoever.

If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I

guarantee you that it will have enormous positive

reverberations on the region.

The same people that told us the Taliban was a big threat.

And the way to deal with the terrorist regimes, among other things, was to, uh,

apply military force against them, to strike them.

The way we did in, uh, Afghanistan.

The way, for example... I, I want to answer your question.

Well, I guess I'm running out of time, so I quickly was trying to get...

We've done, I think, what you proposed in Afghanistan,

yet I haven't seen that

sort of neighborhood effect.

Well, I think, I think there's been an, an enormous effect.

Uh, third nation, by the way, is Libya.

Exporting terrorism not only to every part of the Middle East, but to

Venezuela. By the way, what are we doing with Greenland?

We gotta do something with Greenland.

I'll be honest. Fine. I mean, I don't like Iran, but the evidence

shows that every single one of these people, the last couple of

decades, that is pushing for a conflict with Iran

has not just failed

miserably, has been one of the greatest catastrophes

in American foreign policy

ever. Thousands of lives needlessly lost of

Americans, millions of people

displaced, trillions of dollars spent, and let's be honest, at this particular

moment, we cannot afford this war.