Reply #83: I don't have the source, but I think Kerry said it during one of the

[No Exit]

debates.

That aside, I don't believe Iran is near getting its first nuke, but what if they were? The Soviet Union had LOTS of nukes! We were told they were the Ultimate Evil. We were told this for decades! So there we were, with this powerful, evil, frightening enemy, which had nukes on nukes, and... we didn't invade them. And later on, the Soviet Union turned out to be NOT a threat. It caved in like a wet paper bag.

War--especially aggressive, unprovoked war--will never, ever make us safer. It will always result in our being less safe, if we are the aggressors. It's that simple.

The idea that Iran is a dire, immediate, threat to us is LUDICROUS.