We cannot find it, Mr. Bush. We cannot find it, Mr. Rumsfeld. We cannot find it, Mr. Cheney. Please do not start this war.
Robert Joseph
The Public Record
If you are the Iranians, you really do not want to run the risk of the United States and the P5+1 all agreeing that a conventional military attack on their nuclear facilities is, in fact, justified at any point in time.
We disrespected the IAEA or the Bush administration disrespected the IAEA. It undermined its credibility.
I do not think that there is any case to suggest that we made the wrong decision in 2003 to take out Libya's nuclear weapons program.
We don't back up what we say. We don't impose consequences for red lines that are established and then crossed.
The Russians have no interest, and they have said so explicitly, no interest in arms control, whether it is for offensive, strategic forces, or for their theater forces.
Mr Chairman, I have heard the same talking points from missile defense critics for really the past 30 years.
I think there is a strong ideological dimension to it, and I think that is there is a sense that there is an arm--on our part, there is an arms control solution to every problem.