Edward Markey actually said...

"Can you imagine a scenario where a President of the United States would not feel compelled to take the necessary action in order to ensure that Iran did not have a nuclear weapon in the 2020s?"

"In other words--no. The point I am making here is that we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapons program and we invaded them."

"I think it is such an American interest to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And of course, that has been our policy since the Reagan administration."

"But Bush decided to violate this kind of trust with the IAEA and now Iran took the wrong message from it."