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Robert Joseph: “We would not have invaded if he had a nuclear weapons program.”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
We would not have invaded if he had a nuclear weapons program.
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Robert Joseph

Editor's note · Context

Assertion that the presence of nuclear weapons would have prevented the Iraq invasion.

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Not only did the Obama administration cancel the third site, it canceled every single program that was designed to develop capabilities to keep pace with the threat.

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I think Iran will use nuclear weapons. They will use it to intimidate. They will use it to blackmail us.

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Once you allow Iran to maintain and in fact under this agreement expand a large-scale infrastructure for enrichment, the agreement in and of itself explicitly recognizes at that point Iran as a nuclear weapons threshold state.

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It is certainly better that Iran, at declared facilities, is spinning fewer centrifuges rather than more centrifuges.

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