BYPASSED the UN?
IMO: While the UN was coming up
with one excuse after another
to oppose Bush's efforts to
bring them on board (and now
we know WHY Germany, France,
and Russia were so against
taking action), Saddam had
MONTHS to transport his WMD
and other "goodies" to Syria,
Iran, and other holding sites.
I find it a bit out of the
ordinaire that Iran suddenly
announces it has a nuclear
program up and functioning
within months of Saddam's
extraction from the Spider Hole.
Anyone considering how long it
takes to BUILD such a facility?
Well, it's not done overnight!
I'm not so sure there's a commection. When I was living in Boston in 1975, I met a couple of Iranian students from MIT that were part a cohort of 100 promising young individuals that had been sent by the Shah to study Nuclear Engineering. The program was not a secret. A search would turn up articles from that period about the concerns that this would lead to an Iranian bomb.