Ivan Eland writing for The Independent Institute on Look to Iran for the Real Costs of the War in Iraq:
The Bush administration is apparently astonished and concerned to learn that Iran has hastened its drive to get nuclear weapons. Would an American military presence in neighboring nations on two sides of that country — in Iraq and Afghanistan — have anything to do with that acceleration?
Countries like Iran (and Libya, Syria and the many other nations seeking weapons of mass destruction) noted that the United States invaded Iraq — a nation without nuclear weapons — but treated North Korea — a nation that went out of its way to inform the United States about its possession of nuclear weapons — much more gingerly. If you were an Iranian leader, what would you do?
Way to go! More nukes! Yes!!!!
Idiots.