and none of the prospective strike options presume that, although general cartwright who hoss cartwrig cartwright, testified about two years ago that the only way you would permanent lit end iran's military program through military action would be to invade and occupy iran. short of that all you do is delay. that's actually where i think the iraq analogies historically matter the most. the first iraq war related to its wmd program was not in 2003, it was in 1981 when the israelis struck the nuclear facility. it didn't stop the program. it just droevt program underground. when inspectors arrived after our war with iraq they realized saddam was a lot closer to getting a weapon because he had an infrastructure nobody knew about spurred on by the strike in 1981. not only did we have the 1981 gulf war but 1 years of containment, isolation, sanctions intrusive inspections followed by a ground ipvation in 2003 and regime change. so the lesson of iraq is you might be able to start this with a surgical strike. but that's not where it's going to end. and if we're going to contemplate military action in ira