re: People should be more upset with the war powers resolution the house passed yesterday.

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everyone agrees that it was true this time. Iran was very close to having nukes before Trump acted. Except for blueboy,

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The "weeks away" timeline was frequently cited by Israeli officials and the Trump administration to justify military action. In contrast, US intelligence agencies and academic analysts often argued that Iran had not yet authorized a crash program to weaponize its stockpile

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Scientific American: Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say

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Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

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They admit the step from 60% to 90% is very short. They say weeks, other sources, including several I've already quoted in this thread, say on the order of a week. From there, the time to having a nuclear weapon is somewhere from 3 weeks to a few months, depending on how many of the parts Iran has ready to go. China, who has been supplying weapons and war materials to Iran, did it in a month 60 years ago.

Scientific American assumes it will take longer, but offer no evidence. The main part of their argument is that Trump's bombings have degraded Iran's ability to move quickly, which, if true, sounds more like praise than the condemnation they intended. Then they say, "Big claims require big evidence, especially when lives are at stake.” Exactly right. If you're gonna claim they couldn't build a nuke in a few weeks, you need some evidence because many, many lives are at stake.

I'm upset when I am not upset

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Stop. That's just sad.

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I've you don't agree you should read the article more carefully. They were clearly trying to suggest it coud take "up to a year", but that's accounting for the damage Trump has inflicted to their capabilities. Hardly an indictment of the reasons for what's been done. They tried to "disagree" with Trump's original timeframe analysis, but they could only do it by ignoring that Trump's subsequent actions were what lengthened the timeline.

Also, they take great liberties with their logic. For example, they stoop to the level of misinterpreting sources, like last year's intelligence threat assessment. It absolutely does not say that Iran was "nowhere close to a nuclear bomb. What it said was that Iran was not currently "building a weapon", which does not mean they couldn't produce one in a matter of weeks, maybe months, because they could. The non-nuclear components could have been and likely were acquired or manufactured in advance.

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Trump said he totally wiped out their capabilities.

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Of course he did. He said it every few weeks, starting almost immediately after Midnight Hammer was complete, and continuing right up until Mid Febuary, as we were implementing the biggest military deployment in decades. The US and Israel had started planning and coordinating the massive operation Epic Fury months earlier.

Here's a timeline from CNN. They seemingly have no clue why a US president would make this misleading claim repeatedly while we were in the prolonged planning stage of a major attack. Apparently the folks at Scientific American can't figure it out either. Or maybe both did and didn't want to give Trump any credit for his subterfuge. Notice the emphasis on "STOP THE WAR!". But of course it was just paused.

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“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” (June 21)
“It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!” (June 24)
“It knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity.” (July 16)
“It’s been obliterated.” (July 31)
“We obliterated … the future nuclear capability of Iran.” (August 18)
“But I also obliterated Iran’s nuclear hopes, by totally annihilating their enriched uranium.” (September 20)
“Well, they don’t have a nuclear program. It was obliterated.” (October 13)
“… completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability.” (November 11)
“It was called Iran and its nuclear capability, and we obliterated that very quickly and strongly and powerfully.” (November 19)
“We obliterated their nuclear capability.” (December 11)
“We knocked out the Iran nuclear threat, and it was obliterated.” (January 8)
“… obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability.” (January 20)
“… achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability — totally obliterated.” (February 13)

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Trump clearly was not being honest with Iran about what we knew at any point during that time when we were designing and implementing a massive military operation to further prolong their nuclear timeline. The 2025 strikes were to disable their ability to build a bomb quickly. The 2026 strikes were to hit a wider range of targets and degrade their capabilities for a longer period. Everything Trump said during the interim was designed to mislead the enemy into thinking we were done. I think there's more to come in some form or another.