Scared yet?

Does this sound familiar?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iran used negotiations with the European Union to play for time and has now achieved the ability to both develop nuclear weapons and deliver them, a senior Bush administration official said Monday.
At a news conference at the Foreign Press Center, Robert G. Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control, cited "tremendous resources" as well as a "very sophisticated, a very advanced scientific and technical community" as helpful to Iran.
He offered no assessment of how long it might take Iran to produce nuclear weapons.

There's a reason for that last bit; if he had said "ten years," it wouldn't scare people into voting Republican in the midterms. The fear factor is their trump card; it's all they have. Never mind Iraq, Katrina, the Medicare drug fiasco and their general corruption and incompetence. Only the GOP can protect you from the sinister ayatollahs.
A nuclear-armed Iran would be a bad thing, as bad as nuclear-armed India and Pakistan and North Korea. But any Iranian attempt to actually use a nuke would be the end of Iran.
UPDATE: It's working.