David E. Sanger

Right in a previous attack.

That's right.

That was in the June attack on the three major enrichment sites.

He talked about their missile developments.

He talked about 32,000 Iranian protesters who had been killed during the uprisings last month.

We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of

serious violence.

But what was strange about this, Michael, was he never used the moment to explain what he was trying to accomplish with all of that military firepower sitting off of Iran.

Was he trying to stop the nuclear program or overthrow the regime or protect the protesters?

He simply did not say.

And that's the one thing that everybody was listening for the most.

He said the Iranians had not given him the one thing he wanted to hear.

We will never have a nuclear weapon.

Well, of course, the Iranians have said that many times.

In fact, their foreign minister tweeted it out a few hours before the speech.

But the problem isn't what the Iranians say.

It's what they've been caught doing at various points over the past few years.

He came up with a causus belli, or actually four or five.

But he never told us how the application of...

military power, how bombing the Iranians would change this.