John Kiriakou

You know, in the 91 Gulf War and in 03, the State Department initiated this policy called burden sharing.

Really what it is was a nice way of saying, we want all of our allies to pay for this.

But it worked.

The Kuwaitis in 1990, the year that they were invaded by Iraq, for the very first time in their history, they made more from their investments than they made from oil.

So they had this bottomless pit of money.

They paid for most of the liberation of their own country, but the Europeans also paid.

And so it ended up not costing us anything.

We went down the burden sharing road again in 2003, and a lot of it came out of our own pockets, but our European and Gulf allies also paid for it.

This time, nobody was consulted.

And so this is all coming from our own pockets.

And I think that's unsustainable over the long term.

There was no nuclear program.

They had partially enriched uranium, certainly, which under the NPT, they're allowed to do.

It's subject to United Nations inspection.

No nuclear weapons program.

You know, I'm glad that you brought that up too, because that is also not true.

And a lot of people are saying it.

The Iranians did something recently that was...

interesting in that they took they took two of their medium range missiles they stripped them down to the point where it was just the missile and the engine and that was it there was nothing inside of them just to see how much distance they could get and they made it almost to diego garcia which is far

So if you instead point them toward Europe, yes, without anything inside these missiles, they could reach Western Europe.