Tucker Carlson

People around the world are worrying about famine because, of course, oil is not just used to produce gasoline and jet fuel and asphalt and kerosene and all the familiar products.

It's also used to produce fertilizer.

All kinds of petrochemicals used in manufacturing, but fertilizer.

And without it, crop yields go down and people starve in the most populated continent in the world, which would be sub-Saharan Africa.

So already you are seeing a massive human cost, not well reported in American media, to a relatively small spike in global oil prices.

And here you have the president saying, I thought it could be 300 bucks.

That's like saying, well, I thought they might drop a neutron bomb on Chicago.

But, you know, I just wanted to risk it.

No president should ever be willing to talk that casually about the economic destruction of his nation.

The justification for it.

It's worth it, said the president.

because Iran had nuclear weapons and you can't let crazy people have nuclear weapons.

So it's almost not worth rebutting that with the facts, which are as follows.

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

It did not have ICBMs to deliver that weapon here or anywhere near here.

It did not have an active nuclear weapons program and the American intelligence community, all 18 separate agencies determined that conclusively after studying it for years and with the motivation to find nuclear

said nuclear program, they couldn't.

So no, Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

It was nowhere near getting a nuclear weapon, despite the lying you have often heard.

That was not even an imminent threat.