The "Iran Can Build a Nuclear Weapon in a Week!" Bullshit

I went over this in greater detail in an earlier post which is now paywalled unless you bought a sub.

Everybody’s saying that, right? I was over at Moon of Alabama, and those idiots started parroting this. Worse, they said that this was what Scott Ritter said. I posted that if Ritter said that, he was a Goddamned idiot, and I laughed at all of them and him.

That started a huge flame war where the theme was, “Who are you to impugn the mighty nuclear weapons knowledge of the great Scott Ritter you tiny miserable peon?” I don’t give a flying fuck who Scott Ritter is or what his credentials are. If he’s wrong, he’s wrong.

They said I was no journalist, etc. etc. Well, what does it take to be a real one? I have a degree in the field. Should be good enough, right? Turned into a big fight and pretty soon I got accused of being a troll and thrown off the board.

I could care less. What they were saying was profoundly stupid, and it wasn’t even correct, so I rightly took them to task over it. Li…