Bill Kristol posits, as many on the right have, that our invasion of Iraq is what caused Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program.

Let me count the ways this is stupid. First of all, if anything, Iran would have determined, as North Korea did at the time, that nukes were necessary to defend themselves and beefed up their program instead of drawing down.

Not having WMD worked out just swell for Iraq, right?

Second, diplomacy, that thing that Bill Clinton and yes George H.W. Bush practiced, is what brought North Korea back to the table and eventually convinced Libya to give up their weapons program. Not the fear of our attacking them and failing as miserably as The Decider has in Iraq.

Here is Think Progress on this silly right-wing notion:

Libya did not give up its nuclear weapons program in 2003 because of the Iraq war. As Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Joseph Cirincione noted, negotiations with Libya stretched "over three administrations," resulting in a deal that "cost little, caused no deaths, and was 100 percent effective." At the time, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair called the news a "victory for diplomacy."

Conservatives think they're entitled to their own opinions and facts. It is why this administration and six years of a Republican Congress failed at literally everything.

Well, except increasing the demand for hookers and raising gas prices while whoring themselves out to Big Oil.....