Also: Khadafy. We asked him to not pursue nukes (and for whatever reason he didn't). When there was unrest in his country the European powers (first) and the US (later) struck him. They would have never done that if he had a nuke.

Now we have regime change and Libya is a paradise. /s

One of the problems with all of this is we may hate the government, but in getting rid of it we don't get anything better.