So could you or so could I!!
Now stuff like this is only meant to terrify, scare, sway public opinion. When the government is doing this, you know they are up to know good. Well, anyone except a knee-jerk conservative, a dittohead, a conservative Carville would know.
"Iraq could produce a nuclear bomb within six months if it acquired core materials"
As could Singapore, Tanzania, Denmark, Sweden, Libya and my great aunt Harriet.
Duh! Welcome home, Donald.