Those right wing doomdayers, the President and his ilk BELIEVE so much in their Armageddon, that it was probably used to persuade the fence-sitters to go along. That and the oil and propping up our fuel supply.
I can see how they were thinking.

It's sad, really. I mean, where do we go from here?
You have mumblings about using nuclear bunker buster to bomb Iran's nuclear installations, you have Russia sending Iran anti ballistic missiles, you have China and Russia getting together to threaten us and now India tells us to back off Iran. The insanity of the nuclear arms race is back to haunt us with several scenario showdowns.

Will we all be getting a bad case of indigestion soon?