Iran's Nukes

This story suggests that military action probably would not destroy Iran's nuclear weapons research, but could possibly delay them for a significant period of time. The article makes a comparison to Israel's destruction of Iraq's reactor, and then comes up with this incredible line:

But instead of stopping him from pursuing the bomb, Saddam went underground and worked in secret until the program was uncovered by the U.N. nuclear watchdog in 1991.

So the IAEA just happened to uncover this in 1991?? I seem to recall 500,000 US and coalition troops were somewhat involved in this uncovering. But of course, to al-Reuters and Louis Charbonneau, that whole military thing doesn't accomplish anything, so why even mention it.