I remember that one. That was something Reagan had going for him in spades...the universal belief that "Yes, I will reduce all of your cities to glowing rubble!" In fact, I remember seeing interviews with people in his adminstration who were instructed to quietly play to that behind the scenes foreign relations. In fact, Bush 41 made sure that Baker communicated that to the Iraqi foreign minister. Something along the lines of "the American people will demand a nuclear strike" and that he would give them what they wanted if our troops were gassed. Dubya needs to get that point across.