[MineralMan]

"The dems certainly don't have the testicular fortitude to push the button."

Since we have only used nuclear weapons twice in history, and since a Democrat, Harry S. Truman, authorized their use, I guess you'd be wrong there.

[eastforker]

Yes, but with Truman that was an offensive move, Lets say we are under a threat, maybe real or not.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Those" democrats (of FDR and Truman's era) - EVEN THOUGH MANY DID support Communism (and socialism! - were patriots in the larger view.

TODAY'S democrats are NOT patriots in ANY view, and are (if anything) morally bound to the UN and their international socialist agenda.

NO democrat running for president (Lieberman "possibly" excepted) could be trusted to defend to US ... To the point where Clinton himself claimed he WOULD NOT fire a nuke at a known enemy EVEN IF ONE HAD EXPLODED over a US city.

That's right, he claimed he would NOT fire back (even one of two, much less a large number) .. Not on "warning" of a launch, confirmation of trajectory data, NOR explosion of the warhead.

So, if he would not fire AFTER an explsoion ... Are you going to expect anybody but Dean to fire a nuke?

Dean, of course, would have fired a nuke at the Waco complex.

(Clark simply burned them alive with conventional tanks and flames, after making sure there were no fire trucks available.)

[TheDon]

The Democratic Party - The only party to authorize the use of a atomic weapon.

[Snowy]

Since we have only used nuclear weapons twice in history, and since a Democrat, Harry S. Truman, authorized their use, I guess you'd be wrong there.

You are correct. However, I was thinking about today's democrats.