[goldstategop]

I've never forgiven Reagan for not dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran after our hostages were released. That would meant 9/11 would have never happened and we would all be living in a much safer world today. The Iranians have gotten away with torturing and killing Americans and breaking all the rules of civilization and they've never paid a real price for their thuggish behavior.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[mkjessup]

I've never forgiven Reagan for not dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran after our hostages were released.

I am, and have been as much in favor of nuking the mullahs in Tehran as anyone, but if Reagan had taken such an action in '81, an actual nuclear response to Iran, the Soviets (you remember them I'm sure), bordering Iran would not have taken kindly to the radiation and fallout, and there is always the possibility that an American nuke release that close to the old USSR could have triggered a Soviet nuclear response on the United States.

There is a time and place for the use of nuclear weapons. That was not it.

Now it is.