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Foolish foolish talk. Will we atom bomb Germany and Italy too where many Middle Easterners reside, many with ties to these cells? Will Canada be after that? How about Mexico? How about London? They are there as well. All this nuclear bravado is nothing more than frustration being exhibited by people who can't think beyond their front door. And after we have nuked them all into submission, we'll be dealing with radiation in our milk, meat and water for a long time to come. I think you better give a bit more thought to the use of nuclear not as a first, but a last choice.

"I think you better give a bit more thought to the use of nuclear not as a first, but a last choice."

While we, as a nation have sworn off the use of WMD in a first strike capacity, we have reserved the option of using them in response. This is the precise doctrine that kept saddam from employing chem or bio during the Gulf war. If you don't view four fuel laden jet liners deliberately targeted at significant targets as WMD, then that is your opinion, and you are entitled to it.

It is no (big) secret that biowarfare theorists have postulated about genetically specific bioweapons that would target certain populations, and pass, like the angel of death, over other households. It's time to kick these programs into overdrive. That is my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.

The consequence of waiting until using the most decisive weapons is that you have to wait until you are damaged hard enough to warrant their use. Understand? Escalation implies further pain and suffering.

Knowing that it is possible that further trama can be inflicted upon our nation, it is prudent that we use EVERY method at our disposal to assure that we can control and limit the damage.

The ground rules are quite clear. No one is advocating the wanton and indiscriminate use of massive nuclear retalitation on any country that harbors terrorists. But, instead, the debate is limited wholly to the rapid use of significant force before the ENEMY uses force on us. Key countries that played an active role in the harboring of this unorthodox method of war is and shall be treated as the Agressor nation.

They and only they have something to fear. Americans will not wait until New York City is destroyed to launch a nuclear preemptive strike.

Don't get hysterical. If we use 0.2 Meg enhanced blast bunker busters they will not contaminate the world. I would like to see us employ FAEs first though. The main beef I have with our strategy is that we didn't unleash our bombers on the Taliban front lines before they got a chance to dig to China.

Foolish foolish talk. Will we atom bomb Germany and Italy too where many Middle Easterners reside, many with ties to these cells? Will Canada be after that? How about Mexico? How about London? They are there as well. All this nuclear bravado is nothing more than frustration being exhibited by people who can't think beyond their front door. And after we have nuked them all into submission, we'll be dealing with radiation in our milk, meat and water for a long time to come. I think you better give a bit more thought to the use of nuclear not as a first, but a last choice.

I agree. Well said

"Nuc em all" sounds good and is emotionally satisfying, but impossible because of all the reasons stated above and others.