[Senator Pardek]

If he had nukes, he would say "If the U.S. persists in its attack on Afghanistan, we will use them".

He knows we won't use chems or nukes, which means he has zip.

[Campion]

If he had nukes, he would say "If the U.S. persists in its attack on Afghanistan, we will use them".

More likely, he would say nothing. He'd just use them without warning, for maximum shock value.

Big boo-boo on Binnie's part if he really said this. (Pak media makes stuff up all the time, though.) It shows his hand ... looks like a pair of deuces to me, versus our straight flush. I'd say Binnie's a dead man, and he's starting to get a bit nervous as that fact sinks in.

Also, as "Dallas" points out, if we want, we can pop off a 10 or 15 Kt nuke over there and just say, "Hmmm ... must have been OBL having an accident ... not one of ours ... so sorry."