"and how precisely to you think they would do that? With 1) what warheads? 2) what delivery system?"
"If building and deploying nukes was easy everyone would have done it by now..."
A non-argument! Those systems are readily available from the Chinese on the world arms market. If the truth were known they've been a part of Saddam's arsenal for some time now.
A lot of countries already have deployed nukes. Even countries like India and Pakistan that have trouble feeding their own populations.
If you will remember your High School History lessons- it was the "peace at all costs" attitude that got us into wider conflicts in both WWI and WWII.
So which is it? Does Iraq have these weapons or will they soon have? and if they do and want nothing other than our destruction, why were they not used as soon as they were operational.
Sorry but you'll have to do more to convince me. I have no doubt that Iraq wants nukes, it would give themna vary big stick to wave about. But to say that they have or soon will have the capability to strike the US doesn't hold water in my opinion. (Israel is another story)