[DentsRun]

What factual basis do you have to doubt that Saddam would ever use WMD? Based on his historical behavior and thirst for revenge, I think there's a good chance he would use nukes against America and Britain.

Saddam is no threat to the U.S. Even Netanyahu says he won't have a missile capable of hitting the U.S. for another "ten to fifteen years." The country that he's really a threat to is Israel, which blew up his first nuclear power plant in 1981. But Bush can't come out and say we're attacking Iraq to defend Israel. The arabs would go nuts. Same thing if Israel attacked Hussein on her own. The Mideast would go up in flames. Israel would become a pariah nation. So we have to attack Hussein on the grounds he's a threat to world stablility and a personal threat to us. No wonder the Europeans aren't buying it. We aren't telling the truth.

[defenderSD]

He doesn't need a missile to attack us with nukes. He just has to put the nuke in a shipping container on a boat headed for New York harbor (or Norfolk, Jacksonville, etc.). In this case, there's nothing we could do to stop the attack unless the Coast Guard happens to inspect and search that ship. I don't think we can inspect all the ships entering our ports. Please see my post #79.