[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.

[DentsRun]

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.

Well I wonder. If Hussein were that intent on committing suicide, he could have put 20,000 pounds of plastic explosive in a shipping container anytime in the last ten years and had one hell of an explosion. He doesn't have to wait until he has a nuc. Don't we check shipping containers? Otherwise what's there to prevent people from sending in anthrax, fertilizer bombs, plastic bombs, AK-47s, mortar rounds and short range missiles?

Even if it were easy to get a weapon of mass destruction to the United States in a ship, I still don't understand what's in it for Hussein. Whatever else is wrong with the man he's not a religious fanatic dreaming of 72 virgins. He wants to be remembered for a 1000 years as the heroic leader who saved Iraq, not as the damn fool who got himself (and his country) incinerated in a retaliatory nuclear blast.