[JoeSixPack1]

Your equation is in error because you are discounting the "insane" factor.

[section9]

This is a possible scenario, but the United States could not allow a foreign power to set off a nuclear weapon and hold the United States blackmail.

We would correctly guess that Saddam was bluffing. We would be right. We would attack Iraq with every weapon in our inventory, and we would set a horrific example to others.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[stylin_geek]

The man sends checks to the families of homicide bombers, gassed people in his own country, started a war with Iran, invaded Kuwait and tried to assassinate a President.

However, he will not use nuclear weapons against the U.S. because he is a rational person.

This article is a waste of space on a web server, and the author is obviously delusional.

[My2Cents]

Precisely correct. "MAD" worked in a world where the adversaries weren't willing to annihilate the world. East and West were sane enough to build nuclear arsenals without using them. Saddam is different...The reason he's so dangerous is precisely that he would risk detonating a nuke in a large metropolitan area, and risk the consequences.