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Thats what nuclear weapons are for. Instant annihilation.

You still don't get it. Saddam can only die once. We could kill Saddam easily -- it wouldn't take nuclear weapons to do it either. But we don't. Why? Because we are in a Mutual Assured Destruction standoff with Saddam. That what's the anthrax letters mean. Saddam is telling Bush: "Point the finger at me, and you'll regret it." Almost 18 months later, Bush still hasn't pointed the finger. No way would Saddam launch an attack on the US mainland of the scale of 9/11 without cast-iron back-end security. The powder in the letter to Daschle tells us he has cast-iron back-end security.

MAD is not that difficult a concept to figure out or to subvert. You do remember how loud the Soviet Union got when we were putting Medium range ballistics on their door step in Western Europe and how loud they got when Reagan was planning on a missile defense. And you do remember how close the MAD principal was tested during the Cuban Missile crisis. Bottom line is the infiltrators and Saddam plants have been under investigation. Its not that hard to find Iraqis with money and no jobs. How will Saddam know his 'assests' are still in place and have not been comprimised ? At any rate, as I have pointed out all along, this situation warrants a first strike. Whatever assests he has in place will have to commit their acts knowing full well that what they are fighting for is finished. Gone. Totally annihilated.

The powder in the letter to Daschle tells us he has cast-iron back-end security.

Looks like the cast iron is getting a bit rusty.