[El Gato]

Preemptive use of nukes is too big a policy change to be undertaken like this. This story is either the LA Times playing games or the Pentagon doing the same with Saddam’s people.

It's not pre-emptive if they hit you first. This is also not really a policy change. Using nukes in response to use of other WMDs had been the policy at least since we gave up use of our own "other" WMDs. This is at most a clarification that the policy is indeed still in effect.

[elfman2]

”This is also not really a policy change. Using nukes in response to use of other WMDs had been the policy at least since ”

That’s right. But not what the LA times claimed last week and the WT is repeating.