[Man of the Right]

The casus belli is selling nukes, plutonium or nuclear technology. Unfortunately, this can be done through China with China's connivance. However, if they're dumb enough to ship it by sea, there's a good chance they'll be stopped by the U.S. or coalition (Japan, Australia, India) navies in international waters. Proof that nuclear materials have been shipped could trigger an all-out U.S. pre-emptive nuclear strike. I don't think Bush would have a chance, and I don't think he'd shrink from his responsibility. Every one's eyes are focused on Iraq, but North Korea poses a greater threat of the big one. Once nukes or plutonium are in terrorist hands, it would be next to impossible to prevent a nuclear strike in the U.S. without turning the country into a perfect police state. The American people do not understand the consequences of such a detonation. The experience would turn even some Democrats into Jacksonian nuke-'em-until-they-glow-then-shoot-'em advocates. Our various enemies are skating on thin ice. They should study our Civil War and the 1944-45 strategic bombing campaigns in Germany and Japan if they're in doubt how Americans react if faced with an implacable threat.

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Proof that nuclear materials have been shipped could trigger an all-out U.S. pre-emptive nuclear strike.

Hope we got some smallish ones...we're downwind.

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