A few minutes ago I viewed a video of Wolf Blitzer (CNN) interviewing Seymour Hersch.

It was interesting, to say the least. Hersch's position is that when the war department, the Pentagon, put on the table for the Administration all the conceivable options that could negate Iran as a nuclear threat they included the tactical nuke option.

Accoring to Hersch Iran's nuclear facility is 75 underground, under hard rock.

Hersch said that during the Cold War, the USSR too had its nuclear facilities 75 feet underground under rock, and that the US considered that the only way to break through and take it out was by nuclear means.

That has been translated to fit the current situation. Today, of course, we have capabilities that were not available 40 years ago: limited, tactical weapons that seem to some as of limited danger to the rest of the world. For that reason, my guess would be that we are far more likely to utilize the measure. According to Hersch, Bush thinks that it is up to him and him alone, of all the Presidents to come, to eliminate Iran's nuclear capabilities.

The Pentagon, according to Hersch, after having listed the nuclear option, then asked the White House to remove that option so that the war department could know that it is NOT being considered. The White House allegedly refused.

World opinion, miscalculations, lack of foresight, the morality os such a action- all those and much more would seem not to be seriously considered.