Iraq has no nuclear meat on its bones

Donuel, that's one of the worst mixed metaphors I have ever seen!! :>)

The point is not that they have nuclear capability now, but if their national strategy includes going for it as quickly and as covertly as Blair and W seem to think. It is distinctly unsettling to think of Saddam with a nuclear strike football in his office. Actually I think a regime change is a grand idea. I just do not think we are within our rights to kill in order to effect such a change, unilaterally and without clear-cut facts.

The biowar capability data is equally unsettling. I think a fast thorough deployment of fully-empowered inspectors is essential.

I am reminded of a slo-mo Wild Bill Hickock scenario -- Bush argues that Saddam is effectively slapping leather and wants to outdraw him. This argument is too simpleminded, IMHO, to carry the day.

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