Teribus:

http://www.commondreams./org/views03/0126-01.htm

William Arkin, the military anaylist for the Los Angeles Times wites this past week in an article entitled, "The Nuclear Option in Iraq: The US lowers the Bar for Using the Ultimate Weapon."

"At the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha and inside planning cells of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, target lists are being scruntinized, oiptions are being pondered and procedures are tested to give nuclear armaments a role in the new US doctrine of preemption."

"...The current nuclear planning, revealed in interviews and described in documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, is being carried out at STRATCOM's Ohmaha headquarters and among small teams in Washington and at Vice President's 'undiclosed location' in Pennsylvania."

Now on to Bush:

"The U.S. military and appropriate civilian agencies possess the *full range* of operational capabilities to counter the threat and use of WMD..."

Hmmmmm? Well, so Bush has said that Iraq is a threat, so given testimony and documents that the L.A. Times have been privied to, coupled with Bush's own words, I don't consider it to far off the wall to bring up the strong possibility of nuclear weapons being used by the US in Iraq.

Bobert