Actually, the thing for Saddam to do...if he had say one or two or three nuclear bombs...would be this: Save them as a last ditch revenge weapon if he is invaded and his regime is about to fall, then use them in revenge. He would maybe be able to lob one to Israel (just maybe...but no guarantee) and save the other 2 to detonate on the ground or at very short range by artillery or scud missile onto the American or Coalition forces coming in on his borders. In this way he would at least have the satisfaction of going out in a blaze of glory and killing a whole lot of his enemies before they killed him.

Only a direct invasion of Iraq would be likely to inspire an act this desperate, since it would be a suicidal and final gesture.

The very possession of nuclear weapons by smaller powers is because they are a deterrent to attack, correct? Pakistan has them as a deterrent to India, knowing that India is militarily stronger.

The only way you can force a smaller country to use its nuclear weapons is to invade them and leave them "no other choice", as they see it.

Knowing this, why would Bush invade Iraq? Does he not care about the consequences? Or does he in fact not believe that Saddam has any nuclear weapons?

- LH