[garbanzo]

So a nuclear-armed Saddam doesn't bother you in the slightest? No chance that he'll give or sell a nuclear weapon or anthrax to terrorists in your universe I presume. Let's just keep believing that UN commissions will protect us from nuclear proliferation like they prevented India, Pakistan, and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. Of course Saddam can be contained - we'll hit back after he destroys New York and/or LA unless the peaceniks determine that we deserved it for attempting to remove him from power.

[Burkeman1]

No it doesn't bother me in the slitghtest. As it wouldn't seem to bother Bush either. If Iraq blasted off a nuke bomb test tomorrow suddenly we would engage in "constructive dialouge" with him like we are doing now with the far more unstable and insance North Korea and like we do with Pakistan and India. Any talk of war against Iraq qould evaporate tommorrow if Sadaam had a nuke are could really threaten us in any way.