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Perhaps you prefer the Bill Clinton approach of telling everyone what you're NOT willing to do, or that you're almost out of cruise missiles. Pure genius, that one.
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Get Saddham's attention? Are you serious? We've got troops engaged in a shooting war on his back porch. The US and UK have dropped not so subtle hints about bitch slapping Iraq again. It is unreasonable to think that Saddham has forgotten that world's largest nuclear stockpile belongs to the US. Saddham is playing a different political game than just grabbing land and I don't think the US public has the whole story on this.
Nukes are stupid. The environmental damage even from small warheads will affect the US. Remember a few months ago, there was a Texas-sized dust cloud the flew over the Pacific and affected the US? Would that that had been irradiated dust. Making a threat you're not willing to back up is very, very dangerous.
The other way of deterring attacks by foreign powers is by being a good neighbor. You know: following internation pollution control initiatives like the Kyoto Protocols, paying the UN our back dues, not making sanctimonious condemnations of China's human rights violations while maintaining Camp X-Ray.
While I'm not suggesting the world is a happy-fun place with bright shiny people, I am saying that US foreign policy, particularly under George W., has done more to antagonize the world community than the past two administrations (Reagan was an ass, but Bush's dad wasn't so bad).
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It's not a question of knowing or forgetting. He knew it in '90 and he knows it now. He just doesn't *care*.
Nukes are stupid. The environmental damage even from small warheads will affect the US.
The whole world *knows* that. In the case of Iraq, they're hardly necessary either. Hell, I was mad when I found out we were using uranium depleted shells against them, which ended up irradiating
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2. The Kyoto Protocols are lame. Condoning them would be be bad. Condoning something bad is not being good to anyone, least of all your neighbors.
3. You have a problem with CAMP X