Originally Posted by: stacknyIm sorry, I cant take it. This bothers me everytime I look at this thread. Bush wants wmd out of the hands of terrorists. Wed be virtually a sitting duck if we didnt have the same thing that the enemies had. The US hasnt proposed a threat to anyone with our wmd. The A Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasiki was just plain over kill. We didnt understand the power of atomic bombs at the time.
I want to talk to the person who honestly thinks the US is a threat with a wmd unless it was in retaliation for somebody hitting us with a wmd. And I still cant see us gassing innocent people in retaliation.
No, we were pretty aware of their power, having tested them.