Originally posted by u10ajf
[QUOTE]Nuclear weapons, by contrast, are DEFINITELY broad-spectrum world-****ers. Bear in mind though that whatever they might want to do to the rest of the world their shares still demand that they retain some kind of market to sell crap to.

In an open exchange, yes. Bush's statement was undoubtedly to discourage Saddam Hussein from using chemical and biological weapons, in effect attempting to bring the MAD principal (Mutually Assured Destruction) that helped prevent a US/Soviet nuclear exchange into this new conflict.

How smart time may prove that to be, I have no idea. I do know that the US or ideally, a coalition of nations involving the US could very effectively fight Saddam with conventional weapons.