Your claims about the supposed threat to the US from Iraq are the ones that have gone completely unsubstantiated.
I've seen NOTHING, either from Nadine, or GWBjr for that matter, stating that Iraq was a direct threat to the US.
If I'm mistaken, please indicate where you have seen these comments, providing links or quotes.
However, I have seen germane and logical arguments made that Iraq INDIRECTLY threatened US interests by way of its continued aggressive stance in the Persian Gulf.
I've also made the argument that permitting Saddam to remain in power threatened the regions economic and political progress. A progress so critical to stemming the reactionary trend towards Islamic militancy.
As for Israel and their likely nuclear arsenal, it's also a democracy. And no legitimate democracy, to this day, has ever attacked another legitimate democracy with nuclear weapons. In fact, no legitimate democracy has ever attacked, or engaged in military conflict with a peer democracy. So maybe the best defense the Arab world has to counter any "threat" from the Israelis is for them to ALSO become legitimate democracies??
Also, Israel is the only alleged nuclear power which has not publicly tested its arsenal (though probably did so secretly with S. Africa). So there goes your concept of "will to use them".. They'll use them when they recognize the existence of Israel is at stake. But at the moment, they don't even want to acknowledge publicly that they even exist.
Can you say the same for a non-democratic Arab nuclear armed state?
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