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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (286163)	8/12/2002 11:39:55 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

re:"what do you think Saddam will do with his bomb that makes him such a threat. The USSR had tens of thousands of bombs for decades" What a comfort you are! First of all, Iraq is not the same as the Soviet Union. And I can remember reading about three times that, nuclear war was a definite possibility, during the Cold War (and there were only three parties not many). Do you think the world is so much safer now that Pakistan and India have nuclear bombs and missiles to place them on? Iran reportedly has possibly hundreds of fomerly unemployed Soviet nuclear and rocket scientists now living in Tehran. Because, well, if the Iraqis are working on a nuclear weapon, the Iranians better have one too. And of course it a relief to know that North Korea, seems to be willing to sell its ballistic missiles, to anyone that has the cash. United States and the Soviet Union were not in actual combat during the Cold War. Further, the United States and the Soviets did not allow their proxies who were fighting to have nuclear weapons. Now you are going to have a situation, where in hot wars, direct combatants will have nuclear weapons.