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To: carranza2 who wrote (136400)	6/12/2004 3:21:13 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The solution is really quite simple: if Saddam used a nuclear weapon first against anybody, we would respond with a complete annihilation of any place in Iraq that could conceivably harbor other nuclear weapons. If it involved wiping out all of Iraq, so be it. That's what it means when we say a country (such as Kuwait or South Korea) is under our nuclear umbrella protection. We are the only ones with credibility regarding using nukes, since we are the only country that used them. And we have a well earned reputation of being pretty aggressive, even before this war. We have lived for many years under the MAD doctrine with the Soviet Union (and now Russia). Don't you think that the situation between North Korea and us is right now very similar to the hypothetical situation between a nuclear armed Saddam and us? I don't detect any sense of urgency about resolving that situation in either the administration or in you.

To: carranza2 who wrote (136400)	6/12/2004 9:36:03 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Good job C2, but I am afraid you are wasting your time. But the non believers here will appreciate the importance of the Persian Gulf region sooner or later. The next 20 years wont be pretty as the world becomes increasingly more dependent on the stable oil flow fron the Persian Gulf. Simple minds look back to the 1970's and think, we survived. The next time when oil flow stops from SA because of war we will be feeling like the 1930's, only we all will have allot longer fall before hitting bottom.