Reply #21: Neo con wish list.

[westerebus]

I don't believe any senior officer will allow the use of nukes unless we are attacked with NBC weapons. The risks are to great.
We could have used them (one) against Saddam in a surgical strike in 1991. We didn't. The North Koreans are a better target for nukes than the Iranians.
Sustained conventional strikes with air and missiles that cause damage just short of a nuke is within our capacity. No one else in the neighborhood has the capacity or means to maintain that intense an air campaign.
If its a nuke, that leaves the nation state of Israel. Unless they are willing to nuke the rest of the arabic world, I don't see that happening.
There is lots of posturing and proclamations by the Bush WH and neocons. The last wish list of the neo cons is a fiasco and deteriorating rapidly.
I'm not overly optimistic about Bush's intension's given the current disaster in Iraq. The president serves the people,not the other way around. Time for congress to force him to request a declaration of war for Iraq. No request, no declaration, no funds, shorter war. He will send a supplemental bill to congress for Iraq, attach a war powers act provision to the that one.
How about a war tax? 75% of all assets,income,stocks,bonds,etc on those with $3 million in total holdings. Seems fair to me. Refundable when Bush resigns. Let him veto that.