The war in Iraq, whose purpose was the destruction of Saddam Hussein's development facilities and stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but which led to America's miring in the Iraqi swamp, has increased the attraction of nuclear weapons. After all, it would have been much simpler and more logical to destroy Saddam's facilities with a few 'small bombs,' which would not have caused any real damage to the civilian population, than to become entangled in a ground war that has resulted in 150,000 American soldiers treading water in the Iraqi swamp.

oh, the reason you guys didn't find any stockpiles of WMDs is because they were destroyed by nukes.

After all, it would have been much simpler and more logical to destroy Saddam's facilities with a few 'small bombs,' which would not have caused any real damage to the civilian population

wah huh whut? wow the looking glass is really different on this side.

'CONPLAN 8022 is a series of operational plans prepared by Startcom, the U.S. Army's Strategic Command, which calls for preemptive nuclear strikes against Iran and North Korea.'

Well , I guess that completely rules out letting Iran and North Korea nuke us first.

^ yeah... it seems that whole pre-emptive thing works out pretty well.

Well, the humans have at least one endearing quality after all.