Thus they could kill and intimidate their way as they always do, with the US forces in Iraq, hamstrung and far away, and the “soft target” in the US unable to respond.

I thought there were always planes circling the skies above us, laden with nukes, prepared to retaliate on a moment’s notice should anyone be foolish enough to do something foolish. Would we *really* respond to Pakistan/Afghanistan with boots on the ground if an American city were nuked?

If you’ll remember the days immediately after 9/12, if Bush had not done something authoritative and demostrable, he would have been impeached. And we, the citizens of the United States of America, would have continued impeaching SOBs until we got one who *would* go over to the Middle East and kick some serious Arab butt.

You can’t convince me that even B Hussein could withstand a tsunami like that if the terrorists were actually to get lucky enough to explode a nuclear bomb on American soil.