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And someone who thinks God told him to invade Iraq isn't the safest bet either.
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I ignore what an individual American might say - I trust in the safety systems that don't allow a single person to make a firing decision. I trust in a country where I know democracy is working.
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Lets face it the whole nuclear thing is like an exclusive country club.
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Yup - it is a VERY exclusive club, and one that doesn't need any
more members!
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The big countries are happy to continue wasting huge amounts of money on nuclear weapons
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I think you'll find none of the present members of the club are expending any money on acquiring nukes. In fact, many have
reduced their stockpile.
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but when someone else wants to join the club they start throwing their toys out the pram until they need something from the country (like Pakistan, once the US needed to base planes there to bomb the hell out of Afghanistan them testing nuclear weapons was quietly forgotten about)
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It was never forgotten, quietly or otherwise. There was, and still is, a lot of concern over Pakistan and India and their nuclear ambitions. Mostly because we fear they'll use them on each other.
As for America 'bombing the hell out of Afghanistan' - that was hardly some unilateral, unjustified action they took. The Taliban are despots - even worse than Saddam ever was. Can you imagine what the Taliban would do if they got their hands on nukes?
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Ahem.
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One officer's opinion.
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There have been plenty of other articles from various sources that the plan for after Saddam wasn't thought out in anywhere as much detail as was needed.
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Any soldier knows - the plan is the first casualty of war. They could NEVER have planned for the outcome they got - only for the one they would have liked. Once that changes, then you just adjust the plan to suit.