Re: Where is he going to use it who/why
One good-sized nuke would take out our only real ally in the Mideast.
Isreal is, if you look at a map, a really tiny country. With the right winds, a halfway dirty bomb could obliterate it. Two or three could turn it into a glass plain. If he has a delivery system. A suicide bomber wouldn't be suitable. A SCUD is unreliable. Experienced agents? Mmmm.... might be possible, even with the Mossad trying to search them out.
Saudi? Har. A nominal ally. Kuwait? Possible, but if he has two of 'em he could take them out also.
It's an argument about him not having any (yet) or biological agents (yet). I tend to agree with people who think that bio agents wouldn't be as effective as the scaremongers would have us thing; good sanitation and cleanliness helps. Lots. And chem attacks (which he's shown he has some expertise in) would be open warfare. I don't think Saddam is as crazy as that.
I think.
The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
