i definately think that there are enough bombers and sure a bit of live target practice never goes astray. but they have to be sure what it is they are going to bomb, they have to 1) get every nuke thing they have and 2) don't blow up some hospital with a radiology department becasue it shows signs of radioactivity. 1) will be very hard as we are always told that a lot of this stuff is under ground and if it is anything like the bunkers sadam had then they are in trouble, there was a program on bbc i think last week about one of his bunkers, could survive a nuke 200m away. they dropped a bunker buster or two on it and the inside was grand! 2) intelligence has been a contradiction in terms, esp for the us in recent years, not just wmd but chineese embassys etc, so i really don't trust them to get it right first time and if they don't the last thing you want is an angry person with a nuke, even if it is an unsophisticated dirty bomb.

>>i don't think that russia will want to commit forces and neither would china, and the us and uk are too over stretched with iraq to invade so it would have to be a bombing run by someone, possibly israel again. only problem is if you don't get them all and they do have nukes... as tom says large hole where israel is but then israel would counter with the nukes that they (don't) have and so the entire region is gone. now i don't know if that is THE solution to the problems there but it is A solution. i think that the only thing that will work is UN monitors and lots of them and also sanctions for looking in the wrong direction.
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>But you don't think The US and UK have enough bombers, missiles, whatever to send in a short sharp shock?
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>How about Ireland? You guys haven't come up with much! :-)