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> You desperately overestimate the amount of loss that
> the US is willing to have anyone inflict on Tel Aviv
> or Haifa, or the amount of loss that Israel is willing
> to suffer before doing something desperate. What do
> you figure would be acceptable losses from the US
> point of view for SH to have inflicted on Israel?
> 5,000 deaths? 10,000? 50,000?
You missed my point. No matter how many CBW Iraq had, they didn't have any reliable means available to get them to Israel (I believe this is something the war planners claimed to knoew). BTW, you've been assuming that the war planners didn't believe the threat of going nuclear would work as a deterrent during the second Gulf War as it presumably did during the first. (Though I admit that there was good reason to think that it would have less deterrence value given the different professed goals of the two wars.)
-- Luke
> How long do think the
> Israelis would await after a chemical or biological
> attack to do something everyone would regret -- 15
> minutes, maybe? jks