nterestedforeigner wrote

• At 12:09pm on 23rd Mar 2011, Interestedforeigner wrote:
  From the BBC:
  
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  0202: Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense, tweets: "There's a reason Gadhafi isn't contemplating using a nuclear/radiological weapon today: He saw what happened to Saddam."
  
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  No, the reason he isn't using nuclear weapons or dirty bombs is because he, like the unlamented Mr. Hussein, doesn't have them.
  
  If you think for an instant that this sociopath wouldn't use those weapons in the blink of an eye to obliterate, let's say, Benghazi, you clearly haven't been paying attention to his behaviour.
  
  This isn't going to end until the guy is dead or captured. Look at his personality. He wants to be Napoleon, and if he can't, then his Norma Desmond moment is to bring some kind of Wagnerian Gotterdamerung down upon his nation as he himself is destroyed: "I'm ready for my scene now, Mr. DeMille."
  
  Wake up and smell the coffee. We're not dealing with Marcus Welby, M.D.
  
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• 97. At 13:09pm on 23rd Mar 2011, mscracker wrote:
  @96:
  Speaking of Hollywood, to me, Gadhafi looks like Mel Brooks impersonating Gadhafi.
  
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• 98. At 13:34pm on 23rd Mar 2011, powermeerkat wrote:
  Re #97
  
  
  Speaking of Hollywood : Elisabeth Taylor has died.
  
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• 99. At 13:39pm on 23rd Mar 2011, AndreaNY wrote:
  96. Interestedforeigner:
  "From the BBC:
  
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  0202: Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense, tweets: "There's a reason Gadhafi isn't contemplating using a nuclear/radiological weapon today: He saw what happened to Saddam."
  
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  No, the reason he isn't using nuclear weapons or dirty bombs is because he, like the unlamented Mr. Hussein, doesn't have them.
  
  If you think for an instant that this sociopath wouldn't use those weapons in the blink of an eye to obliterate, let's say, Benghazi, you clearly haven't been paying attention to his behaviour."
  
  
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  That's quite an assumption you're making. Is it really possible for you to state with such certainty that Q is not contemplating using nuclear weapons?
  
  I agree with Rumsfeld that threatening nuclear warfare has been shown to be quite deadly.