As pointed out in an eerie article from LewRockwell.com, nuking Iran would be a great idea:

The reason the catastrophe will be so immense is because our nuclear missiles will be vaporizing nuclear sites. When these sites are vaporized, all the enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiled there will be shot into the atmosphere as “weaponized” particles, along with the radioactive particles from the warheads themselves.

These radioactive particles will then be carried eastward by the jet stream and the trade winds across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the other “stans,” to India, China, and Japan – producing what Truman long ago described as “a rain of ruin from the air” the like of which the world has never seen.

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Sounds like a great idea, huh?

But - wait - who would do such a thing? Sure, Bush is a bit of a loose cannon, but he’ll be gone in eighteen months (or, at least, nobody expected him to be able to cause another major fuckup, but that was yesterday and before Gaza went straight to hell).

Oh, wait. All of the Republican Presidential candidates with the exception of Ron Paul have refused to take the nuclear ‘option’ off the table. Haha, well, gee…