In his speech at Cincinnati on October 7, President George W. Bush, seeking to rally support for his authorization to launch a military invasion of Iraq, portrayed the threat posed by the Iraqi regime in lurid terms. The Iraqis, he asserted, possess dreaded chemical and biological “weapons of mass destruction,” and they seek to develop a nuclear weapon. “If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball,” the president warned, “it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.” And then? “Saddam Hussein … Continue reading Saddam’s Softball