Rudy Giuliani would nuke Iran

This must be the first campaign when the leading candidate in a major party has come out both for legalized torture and for dropping the Bomb, yet isn't considered certifiably insane.

MR. BLITZER: Do you think if you were president of the United States and it came down to Iran having a nuclear bomb, which you say is unacceptable, you would authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons?

MR. GIULIANI: Part of the premise of talking to Iran has to be that they have to know very clearly that it is unacceptable to the United States that they have nuclear power. I think it could be done with conventional weapons, but you can’t rule out anything and you shouldn’t take any option off the table.

And during the debate the other night, the Democrats seemed to be back in the 1990s. They don’t seem to have gotten beyond the Cold War. Iran is a threat, a nuclear threat, not just because they can deliver a nuclear warhead with missiles. They’re a nuclear threat because they are the biggest state sponsor of terrorism and they can hand nuclear materials to terrorists. And we saw just last week in New York an attempt by Islamic terrorists to attack JFK Airport; three weeks ago, an attempt to attack Fort Dix

For the record, Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, nor missiles to carry them. They don't even have nuclear power.

And of course, the men arrested in the plots against the JFK airport and Fort Dix had no links to either al Qaeda, or Iran. And they didn't actually have any weapons with which to carry out their planned attacks, nevermind nuclear ones.