Originally posted by Hershey Chocolate Lover
We have nuclear weapons, why didn't we use them in Iraq!
You'd best be trollin'.
Nuclear weapons destroy entire cities, and leave victims to slowly die of radiation sickness. Using them is a terrible idea in any war, but especially stupid in a counter-insurgency, where the enemy is largely encamped in cities, but the government is on our side. Basically, you're asking why we didn't murder hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to kill a few terrorists. Nuking, say, Baghdad would be a far worse atrocity than 9/11.
Oh yeah, and it would be absolutely guaranteed to piss off half the muslim world, and vastly increase the number of people who want us dead.