Reality's funnier every time.Obama wants to pursue Bush's idea to use conventional warheads on ICBM's. Seems like a nice idea, right? Goes with his whole Nuke-Free vision of the future.Problem is, when that ICBM is in flight, Russia or China could quite reasonably assume it's under nuclear attack and retaliate. Donald Rumsfeld, clear thinker that he was, tried to brush away the issue at a press conference four years ago. His reasoning is exquisite nonsense:Now mind you, against them -- on the basis that an ICBM in flight -- some countries might not know whether it was a conventional weapon or a nuclear weapon. It seems to me that that's not a very powerful argument, because there are only a few countries that would have the ability to do anything about it, were -- regardless of which type of weapon it was. And those countries are the countries that would have the ability to know when it was launched and what the azimuth and direction of it was. And everyone in the world would know that
