President Bush said a possible nuclear attack on Israel is part of the “immeasurable costs” that he must weigh when deciding whether to go to war against Iraq. “How do you measure the consequence of taking a dictator out of power who has tried to invade Kuwait? Or somebody who may some day decide to lob a weapon of mass destruction on Israel?” Bush said in a nationally televised news conference on March 6.
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