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I didn't catch this when she said it yesterday -- and apparently you didn't either -- but in yesterday's questioning of the 6th District candidates on the issue of a military response to
Iraq's
Iran's developing nuclear weapons, it appears Sen. Michele Bachmann extended the response possibility to include the U.S. using nuclear weapons against Iran.
"We certainly don't want to move toward a nuclear response anytime soon or without an abundance of caution."
"We can't remove any option off the table and we should not remove the nuclear response."
She advocated, of course, plenty of caution and the use diplomacy here, but this is the first time I've heard a politician suggest the U.S. might actually use a nuclear weapon in its military response.
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