Here's a word on the matter from someone close to the top (rather than bring up one of the three long threads on this from almost a year ago...anyone who wants to peruse those for context can just put "nuke 'em" in the search on Misc.)

>Ari Fleischer Never Dared Tell Bush This

When just-retired White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was a guest on David Letterman's "The Late Show" on Thursday night he revealed the one thing he never had the nerve to tell President George W. Bush, reports The Associated Press. Although many people encouraged him to do so, Fleischer could never bring himself to tell the boss that he consistently mangled the pronunciation of the word "nuclear." Bush says "NU-cu-lar" instead of the correct "NU-cle-ar" when he talks about weapons of mass destruction. "That might be why we haven't found them yet," Fleischer joked to Letterman. <