Re: Our Nuclear Talk Gravely Imperils Us Notion of aFirst- Strike

Hi lee,

Yes, with the UN getting worried due to public pressure now - America is
going to get loads of invented scares and all sorts of nonsense. If the war
does not happen, Blair & Bush will be got rid of by its own people
(hopefully), this will worry our suppozed democratic (laughable). The radio
on the world service is broadcasting a much less propaganda=style platform
but no=one will hear any of it. They will get the sensationalist press
screaming for war…

marc




> I must say this is one of the first things that has really made me worry
> since the propeganda they forced on us in school in the 80's.
> I guess we should all get our shit together on this issue.
>
> This issue is sure to turn a large % of the american population against
the
> current government.
>
> Lee
>
>
> on 2/8/03 8:53 PM, marc.garrett at [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Our Nuclear Talk Gravely Imperils Us Notion of a First- Strike
> > Use in Iraq Carries The Seed of World Disaster
> > By Edward M. Kennedy
> > Los Angeles Times | Commentary
> >
> > Wednesday 29 January 2003
> >
> > A dangerous world just grew more dangerous. Reports that the
administration
> > is contemplating the preemptive use of nuclear weapons in Iraq should
set
> > off alarm bells that this could not only be the wrong war at the wrong
time,
> > but it could quickly spin out of control.
> >
> > Initiating the use of nuclear weapons would make a conflict with Iraq
> > potentially catastrophic.
> >
> > President Bush had an opportunity Tuesday night to explain why he
believes
> > such a radical departure from long-standing policy is justified or
> > necessary. At the very minimum, a change of this magnitude should be
brought
> > to Congress for debate before the U.S. goes to war with Iraq.
> >
> > The reports of a preemptive nuclear strike are consistent with the
extreme
> > views outlined a year ago in President Bush's Nuclear Posture Review and
> > with the administration's disdain for long-standing norms of
international
> > behavior.
> >
> > According to these reports, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has
> > directed the U.S. Strategic Command to develop plans for employing
nuclear
> > weapons in a wide range of new missions, including possible use in Iraq
to
> > destroy underground bunkers.
> >
> > Using the nation's nuclear arsenal in this unprecedented way would be
the
> > most fateful decision since the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Even
> > contemplating the first-strike use of nuclear weapons under current
> > circumstances and against a nonnuclear nation dangerously blurs the
crucial
> > and historical distinction between conventional and nuclear arms. In the
> > case of Iraq, it is preposterous.
> >
> > http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/020103A.kendy.seed.htm
> >
> >
>
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