🚀 go-pugleaf

How naive...are you so ill educated that you don't know that every
administration, of every nuclear power, runs 'contingency' planning as
described in your reports? My, how extremist you appear...

John wrote:
> 
> The Nuclear Option in Iraq
> The U.S. has lowered the bar for using the ultimate weapon
> By William M. Arkin
> 
> WASHINGTON -- One year after President Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and
> North Korea the "axis of evil," the United States is thinking about
> the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear
> weapons against Iraq.
> 
> At the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha and inside planning
> cells of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, target lists are being
> scrutinized, options are being pondered and procedures are being
> tested to give nuclear armaments a role in the new U.S. doctrine of
> "preemption."
> ----------
> Those are the first two paragraphs- the whole article is at:
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0126-01.htm
> =========
> 
> Another article on the same topic:
> 
> Published on Saturday, January 25, 2003
> by the Los Angeles Times
> 
> U.S. Weighs Tactical Nuclear Strike on Iraq
> by Paul Richter
> 
> is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0125-01.htm
> 
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> 
>  Many Americans - including me, consider Bush to be an  illegitimate
> president.  In any event, he does not represent the American people -
> just a few  heartless,  lost souls who value money and power more than
> they value human lives. Evidently, they don't know better.    The
> polls  (which are controlled by heartless corporations who'll do
> nearly anything of course, for more  money and power) say that his
> approval ratings have been very high since 9-11, but many people
> think that the polls are manufactured for and by those in power and
> don't believe them.   About 60% of the people who I've spoken with
> about politics since Bush has been in power - have told me that they
> can't stand to see his face or hear his voice - and if he comes on the
> radio or  tv -  they immediately switch to something else because they
> are very, very  repulsed by him and so am I.  I  wish him well, but
> I'm afraid that the poor man is hopeless for now.   Hopefully,  Bush
> and his warmonger, money loving, heartless friends will fall, very
> soon! When that happens, peace loving people all over the  world will
> breath a great sigh of relief.
> 
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