Hi KLP; Re: "So again, you would take your above statement, and not believe your own Government. ???? Or are you a US citizen??? Canadian???"
I'm a US citizen. As for "not believing my own Government", no at this point I don't believe them. If you think the government of the US (or any other) always tells the truth, then well, I'll just leave your admission as an indication of the value of your position.
But the fact is that there are plenty of people who are definitely American citizens that are doubting what the Bush Administration is saying.
Re: "The real problem today is that there are hundreds of these "mutually assured destruction" weapons missing from the old USSR. Wonder how many have found their way into Iraq....and then the rest...where are they?"
I cannot be certain of where those weapons are, but your question does raise some issues:
If those weapons have found their way to Iraq, as you suggest, and Iraq supports Al Qaeda, then how come Washington DC hasn't disappeared in a mushroom cloud. My theory is that the Russians lost their weapons the same way every other country on the planet loses weapons. You put them in some sort of a bunker for safe keeping, then you lose the records of which bunker you put them in. The weapons are still there, safe, but you don't know exactly where they are.
I think we can agree that Al Qaeda, if it did have nukes, would use them. Drug dealers import billions of dollars worth of drugs into this country with little effort. Al Qaeda infiltrated dozens of people into this country with few failures. So Al Qaeda shouldn't have much trouble getting the nukes into the US. We've got many thousands of miles of borders and no one watches, for instance, the little sailboats that come and go. We've got undefended, and in some places nearly unmarked borders with Mexico and Canada. Since no nukes have gone off (yet), the clear implication is that they don't have them, (yet). If they do get them, would you be willing to negotiate with them? Or would you instead suggest that we dig fallout shelters, stockpile food, and perhaps that CobaltBlue avoid spending too much time downwind from Washington DC?
I'd also like to hear your prediction on how the soccer moms will respond to having their local neighborhoods become possible targets of nuclear weapons. Do you remember Lyndon Johnson's famous Goldwater advertisement in the presidential campaign? I doubt that the American public has more of a stomach for a nuclear war in 2004 than they did in 1964. Maybe you think we're tougher now than we were then, when just the suggestion of a war was enough to precipitate a landslide against Goldwater. I'd say we're not. Unlike a lot of people I don't think we're more wimpy, I think we're essentially the same.
But do go and see if you can generate a good solid panic about those "missing" nuclear weapons. Rumors like that will pull the US out of the Middle East faster than any other political lie you or I can possibly come up with. There is no way in hell that the American public is going to willingly take a bullet for Israel. As long as it's a safe fight with just the Volunteer Army taking modest casualties the American people won't mind. When it means losing the Capitol it's a whole different ball game. That's why the Administration keeps talking up how easy Iraq will be to defeat.
-- Carl |
