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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (80653)	3/10/2003 12:30:57 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Thank you Jacob. Re Iraq AND North Korea...This letter to the Editor was in the liberal Seattle Times today...Actually it was their featured letter of the day. The rest on the pages were much more standard "anti-war" "anti-Bush" and the usual etc's. However, this one seemed to capture the problem face on. *************************** Countdown to war Doomsday scenario: The blackmailing of America** Editor, The Times: seattletimes.nwsource.com Just imagine what a terrorist or rogue state could do once they get their hands on a single nuclear weapon: They could smuggle it into a shipping container headed for New York city. Once there, it could detonate automatically once its GPS locator confirmed it had arrived, or it could be triggered by placing a call to a cellphone attached to the weapon. Millions of people would be killed and the world economy would crumble. Afterward, the White House might receive an anonymous blackmail message saying that the U.S. has 30 days to sink its entire navy mid-ocean, close all foreign embassies, consulates and military bases, and set fire to the White House, among other crippling and humiliating demands — or else a second weapon would destroy a second American city. The president would have no alternative other than to order the complete destruction of all questionable nuclear nations. The fact that such a doomsday scenario could be initiated using just one nuclear weapon should make it clear why President Bush is so obsessive about preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and why he is skeptical of a weapons-inspection program run by a bureaucratic international body in a nation known for its expertise in deception. Jay Wheatley, Seattle

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