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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (18372)	3/10/2003 12:10:14 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 25898

Liberal Seattle Times FEATURED this on the editorial page --A letter to the Editor. (Of course, all the rest of them were much more typical of what we see in Seattle, Wonder how many of the Left have actually thought about this aspect for more than a millisecond. *********************************>>>>>>> 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