Bush: WMD greatest threat to humanity

[ramapo]

From CNN...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/bush.wmd/index.html

".. the president said that the September 11 attacks showed that the United States must prepare to fight terrorists who are willing to use chemical, biological or nuclear weapons as a first resort."

"We saw the great harm that a stateless network could inflict upon our country. Killers armed with boxcutters, mace and 19 airline tickets," Bush said.

"Those attacks also raised the prospect of even worse dangers, of other weapons in the hand of other men. The greatest threat before humanity today is the possibility of secret and sudden attack with chemical, or biological or radiological or nuclear weapons."

I'm so tired of this. What about the threat of hunger and preventable disease to humanity. How many people have died this week from these two causes?

[Jazzgirl]

1. If *shrub looked in the mirror he'd see the greatest threat to humanity.

n/t

[RT Atlanta]

2. you go!

JG - you beat me to it!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. OK, agreed, but what about...

The greatest threat to the greatest threat?

[K8-EEE]

LOL! Even Atkins Fans Gotta Love PRETZELS...

They're powerful good...

[number6]

37. I agree

;)

[trotsky]

3. Wha? I thought gay marriage was...

:shrug:

[curlyred]

4. We were attacked by terrorists who used none of those

what a moron.

If he were truly serious about securing the "homeland" he'd do something about our ports and borders.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Only one country has ever used nukes. The real WMD's n/t

[Alopenia]

11. Odd that Truman has never taken a pounding for this

Thousands of women and children murdered by the A-bomb. I wonder if our outrage should have been more compared to what is happening now.

[Snow]

21. Well he did, in the late 40's early 50's, even into the early 60's

I recall hearing criticism based on his having dropped the bomb. There is some evidence out there, however, that he was forced to it - ie, it would've happened with or without his approval. The man was very much an outsider who stepped into a structure filled with power insiders, and they really resented him. "Accidental president", and all that.

[AZCat]

27. The Truman Prez Library has some good stuff...

It is in Independence, Mo.
It has an exhibit on the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings- lots of examples of different criticism/support of his actions. Truman himself was a prolific writer, but didn't write much about this particular issue. He seemed pretty settled on his decision, as hard as it may have been.

[Alopenia]

32. Sounds extremely familiar, doesn't it?

[nostamj]

6. utter, absolute BS

".. the president said that the September 11 attacks showed that the United States must prepare to fight terrorists who are willing to use chemical, biological or nuclear weapons as a first resort."


the September 11 attacks showed that terrorists did not need chemical, biological or nuclear weapons as a first resort. they hijacked airplanes and flew them into buildings.

cretin!

[qanda]

7. No, Mr. Bush...

YOU are the greatest threat to humanity!

[The Stranger]

8. Truly bizarre. He sounds like the Iraqi spokesperson saying Iraq was

victorious during the invasion and rout of their troops. Same sort of sense from it as well. Do they not see it coming down all around them? Or, worse, are they planning on somehow bringing about these attacks that they keep talking on and on about?

[asjr]

16. Yes,

I think they see the end in sight. That is why Shrub is giving so much face time to the public. I didn't watch the speech about WMD because I have heard it before. Why his fan club doesn't see that he is strictly a cardboard figure is beyond me. The WH is either scared or are really planning something we will have no control over. That is frightening. I hope his utterance about not losing the presidency was just bluster and does not foretell BBV.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Bush told investigators to back off Saudi Arabia

You may never heard of Khan Laboratories, but if the planet blows to pieces this year, it will be thanks to Khan Labs' creating nuclear warheads for Pakistan's military. Because investigators had been tracking the funding for this so-called "Islamic Bomb" back to Saudi Arabia, under Bush security restrictions, the inquiry was stymied. (The restrictions were lifted, the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)

..A top-level CIA operative who spoke with us on condition of strictest anonymity said that, after Bush took office, "There was a major shift" at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to "back off" from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the Bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off limits for investigation.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

[ramapo]

24. And John O'Neill Quite the FBI in disgust for the WTC

Only to be buried in the rubble on his second day on the job.

[enough]

26. Thanks for posting this.

We need to keep this story out there. Sooner or later the media have to pick up on it.

[belle]

10. Gosh, that record's sounding scratchy.

And er, yeah, WMD's in the hands of terrorists *is* a bad idea. Maybe you should've thought of that BEFORE you cancelled Clinton's policy of buying up the former Soviet Union's poorly-guarded nuclear supply, eh?

[JPace]

13. AWOL has made us hated by the world.....

it used to be that a small part of the world did
not like us. Under AWOL's pResidency we have
become hated by most of the world.

The sooner AWOL is out of the wh the sooner we
can become safer.

[ixion]

14. indeed... and who has more WMD than anyone? who thinks bunker busters

are cool? Why the chicken hawks and the US GOP, of course!

Reptillian, closed-minded, arrogant GOP'ers are the greatest threat to humanity, bar none.

[louis-t]

33. Reptillian + Republican=

Reptillican!

[Just Me]

35. Exactly my response,...that would make US the biggest threat.

Carl must be starting to slip on those slippery speeches.

[jpak]

15. Then how 'bout signing the Comprehensive Test Band Treaty

you f**cking hypocrite

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Actually, I think W takes the #1 spot for biggest threat

to humanity, followed by #2 - Climate change and Peak Oil.

The real likelihood of being killed in a terrorist attack is still probably a lot lower than getting killed in a car accident or dying from cancer but if W has his way, we will have another MIHOP pretty soon.

[BlueEyedSon]

18. Yes, namely the ENORMOUS nuclear arsenals of the US and Russia.

Just attended a great lecture by Daniel Ellsworth about the threat of the stockpiles of H-bombs of the MAJOR POWERS.

[BlueEyedSon]

19. Never mind, I agree with DoYouEverWonder, and I would add "population."

[kodi]

20. yet he attempted to defund nunn/lugar?

what a lying ass.

[arcane1]

22. meanwhile, he wants to develop new, smaller, portable..

tactical field nukes, 10000 times easier to steal than the standard ICBM

clean up your own house first, George. With you in power, I cannot fault ANY country for wanting a 'deterrant'

[UpInArms]

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[lebkuchen]

25. For the Rush crowd, its barbituates and Big Macs

cultural relativity!

[Zero Gravitas]

28. Wolf! Wolf!

We won't be fooled again.

[llmart]

29. Who listens

to this lying sack of shit any more? Oh, wait, maybe I should "duck and cover" like we did in grade school. Fear, fear, fear; be afraid; be afraid, be afraid. Blah, blah, blah..... Shut up already! No one but your rightwing neocons cares what you have to say any more.

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[Malva Zebrina]

31. I am fed up with the evil presidunce continually obsessing on war

and terror and all things bloody and brutal.

He is a warmongering shit who loves death and dying, especially when he perceives that he is in charge of it.

Let us please, get him out of our house soon.

[spanone]

34. Total Campaign speech. Bu$h* does war best.

[Malva Zebrina]

36. I cannot wait to celbrate the day when this evil man finally goes down

Each time I see him descending from AF1, down those steps, I wonder if he would fall and break his neck.


He was not elected , He forced himnself upon us. He is a liar over and over and over. He does not know the meaning of the word "truth" and further does not care. "truth" is for the little guy--you know, that little guy who signed up to the military for a few extra bucks and for possibly a way to pay for a college education that they would not, in a million years be able to pay for, were it not for the
military paying for it.

Only thing is that 530 of them will not be going to college because they are dead. They are dead beccause an insane man, whose own record of service is extremely doubtful, saw fit to "order" them to their deaths in order that he may avenge his daddy and secure the assets of the country he invaded for his rich buddies.

They are ruling the lower classes. They are balling us up while they are making billions of dollars and while they are billing us taxpayers to do so. This is outrageous. This is inacceptable to any human being with any sense of his own being.

[hippiechick]

38. Dose that mean the UN has to sanction the US now ?

Since the US's Military Industrial complex happens to be the world's biggest proliferator, bankroller, maker and seller of those goll darn WMD's ....



:shrug:



:hippie: