US "Envisions" Using "Nuculer" weapons

[true_notes]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050911/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_doctrine

Hmph, seems like the evil viral scum in dc have something up their sleeves.

[complain jane]

1. Oh, Jesus.

Tell me that twisted bastard's going to unleash a nuke to bury the Katrinagate story.

Karl Rove? He's like Doctor Evil now.

[Carolab]

2. The logic is amazing.

One scenario for a possible nuclear pre-emptive strike in the draft would be in the case of an "imminent attack from adversary biological weapons that only effects from nuclear weapons can safely destroy."

The Bush administration is continuing to push for development of an earth-penetrating nuclear warhead, but has yet to obtain congressional approval.

However, the Senate voted in July to revive the "bunker-buster" program that Congress last year decided to kill.

Administration officials have maintained that the U.S. needs to try to develop a nuclear warhead that would be capable of destroying deeply buried targets including bunkers tunneled into solid rock.

But opponents said that its benefits are questionable and that such a warhead would cause extensive radiation fallout above ground killing thousands of people. And they say it may make it easier for a future president to decide to use the nuclear option instead of a conventional weapon.

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Translation: Let's stop a biological attack by launching an (even more deadly) nuclear one.

[spacelady]

3. Look out you evil looting raping Gulf States that have made

Commander Cuckoobananas look foolish!

[Fovea]

4. This is the worst idea in the long sad history of bad ideas

Remember 'known stockpiles' of wmd would include Colon Bowel's portable bioweapons labs (aka hydrogen generators for weather and barrage balloons) pre invasion.

This puts us firmly in a new catagory "Rogue Superpower."

Remember, you heard it here first.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Worst president ever.

War criminal.

If Curveball says there are wmd some place, that doesn't make it true.

[RallyInDC]

6. totally insane....all of them

Throw rove in and lock away the key, end this crap once and for all. these bastards want to blow themselves up!!

[Carolab]

7. No, they have vast underground bunkers.

That ensure "continuity of government".

This is otherwise known as "Octopus" or the "Shadow Government".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/092291589X/104-1707464-9506317?v=glance

From Publishers Weekly
What if, on September 11, 2001, United flight 93 had crashed into the Capitol, as some believe the terrorists had planned? Helms, an expert on clandestine and pirate radio, offers a nightmare scenario for what might have followed: the president could have declared a state of emergency and an unelected "shadow government," housed in hidden bunkers, would have gone into operation; civil liberties would have been suspended; civilian authorities in various cities would yield to military Special Forces. Is all this legal? Yes, according to Helms-a series of laws passed during WWII and after have concentrated much power in the president and created a Continuity of Government program in the event of a national emergency. Helms describes at length the past uses of executive orders to subvert civil liberties, such as FDR's order 9066, which led to the detention of Japanese-Americans, looks at the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("the scariest agency in the entire government"), and sweeping security steps that have been contemplated in the wake of September 11. Readers concerned with the possible loss of civil liberties will find their worst fears confirmed here.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

[Mr Rabble]

8. This is Chaney's task force.

In the event of another attack by "terrorists" we nuke Iran.

Thats right, Iran.

Whether they did it or not.

Read the document on the pentagon website. It was discussed on DU almost a month ago.

[nashville_brook]

9. of course they are!

wake up ya'll.