Richardson: 'Nuclear 9-11' Is Possible

[Herman Munster]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O5AHH00&show_article=1

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said the United States needs to do more to prevent a "nuclear 9-11," a threat that he argues has been neglected because the Bush administration has been consumed with Iraq.
The New Mexico governor said the United States must lead an effort to secure nuclear materials in Russia and dangerous areas of the world so they can't get into terrorists' hands. "If al-Qaida obtained nuclear weapons, they would not hesitate to use them with the same ruthlessness that allowed them to fly airplanes filled with people into buildings," he said in a speech to the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

"It took a Manhattan project to create the bomb," Richardson said. "We need a new Manhattan project to stop the bomb—a comprehensive program to secure all nuclear weapons and all weapons-usable material, worldwide."

Asked why he doesn't support a nuclear-free world like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other Cold War leaders have promoted, Richardson replied, "I'm a pragmatist."

[PDJane]

1. Pragmatic, hell..........

The Bush bunch don't want to secure nuclear materials, they don't want to stop using them, and they aren't willing to talk.

This bunch see it as their privilege to own the world, and atomic weapons will help keep the population in check, y'know?

[Tom Joad]

2. I do think it is quit possible, and the likely user would be the US military in a terror attack

against another people. After all, the US has done it before...

[BushOut06]

3. Exactly - the US is actually more likely to be the one using nukes

Haven't they been telling us that "low-yield" nukes are the only way to take out those Iranian nuclear facilities?

[Colobo]

4. I like Richardson's position

Pragmatism is necessary in such a dangerous world.