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How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?
Loconut1389 writes "According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has a revised doctrine to be signed in the next few weeks would give the president the authority for a preemptive nuclear strike. I would hope that this is a move designed to say we mean business and then never use it, but the means is there for mutual assured destruction."
Every day it seems, we read about more and more people dying, more and more terrorists murdering innocent people, and we let them get away with it. Here in the US, we have been attacked so many times, and so many times, this sleeping giant has not been awakened. We are a country that talks a lot of talk, but has yet to truly back up our talk with any walk...
It is great if the President has this kind of control, yet what good is having all this horsepower and ability, if we leave this country in park??? What good is all these nuclear devices that are scattered across the globe, sitting there rusting away, collecting dust, circuits decaying, plutonium decaying and losing potency???
This country is needing to stand up for itself once and for all, and stop letting the other nations of this world bully us. We are the MOST POWERFUL country on the planet, with the largest and most powerful armed forces. We have the MOST ability to knock this Earth into pieces, yet we use NONE of this power...
If America is going to be worth anything, we need to STAND UP and take charge for once. We need to let these oil kings know that we are sick of paying such high oil prices, while they sit back and rake in TRILLIONS each year, and let them know that those days are over now... We need to fight back when we are attacked by a terrorist group, dealing such horrific attacks as a countermeasure, that no terrorist group will EVER consider attacking America again.
In the movie Swordfish, John Travolta was the leader of a group who was in charge of protecting the US. He said that whenever a terrorist group attacked our soil, they would retaliate ten-fold. His whole purpose of everything was to fight the fight that the government has chosen to sit back and watch, yet not participate in at all.
Here in the USA, we need to take charge, and show these other countries that we mean BUSINESS. We need to stop being little cowards, and step up to the plate, and take CHARGE of this...
I've posted an informal poll on my website, http://www.entertainmentwatch.com/
Feel free to stop by and cast your vote, on how you think we should handle this in the future. Feel free to reply to this posting, with additional poll choices, and I'll gladly add them. Lets see what we all think should be done, to stop this from happening anymore, and show this world we mean BUSINESS.
As far as I am concerned, America has laid dormant way too long, taking too many punches, and is on the mat. We need to get a second wind, and come back for a knockout...
Christine
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I see this as a means to use a MAD type scenario on those crazy bastards in the middle east. All we would have to do is suspect them of WMD's and then level the place with a nuke. If there were WMD's they would be blasted away. If there weren't any, who would know??? :D No if only we had leaders with the balls to turn the middle east into a glass factory.
I killed 3 men and 2 cats to get this sig?
...someone told Dubya about the big red button?
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
With Iraq as a glass parking lot, who could prove Bush wrong? With this law passing, it looks like GWB is learning from his mistakes, and Iran and North Korea have much to fear.
It would be an improvement over the current situation, at any rate.
I'll ignore the rest of your deluded gibbering (boy, it's a karma bonfire today!) and focus on this:
That a nation which prides itself in being a beacon of freedom would be torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib and running a gulag in Cuba.
No-one was tortured at Abu Ghraib - not while it was under American control. Hundreds were tortured to death there under Saddam's regime. The worst that happened after he was removed was some naughty pictures.
As for the "gulag" in Cuba: Millions of people, millions, were worked to death, or starved, or froze, in the real gulags in Russia. The Gulag administration was the single largest employer in Europe.
Do you know how many prisoners have died at Guantanamo Bay?
I'll tell you.
None.
The US prides itself on being a beacon of freedom because it bloody well IS.
North Korea has no intention of attacking the US even if they could. Bush wants to nuke north korea just in case the republicans are down in the polls. 9/11 was the best thing to ever happen to Bush and he knows it. He is the war president, without a war he is just an incompetent, incoherent, religous fundamentalist fool.
evil is as evil does
Hopefully it won't result in the immediate retaliatory destruction of the USA by the nations of the world whom this attack will anger.
Actually, you can almost guarantee that that will happen. A US that lobs nukes with no provocation, and at the whim of insane leadership cannot be tolerated.
Besides, the other guys have more nukes.
And don't forget to wait a few years and nuke the cities that will then fill up with evil men who irrationally hate the USA for killing their wives, sons, daughters, parents and housepets!
Seriously, now - cynically using 9/11 for political gain... Iraq... Bleeding the army dry... Fucking the economy... New Orleans... Now seriously trying to restart the world-wide nuclear standoff for the sake of a bit of cock-waving.
Just what does Bush actually have to do before you Americans fucking get rid of him for being an incompetent criminal madman? Inadvertantly show his nipple during the superbowl? Say "shit" in front of a small child?
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
Its ok, I'm pretty sure the Bush Junior will 'pre-empt' us and will nuke everyone at the same time to stop retaliation.
Then, finally you will be safe!
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I agree with you, (and I am Mexican so my country may be affected by the nukes). You should fucking nuke the ass of USA (not all America is that bad okey ;-).
Not to kill them all, not to kill their people or whatever, just to turn down its self-inflated ego. For some time they have been proclaimed the "most powerful country in the world" and they are using that to create an empire of tyrany over the world, not only in the politic side, but also on the economic side (USA enterprises and chains like walmart or even MS).
It is time to fuck them so much that they again remember that the world do not belong to them and that they better live in peace with the world than to go and get their asses in whichever place they want.
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I hope Iran, North Korea (DPRK) and every other country who views the USA as an enemy is trembling in their boots, crapping their pants, and responding frantically to this threat. I hope so, because those nukes are aimed right at their little heads. And frankly, I hope we use them sooner rather than later. I don't like going to sleep at night wondering if Kim Jong Il is going to press the button and nuke my family. I would much rather have Tony Blair or some other democratically elected, accountable leader at that button.
On the other hand, I hope those countries who engage in free trade with the US, have no reason to feel threatened by the US because they operate above the table with us, and who have a history of supporting the US's actions against bastards like Saddam Hussein and Hitler and Hirohito feel no threat at all. That is, unless they are also dealing with DPRK and Iran and are finding themselves increasingly opposed to mankind's last great hope--the USA.
There was a line drawn in the sand, and it is still there. You are either going to help us eliminate all terrorist threats, or you are going to find yourself on the receiving end of our wrath. It's all up to you.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
We would nuke Mecca.
The terrorists don't get it. Every time they shout "Allahu Akbar!" as they saw off a head, they are reinforcing what Europeans have known since the Middle Ages. Islam is not about peace, it is about enforcing tyrnnay by the sword.
If Muslims find the idea of Mecca turning to irradiated glass repulsive, it's high time they stood up to their imams and shouted, "ENOUGH! We will not be hijacked by sick people like you!"
Christianity went through this process and today, Christianity is very, very different from what it was in the Spanish Inquisition. Now Christianity is the religion of democracy and peace.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
"Let's all just try to get along, okay? "
Okay, you try to get along with me. That means you have to pay me $50 every month for the rest of your life or I come into your home and shoot you dead.
Oh, you don't like that? Well, why don't you just try to get along? Why do we have to fight all the time?
Your hippy ideas are nice but they need a touch more reality. Of course everyone wants to get along, but under whose terms? The question is and always will be under who do we submit ourselves?
Answer that and you'll quickly become a neo-conservative.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
"All preemptive strikes are preventive, but not all preventive strikes are "
Blah blah blah blah....What a crock.
This pontification is meaningless in the face of the facts. Theres a dangerous person there. What do you do? Preventive, preventative those are just words that small minded people use to make their point. Damn those revisionists and their altered history. Damn them to hell!
I am so tired of all you people and your rose tinted world. This action was necessary!
You can mince words and try to massage this point until it looks like a fuzzy bunny rabbit but you know, yes you KNOW, in youir hear of hearts that that ugly, green freak was gonna blow him away any second. Han was totally justified and you and those who think just like you had to go and ruin it...RUINED I SAY! RUINED!
Han shot first....Bitches!
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