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Oldsmobile writes "On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The vast secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing, remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions continue undisrupted in an emergency."
its benn said that this is not an excercise, that its a cover for a goverment take over concisting of....... ..............THIS POSTING DELETED BE YOUR FREINDLY NSA OVERSEER
the Bush administration is preparing another 9/11 "Perl Harbor"?
Think of it from Russian and Chinese leaders point of view.
I think that YOU need to think of it from their point of view. A nuclear always ends in both a national and personal loss. It is a national loss in that your civilization will be destroyed. Forget rebuilding, if the US drops even a tenth of the nukes they have on you, that is more then enough to drop a nuke on every single population center and still have a few left over to spare. If the US launches its entire arsenal, that is enough to blanket your nation in nukes. The places that are not destroyed will be left radioactive. Your civilization is done. Further, YOU are done. Even if you manage to secure a position in a nice cozy government bunker, you are now damned to live in a wasted and blasted nation. Your central government will be destroyed, and so even if you do emerge unscathed, you certainly will not be a ruler.
Further, you don't even need to consider the Chinese or Russia perspective because just examining the US perspective is more then enough to see that the idea of a preemptive nuclear strike against a nation you are at peace with is utterly stupid. What in the hell would the US gain from striking at China or Russia at any point in the future, even if they could not respond? We might plant bombs in the US and blow them up, as if you bomb China you are essentially bombing your own factories. China and Russia are tied into the global economy to such an extent that cutting them off is like cutting of a limb. Even if the US felt like suffering through the economic loss of China and Russia (which it isn't), the retaliation that all other nations would inflict on the US in terms of economic sanctions would ruin whatever little economy remains. The US is NOT self sufficient and almost certainly would be destroyed if such a thing were to happen.
Look, your entire argument in inane. If you truly believe that the leaders of Russia and China would forfeit their lives and the lives of all of their country men in a pissing contest, you need to go back and rethink your understanding of the world.
Would China and Russia be pissed if the US developed an anti-ballistic missile system? Absolutely. We would almost certainly have to pay a steep political price and certainly would pay a steep economic price. Would they throw in the towel and invite 10,000 American nuclear weapons to their backyard despite the fact that both nations have relatively good relations with the US? Hell no.
There are plenty of good reasons to be good against an anti-ballistic missile system that you don't need to make reasons up.
9/11 (while being pretty symbolic) was not an attack on America
Right! They like America, and didn't want anyone to draw any conclusions about their feelings for the country as a whole. No. They just hated the people on the planes, in the World Trade Center, and in the Pentagon. The rhetoric from the people who planned the attack, describing it specifically as a blow against the country and against the west in general, was obviously just confused. They should really check with you before they talk again, just in case they once again inadvertantly let slip another "death to America," since they obviously don't mean that.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
.. an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The attack on the World Trading Centre was bad, no doubt, but 'catastrophic'? Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe, the tsunami was one, global warming is becoming one, and the Bush administration is worse than one; I wouldn't, however, call the terror attacks a 'catastrophe'. I thought the Americans were supposed to be 'thick skinned' and 'resilient', but since those attacks you have panicked and run around like decapitated chickens, allowing a moron like Bush and his fascist cronies to run wild over you.
I think you guys should get rid of them - people like Bush, Ashcroft, Chenie and Rice are the main reason why America has problems in the world.