In These Times

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• • 03 May 07
  • 4:01 pm

  "What if Iran or some other country processing nuclear capability should happen to be seriously considering an attack on the U.S. now or in the future and we are less than totally prepared? " does anyone actually believe that any nation state, such as Iran, would ever seriously consider attacking the United States and risk a full nuclear reprisal from the most powerful murder machine ever constructed? Highly unlikely. What is more likely is that a "stray" nuke would be detonated by "terrorist" (we need to start to use that word more objectively) inside of the US. Nuclear prolifiration makes "strays" …

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• • 04 May 07
  • 12:51 pm

  whattheheck, thanks for responding. I agree with you that only responsible parties should have access to deadly weapons. but How would one measure who is a responsible party. I think that we would both agree that you might want to consider past actions when accessing who is likely to be responsible. First the obvious: the U.S. is the only country to use nulear weapons. We attacked Hiroshima knowing full well the civilian death that would result and, after the first bomb was dropped and we knew the scale of the devastation, we dropped another of these monsters three days later. Since …

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• • 04 May 07
  • 2:57 pm

  p.s. "These religious wackos are like Kamikazes" "Religous Wackos" ??? Who is parading around the world stating they're going to rid the world of "the evil doers". Just because you wear a brooks brothers doesn't mean you're not a fundementalist. Just because you live in a big White masion doesn't mean you're not a terrorist. Osama Bin Laden would love to have Bush's body count .

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• • 07 May 07
  • 9:58 am

  whatheheck, I agree with almost everything you said :-). The only real difference I have is with your statement that "The main problem is a minority of Muslim extremists... ". While I agree that Muslim extremism is a problem and dangerous, it isn't the main problem. The problem is American influence in that part of the world. Look at our best friends in the region : Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, to name a few. What do all of these have in common? All of them are either dictatorships of one kind or another or, as in the case of …

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• • 08 May 07
  • 9:33 am

  David in CA, Thanks for the encouragement. I need all I can get. Im In the heart of the South (Atlanta, Georgia) and don't get much of it. to all, what do we do from here? do we need to impeach the President (if we want to save the little that's left of America's soul we might want to think about it. I remember when Gerald Ford died and the media went round-and-round about how he saved the country because he pardoned Nixon. How he saved the country from all the grief that would have come from putting an Ex-President on …

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