[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Ralph E Douglass]

Demon Buddha wrote:
> 
> George Dixon wrote:
> >
> > T'was said...
> >
> > "Just think
> >         of it: we have a raving lunatic in the Oval Office that is actually
> >         talking of using nuclear weapons against its enemies."
> >
> > That is why they were made...
> 
>         No, they were developed not for actual use, but as a deterrent.
>         That philosophy appears to be waning in favor of one that will
>         see your children growing a couple extra heads.

Really?!!!!! So Hiroshama was just a figment? The nuk weapons were built
to be used. 
As for Bush using them I doubt it. They are still being used as a
deterent. Most folks htat are not one of the "super power countries"
beleived that the nuks were all pointed at Russia etc. Now they know
that is not the case. How many folks who live on or near the Bikini
Atoll have extra heads? Or live down wind of the desert testsites here
in the US? I admit that there are higher incedents of cancer etc. But if
you look that is also true pretty much everywhere in the US. mostly due
to plain ole chemical pollution not nuclear radiation.


> 
>         Do you have any clue as to how nasty radiation can be?  Have you
>         ever seen its effects?  I've only seen it on film and that is all
>         I would ever need to know about it.  I spent an entire semester
>         in a class with Dr. Mishio Kaku that went through the history of
>         the nuclear industry, both commercial and military.  I learned
>         things about this stuff that would scare the pants off of any
>         fool.  We saw all manner of footage, some of it once classified,
>         on accidents and the effects the materials involved have on human
>         flesh.

ave you ever seen the effects of all the chemicals that we dump all over
the place? Same story.
Yes Nuclear has issues. ANd yes it sticks around a LOT longer. But I am
not nearly as afraid of it as I am of the various and sundry chemical
and bio weapons that are out there. It is possible for life to continue
after a nuclear attack, but there are bio weapons out there that if used
will in all likelyhood truelly kill off all life.  



>         And what shall you do when the fallout circles the globe and
>         settles in the hair of your kids?  I think you will sing a very
>         different tune if, heaven forbid, that day ever comes.  It's so
>         very easy to say "kill them all" until the fruits of the killing
>         come home to roost.  Then the proverbial gnashing of teeth begins.

Already has. Are you any worse for wear? Lest see in the last 10 years
how many nuclear test blasts has China done? Or in the last couple of
years India or Pakistan (flexing thier nuclear muscles at each other) Or
How about in the '50s and '60s when the US and USSR were detonating
surface blasts left and right?

My point is that we have all been exposed to nuclear fall out. Still do
not see any two headed kids running about.

I still do not think Bush will do it. It was merely him letting the
world know that we still have weapons like this. And to let the smaller
groups and or nations who have always thought they were immune, that
they are not. as I said still a deterent, but now for the whole world
and not just one or two other potential threats.

Ralph
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