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Bush Makes Nuclear Threat |
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by Rev. T-Monk-E
Email: jmierek (nospam) msn.com (unverified!) |
11 Dec 2002
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Bush has taken his intention to pursue what the mainstream media unquestioningly refers to as "pre-emptive strikes" and upped the ante. He has now made it clear that he has no qualms about launching a nuclear attack against a "potential" enemy, beginning with Iraq, and with a future enemies list headed up by Iran (a current ally), North Korea, Syria, and Libya. According to the Independent (UK), Bush's new approach "also authorises pre-emptive strikes against countries or terrorist groups that are close to acquiring weapons of mass destruction or long-range missiles."
In other words, Bush will use weapons of mass destruction to engage in acts of naked aggression (a "pre-emptive nuclear strike" in Newspeak) against countries who may possess at some point, but who don't actually have, a fraction of the weapons of mass destruction we have no qualms about using.
That these "potential enemies" can be uncritically labelled "rogue states" by a media that simultaneously ignores the base criminality of unprovoked nuclear attack is an irony that would be bitterly funny if it were not so chillingly serious. |
See also:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=360793
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