Well the government has certainly thought about it enough to generate a recent report on the threat and how to handle it.

Now if it was a report on global warming...ah, climate change, brought about by all the hot air you libs spew, you'd probably take it more seriously!!

fuman wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 4:06pm:


Fuman you have GOT to be kidding me.
MORE concerned with climate change that a rogue nation getting it's hands on a nuke??
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE.

I, too, do NOT dismiss global warming as left wing psychobabble.
However. I do know that if the WRONG people are in possession of a nuclear weapon than it ain't gonna matter how fast the glaciers melt. There won't be anything left anyway.

Time to dig out the cluepon.

LJ.

iamtakingtherestofthedayoff.

gazza,i'llcashintherestofthedayforsickleave.

god

speed

all!!!

Well North Korea already has nukes.
The only thing they need is a long-range delivery system and they are close to that as well as evidenced by last week's launch.
Although it reportedly never reached orbit, who knows whether that is true.
And even if it did not, who knows why!
What is clear is that they are still in the business of testing and now they want to start their nuke program again. 

Whether they would use them is, for me, not even a question.
Iran in particular has announced its desire to wipe Israel off the Earth and the theocracy in charge is run by a number of hard-cores that are looking to usher in the 12th Imam. 

And there is nothing stopping them from passing a nuke onto a terrorist group that Iran backs such as Hezzbolah.  How do you respond to that? 

I agree that North Korea is not likely to start something themselves.
But I have little doubt that if they could pass a nuke on to someone, they would.

And, in an age where you don't always know who your enemies are and what they really have, I would prefer to hope for the best, but certainly plan for the worst.  Most people in this country did not think a bunch of Islamic fanatics would hijack a handful of our planes and slam them into the World Trade Center on 9/10/01!!
And those that did see it coming had a pretty good tip -- the terrorists themselves had provided plans for using aircraft as weapons back when the WTC waqs first bombed by Yousef.  Pakistan, a nuclear power that has already passed nuke tech around, is on the brink of an overthrow. 

I take a nuclear threat very seriously and in my mind, those who think some of these whackos one won't do something catastrophic are borderline delusional.

" Most people in this country did not think a bunch of Islamic fanatics would hijack a handful of our planes and slam them into the World Trade Center on 9/10/01!! "


"Read any good memos today Condi?"

nankerphelge wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 5:44pm:



"passing a nuke onto a terrorist group that Iran backs such as Hezzbolah.  How do you respond to that?"

Yeah, that's a big worry, true. Or even if they just hand over fissile material. Still, I really don't think that a detonation would happen. Good thing our government doesn't rely on my opinions, huh? Hey, Obama is with you on this issue.

Thing is, we're not going to stop them with force. We would need to eliminate them entirely. I don't know what the answer is. (this is probably obvious to you)

what i find so amusing is that the righties (you know who you are) are so blind that you can't see that you're bitching about the exact thing that the lefties bitched about dubya.  it's hilarious!  the folks who continuously blame bill clinton for everthing from chicken pox to osama bin laden, now say, "isn't it terrible that the only thing obama can do is blame dubya".  classic!

rocksonrocksoff wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 6:19pm:

good stuff...

"Read any good memos today Condi?"

Good point, actually.

The fact that US Intel had some forewarning and yet the Administration failed to appreciate just how devastating an attack could be mounted by 19 people is exactly the reason why nuke terror is so frightening!

Now I understand that you'd rather poke fun at the Bush Admin, and that's fine -- but your "wit" exposes a very sad reality that some very bad things can happen despite warnings.

nankerphelge wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 8:58pm:


Yeah, The Bush Administration. Eight years of disastrous failure. Who could have seen THAT comin'?


Dick Cheney, no longer an important asshole but just an asshole, leads a coterie of GOPers to a teabagging party.

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Where was your outrage during the W years regarding such things? Oh right, it's the old double standard, eh? Why do you even waste your time with these things? You hated the man and were ready to dismiss him as a  failure before he even took office.  Yet you have some weird obsession with him and apparently with Springsteen too .

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