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By: Libertes & Internets

Libertes & Internets — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:52:44 +0000

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Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest May 3, 2008 — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:13:57 +0000

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By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:14:22 +0000

Secretary Weinberger stated on public TV, “The US aims to achieve a first-strike capability.” Professor J. Edward Anderson wrote a 4-page article about it in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Minuteman-3s (with MX´ warhead) and Trident-2 D5s linked to Navstar obtain a CEP of 30-40 metres. So, the missiles in Poland don´t have to be very effective to in reality being very effective as Minuteman-3s and D5s take care of almost everything, maybe everything. And with Anti-Submarine Warfare perfected, the rest is blackmail or Nuclear War. But just to be sure they want the missiles in Eastern Poland. The Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org- realized this will lead to Launch On Warning and suicide by accident and resigned.

By: loggie20

loggie20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:55:14 +0000

The first strike nuts are the progeny of Schleiffen and the von Moltke clan of the Prussian general staff, their French and Russian counter parts as well. Brtian being a maritime power was not so sanguine.

The US aspires to be Britain and France rolled into one, even though the Prussian general staff are all running profitable businesses.

First strike and related machinations are the career and job security of the general staffs.

The careers lasted until 1991 then 2001 they found Bush II and the GWOT.

Now they find a reason for a Schleiffen plan against the Taliban and related small tribe mountin guerillas.

The star wars missiles in Poland will suffer reliability and operational faults and never shoot anything in the unlikely evebnt they were cued.

Planning for maniac offenses in peace time is the grist of the war machine mills.

Wasting the opportunity and the bright minds is real and has hurt the US.

By: Alan MacDonald

Alan MacDonald — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:34:49 +0000

Margolis notes Hillary Clinton’s absurd exaggeration of the threat, but does not specifically quote her war inducing use of the term “existential threat”.

This tossing around of the claim of some “existential threat” from Iran, and now Taliban in Pakistan (getting the bomb) is absurd, and has grown from Cheney and Olmert’s initial lunacy now to Clinton and Netanyahu’s even more certifiable lunacy.

It seems like repeating the term “existential threat” often enough is being used as the same kind of propagandist pro-war baiting and scare tactic on people as numb-nuts Bush’s threatening of the US people with the totally unsubstantiated claim that Saddam had WMDs, and that the next smoking gun would be a “mushroom cloud”.

There has never been any real “existential threat” except the US and Soviet Empires entering a multi-thousand warhead thermo-nuclear war. Which, thank god, we avoided.

This talk and continually expanding use of the ‘loaded scare term’ “existential threat” is itself the only catalyst to a possible post-cold war ‘existential threat’ again arising if the US and Israel are insane enough with their conspiratorial global ‘corporate financial fascist Empire’ to set off a 21st century WWIII by intentionally promoting a false-flagged war in the Middle East oil territories of their Empire.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:03:18 +0000

“And if we had treated this more as a crime investigation … then OBL would have been hung by now.”

Quite true. The Taliban were willing to extradite him, before the invasion, but wanted the equivalent of an extradition hearing. With a bit of patience, we could have had him extradited to Pakistan, say, tried and hanged there. But it wouldn’t have looked cool on TV, it wouldn’t have pleased Bush’s vanity, etc.

Lester Ness
Kunming
China

By: paul bass

paul bass — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:27:13 +0000

America think locally act globally

By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:21:10 +0000

A friend told me, “It´s not a big problem because the Russians use American computers too.” And they never fail ?

By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:18:02 +0000

First-Strike people in the Pentagon : Learn from the Trident missile engineer Robert C. Aldridge : RESIGN !!! Former Chief of US Air Force Missile Defense Dr Bob Bowman agrees that a first-strike capability is suicidal. You don´t need a CEP of 30-40 metres to hit a city. What is the US defense against Launch On Warning ? How to respond to some accident, maybe involving several missiles ? Placing the missiles in Eastern Poland we are in deep water. I take it for granted that with Launch On Warning it´s only a question of time before some accident happens. That´s committing suicide for being brainwashed by the propaganda, for not knowing the facts about the Pentagon´s strategy for Nuclear War. As Professor J. Edward Anderson stated, “Nuclear War Means First Strike”. The new missile SS-24 won´t change that according to Bob Aldridge. We could have grown some 4 billion years more but with First-Strike Capability and Launch On Warning we are doomed.

By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:55:13 +0000

Brigadier Harbottle said when referring to the people in the Pentagon striving to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability, “Bloody fools in the Pentagon, bloody fools.” Brigadier Harbottle was also referring to the fact that some of these First Strike NUTS in the Pentagon didn´t believe in the Nuclear Winter Report either. Indeed, Bloody Fools In The Pentagon, as the Brigadier stated because a First-Strike Capability inevitably leads to Launch On Warning and suicide by accident.