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Hypocritical U.S. Nuke Plan Advances

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Posted on Oct 20, 2006
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At the same time America is lecturing N. Korea and Iran about abandoning their nuclear weapons programs, the U.S. is pressing ahead with plans to build a new stockpile of 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons.


Washington Post:

The United States took another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century, announcing the start of a multiyear process to repair and replace facilities where they would be developed and assembled and where older warheads could be more rapidly dismantled.

Thomas P. D’Agostino, head of defense programs for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), told reporters that the “Complex 2030” program would repair or replace “inefficient, old and expensive [to maintain]” facilities at eight sites, including some buildings going back to the 1940s Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bombs. He said the sites—primarily in California, New Mexico, Texas and Tennessee—“are not sustainable for the long term.”

Yesterday’s announcement comes as the Bush administration is pressing its allies to take harsh steps to halt nuclear weapons programs in both North Korea and Iran that it says are violations of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That same treaty calls for the United States and other members of the nuclear club to eliminate their own stockpiles, but it gives no deadline by which that should take place.

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By John Welbrigt, October 22, 2006 at 7:29 pm #
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Bush is a figurehead, not a leader…Never was a leader, never will be…Born on 3rd base, and is convinced he hit the triple…

He is incapable of changing course or admitting his mistakes…and that is why we are in such huge trouble around the world with very few “friends” who will support us or come to our rescue as things worsen around us.  The age of humility is upon us all…

JW

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By David, October 22, 2006 at 3:01 pm #
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I think both sides need to take a more removed look at this.  We aren’t talking about adding to the stockpile, we’re talking about replacing old weapons with new ones.  The whole idea behind Complex 2030 is to have fewer warheads which are more effective and more deployable.  I’m not fond of the idea of nuclear weapons, but I recognize a need for them for deterrence.  I’d just as soon have a program that will cut costs in the long run while keeping the military-industrial sector appeased in the short run.  At least this policy won’t get anyone killed.

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By lugh lampfhota, October 21, 2006 at 11:39 pm #
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Whether you little suburban Marxists know it or like it, there are ruthless men out there who would like nothing better than killing every single one of you. Oh, and by the way, they are not Americans. They are Mohammeds and Kims and Vasilys and Hugos. And unlike you, they are deadly serious about getting what they want. Kinda like the gangbagas in the ghetto that you Birkensock socialists so idolize and want to “give stuff to”. They would shoot you tween the eyes to get your cellphone. So unless you really want to die soon, we better just keep those nukes for a while longer.

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By Zachary, October 21, 2006 at 9:01 pm #
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You guys are right, we should destroy all of our weapons right now, so our new “friends” can come destroy us. GOOD THINKING! Is it ANY wonder you whack jobs are losing your hold on Washington and reality?

Since you all seem to be under the misguided sense that NOTHING happened on this planet before Bush WON (yes, I said WON…more votes = victory) the election in 2000 it appears that the World Trade Center was not bombed in 1993, the USS Cole was not attacked in OCTOBER of 2000, just to name 2(two) of the numerous attacks made against this country PRIOR to Bush winning (yes, see above) the election in 2000.

I guess, then, what you’re trying to tell the rest of us, that don’t listen to Air America and buy all the crap it USED to spew, is that Bin Laden KNEW Bush was going to win (yes, aww hell you know it’s true) the 2000 election and hated HIM so much he declared war on the United States and started attacking us 7-8 years before he even ran?

Please, whack jobs, get a clue!

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By jeff, October 21, 2006 at 7:52 pm #
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what a topic.thats what we need ,more communists with nukes.we better manufacture a lot more. the strong will survive.its a shame anyone has to have nukes,but until man can live peacefully with man it will never end. i will end on this.  read the bible no one uses them until the end times any how, so dont worry.

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By lifewriter, October 20, 2006 at 9:30 pm #
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“This is where we are. “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind,” and the best way to start is to put an end to war in Vietnam, because if it continues, we will inevitably come to the point of confronting China which could lead the whole world to nuclear annihilation.

It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. And the alternative to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution

I personally feel that it was King’s sentiments on nuclear disarmament that pushed the CIA to assassinate him.  All of the other nuisances concerning civil rights, black equality, as imperative as these items were, did not stand to halt the military industrial complex.  The man had the momentum of the nation on his side, he’d bridged and united people like no other leader in American history, and his talk of disbanding nuclear weapons must have really frightened the major players in the weapons game, as they saw their contracts disappear unless something rash was done.  But, it’s only a guess. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm I urge those of you with broadband to listen to this speech, it’s more important now than it was 30 years ago when Dr. King spoke those haunting words. 

If our president, our senators, representatives, and elected officials really cared about disarmament in Iran…North Korea for that matter, we’d see a call demanding a halt to the production of a new generation of WMDs.  Instead, we hear Bush and Rumsfeld and all the others speaking as though both systems are not the same. Does this sound like Shared Psychosis?  Take a look : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_à_deux

If you pray for peace, let your prayer be your hands, typing letters, and leaflets that you print up, photocopy and distribute to cars in parking lots, to passersby on the street.  Let your prayer be calling your mayor onto the carpet at city council meetings, demanding that he act against this insane drive towards new WMDs. Let your prayers be demands to senators to account for unilateral disarmament before we take on the task of arming our satellites.

“You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train“ - Howard Zinn
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12987.htm

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By Richard Fishenden, October 20, 2006 at 8:05 pm #
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There is no worse enemy than the one from within.  The only terrorist potent and dangerous enough to bring down our great nation, are the domestic terrorist disguised as so-called leaders and republicans.

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By richard, October 20, 2006 at 1:43 pm #
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Totally absurd..we need to destroy all weapons.so sad what is going on….

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By CB, October 20, 2006 at 12:56 pm #
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Do as we say, World, not as we do.

Remember: If a religious fanatic gets the bomb and threatens to detonate it in a city for political leverage, it’s terrorism. 

If a state does the same thing, it’s diplomacy. 

Here’s an interesting thought.  Could the Manhattan Project be the beginning of international terrorism?

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