Does the U.S. have WMD? (was Giant anti-war demonstration)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 22:57:20 MST

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    Damien writes

    > Sometimes this list makes my head spin. I simply can't believe
    > that anyone here would write what Ron h. just posted:
    >
    > > [Emlyn] writes: ...the US has weapons of mass
    > > destruction (and seems to want them)
    >
    > > ##Emlyn, please don't make such unfounded charges without any
    > > evidence. Of course I do understand why you wouldn't offer
    > > evidence of that charge -- there isn't any.
    >
    > So Emlyn has to *prove* that the United States (like the UK and several
    > other nation states) possesses and builds nuclear weapons?

    Hmm. Perhaps that's not such a bad idea! Now it's incontestible
    that the U.S. *had* weapons of mass destruction back in 1996,
    oh, wait, no, that was 1945. Even longer ago. But does that
    *prove* that the U.S. has them now?

    Sure, the U.S. says it does, just to intimidate everybody.
    But can they really be trusted?

    But the more economical alternative---no doubt seized upon
    in the early Eisenhower administration---was to just put
    up a dummy program. After all, who'd believe that the
    U.S. has no WMD? (Perhaps we should even demand proof
    that anyone on the planet has such awful things.)

    I'm not sure whether to credit Damien or Ron H. with this
    profound insight.

    Lee

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