Nucyaler "bunker busters"

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 11:27:01 MST

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    > (Terry W. Colvin <fortean1@mindspring.com>):
    > OK, so let's follow this track of logic. Weapons of mass
    > destruction are bad. Really bad. They're evil. That's why
    > Saddam has to go, because he has WMD. Wellllll..the US has
    > WMD too, what's the deal here, are WE evil? Why of course
    > not. OUR WMD exist only as deterrents. Nobody would dare
    > nuke us, because we would then nuke them. So we would
    > NNNEEEVVVEERRRR use ours first, you see...

    That's one thing that definitely bothers me about many of the
    pro-war arguments--the idea that Iraq's possession of WMDs is
    somehow relevant. It's not. Free countries have every right to
    use any technology at their disposal for defense: we don't much
    care that the UK has nukes. Even semi-free countries like France
    or non-free but basically sane countries like China don't bother
    us. The reason for going after Iraq is not the kinds of weapons
    he might have, but the kind of person in charge, who is the kind
    of person likely to throw his weapons at Israel on a whim. Memes
    are the enemy, not mechs.

    -- 
    Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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