Insanity Reigns: New US strategy of Pre-emptive Nuke Attacks
Pre-emptive Nuke Attacks! Who voted for this?!
The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to pre-empt an attack by a nation or terror group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
The document, written by the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs staff but not yet approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld…
full story at Wash Post or BellaCiao
Oh Great! The only thing that will stop this from becoming official policy is a sober assessment by Rumsfled… ha ha ha ha ha - sounds funny just typing it.
So let me get this straight… the attack on Iraq was a pre-emptive attack which turned out to be a big mistake. OOPS, sorry, they didn’t have WMDs. So now the insane members of the Bush cabal want to repeat, but this time with nuclear weapons. I guess in their eyes it’s better, because then nobody will ever know if the pre-emption was necessary or not- all the evidence was destroyed- how convenient.
This is F*@%ing insane!!!
JP 3-12: Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations
Related fact: This plan was written by Gen. Richard Myers- who on 9/11 saw the first burning tower, then went into a meeting and didn’t come out until it was all over - one of the mistakes that led to no fighter jets that morning.
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September 23rd, 2005 at 2:36 pm
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