RE: From NewsMax.com: Rumsfeld: Nukes Not Considered for Terrorist Retaliation

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Verzonden: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:06 PM
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> Onderwerp: Re: From NewsMax.com: Rumsfeld: Nukes Not Considered for
> Terrorist Retaliation
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> In a message dated 9/21/01 1:00:19 PM, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << RUMSFELD: We've not given consideration nor discussion to that
> particular issue. You're going to hear so many different things about 
> what the United States may or may not do with respect to financial
> matters or covert matters or military matters. And I suspect that most
> of the people that are offering those suggestions are people that don't
> those suggestions are people that don't know much about what's going
> on. (End of Excerpt) >>
> 
> So we now have a clear statement on the American use of nuclear weapons
> from a senior government official.  Jeroen, your thoughts?

It is of course good to hear that the United States do not have plans to use
nuclear weapons (although it would not surprise me at all if the US would
use nuclear weapons anyway -- I am not exactly known on this list for
blindly believing everything the US government says).

I do not believe however that the US government or the Pentagon has not even
considered or discussed the use of nuclear weapons, as Rumsfeld claims. The
US *has* those weapons, so they certainly must have considered using them.


Jeroen

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