Your reactions seem very short sighted. The US will not use nuclear weapons in an unprovoked, offensive manner. If a foreign enemy launches or detonates a nuclear device/weapon in New York, London, Moscow, Paris, etc. the President reserves the right to use nuclear weapons as one of many options in response. If Saddam drops a Nuke on Israel and gives signs that it will do it again, what then? We keep letting him? You think Tony Blair will stand by if London is attacked and hope that it won't happen again. I think that Truman's decision was the correct one and if given the same scenario (drop the bomb and the war/violence will end, or risk losing countless other innocent lives) I think the President should use the same decision making process. I don't care if it's Bush, Clinton, Reagan, or Carter; I feel sorry for the man that has to make that decision.
Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions 1900 Highland Avenue, Suite 200 Lombard, IL 60148 630-627-5055 ext.-136 630/627-5255 Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: Haggerty, Michael A. To: CF-Community Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: RE: Nukes This just seems so irresponsible. For us to publicly go around picking fights with other countries AND backing up our words with the threat of nuclear war is just bad politics. Imagine if China did that with us over Taiwan. -----Original Message----- From: Braver, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:37 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Nukes Michael, Yeah, we've gone from "nookie" to "nukey" and with a Pres who thinks there is such a word as "nucular" <shudder> Somehow I think a little bl*w j*b matters less in the great scheme of things than possibly blowing up a city or country. <sigh> -Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Michael A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:16 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Nukes > > > http://www.comcast.net/smedia/asiawire_2002_03_10_asian_1411-0 > 392-US-Nuclear > 3rdLd-Writethru..html > > Watch out for the link monster on this one... senior cabinet > officials are > starting to talk about nuking terrorist countries. Somebody provided > another list of countries we don't like, and it included > China this time. > > *wistful sigh* Does anyone else _really_ wish the headlines > coming out of > the White House could go back to being about sex scandals > instead of nuking > the third world? > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
