--- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/9/07 11:36:01 A.M. Central Standard
Time,
> > > jedi_spock@ writes:
> > >
> > > The best Israel could do is 'mini tactical-nukes' that
destroy
> > only small
> > > areas. Huge mega city busters are a big NO NO.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Mini tactical nukes are what is being talked about, at least
in
> > the media.
> > > Mini tactical bunker busters that explode deep underground to
> > destroy the
> > > facility and hopefully keep above ground radiation to a
minimum.
> > There has been
> > > no talk of bombing cities with nukes. That is totally uncalled
for.
> > >
> > This is fantasyland bullshit by the warmongers. *Any* use of
nukes
> > will lead to all out war in the Middle East. Even more than now.
> >
> > Use of nuclear weapons against another country is an extremely
> > serious offense, and not something that is easily conceptualized
by
> > a bunch of armchair general-wannabees.
> >
>
> Jim, just because a collective experience is painful does not mean
it
> automatically must be a fantasy.
>
> Nagasaki and Hiroshima were real events.
>
> So may the scenario where Israel uses mini-nukes against the
Iranian
> nuclear program; followed by Israel being "wiped off the map" by
> prepositioned stray Russian nukes years ago bought and now set off
in
> Tel Aviv by Iran's Hamas or Hezbollah fronts - or Al-Qaeda; in turn
> followed by USA turning Iran into the world's largest self-glowing
> parking lot; which in turn results in Iranian sleeper cells
setting of
> nukes in large US cities; which, in turn, results in a GWB confused
> beyond salvation completely succumbs to paranoia and puts his
finger
> on the button chanting: "Hallelujah! The missiles are flying!"
>
I meant that the fantasy is in the minds of those who would consider
using nukes. They live in their heads, and are not tuned in to how
devastating and evil any use of nuclear weapons would be, even
the 'itty-bitty' ones.
