Horror at Dubya's secret attack plan for 7 countries
James A. Chamblee
Horror at Dubya's secret attack plan on 7countries
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By Alexandra Williams and Bob Roberts
The Daily Mirror - UK
9-16-02
President Bush faced world anger last night over America's
seven-nation nuclear hit list.
British MPs joined the outcry after a leaked Pentagon report
revealed contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia,
Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. The secret policy was
denounced as warmongering "lunacy".
Alarmed officials from Moscow to Tehran warned that the "power
crazy" President, buoyed up by the successful campaign in Afghanistan,
could plunge the world into chaos. British politicians said the strategy
threatened the stability of the NATO alliance.
International tension mounted as Washington pressed Britain to
back an attack on Iraq - including the possible commitment of 25,000
British troops to topple Saddam Hussein.
Cabinet Minister Clare Short hinted that she might resign if
Tony Blair supported a mass strike against Baghdad. She said: "We need to
deal
with the problem of Saddam Hussein - we don't need to inflict
further suffering on the people of Iraq."
Labour MPs Alice Mahon and Tam Dalyell will today deliver a
letter to 10 Downing Street warning the Prime Minister against joining any
military action.
US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in London last night for
talks with Mr Blair which will cover the threat posed by Iraq.
No 10 insisted last night: "No decisions have been taken."
Amid mounting anger, the target nations accused America of
intimidation and "wreaking havoc on the whole world" and branded the plans
a
"lunatic" threat to world peace.
In Britain, MPs said the sensational disclosures threatened
the
stability of the Western alliance.
Labour MP Alice Mahon said: "The lunatics have taken over the
White
House. This report must be ringing alarms throughout NATO". The
Pentagon document, known as the Nuclear Posture Review, was leaked
as the US lobbied Britain to join an invasion of Iraq.
International Development Secretary and Cabinet Minister Clare
Short hinted she might resign if a strike went ahead.
The review says the US must be ready to use nuclear weapons
against
China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. It then
identified
four areas where the US should be prepared to press the button:
In an Arab-Israeli conflict, in a war between China and
Taiwan,
in an attack by North Korea on South Korea and in an attack by Iraq
on Israel or another neighbor. Additionally, the weapons could be used
against targets able to withstand conventional attack and in
retaliation for the use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
They could also be used in the event of "surprising military
developments", reflecting fears that rogue states or terrorists
could deploy weapons against the US.
The review, leaked to the Los Angeles Times, orders the
military to plan for the use of "smaller nuclear weapons" as a more
effective
deterrent against terrorist attacks. It also calls for cruise missiles to
carry nuclear weapons. It is the first time the US has reviewed its
nuclear
strategy since 1994 and the first list of target nations to be made
public.
Last night it was seen as a warning to those states who might
be
harboring terrorists. In Russia, defense hawk General Leonid
Ivashov said: "The heart of US political doctrine is to push powerful
Russia off the political scene."
Russian politician Dmitry Rogozin added: "This is a nuclear
stick intended to intimidate us." Vyacheslav Nikonov, of the Politika
think
tank, branded the plans a "very negative signal" which would be "received
in an
appropriate fashion by Russia's leadership".
Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an aide to
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: "The US believes that by
threatening countries they'll withdraw their demands. Their
policy is one of intimidation."
The Tehran Times newspaper said: "This indicates the US is
going
to
wreak havoc on the world to establish its domination." Professor Michael
Yahuda, professor of international relations at the London School of
Economics, warned: "China won't be happy to be classified
among
rogue nations."
Liberal Democrat spokesman Menzies Campbell said: "America
seems
to
be moving from nuclear deterrence to nuclear war fighting.
"It would drive a coach and horses through NATO's doctrine of
nuclear strikes as a last resort."
US Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted the report did not
signal imminent action.
He said: "We should not get carried away with some sense the
US
plans to use nuclear weapons in some contingency in the near future.
"It's not the case. What the Pentagon has done with this is
sound military, conceptual planning.
"Not a single nation is being targeted by an American nuclear
weapon on a day-to-day basis."
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice added: "We all want
to make the use of weapons of mass destruction less likely.
"The way that you do that is to send a very strong signal to
anyone who might use them against the United States that they'd be met
with
a
devastating response."
Vice-President Dick Cheney arrived in London last night to meet
Tony Blair. He is expected to appeal for military support against
Iraq. It is reported the US will ask for up to 25,000 British troops to
form part of an invasion force.
In the first sign of a Cabinet split, Ms Short denounced any
invasion plans yesterday. She said: "An all-out military attack is, of
course, not at all sensible.
"We need to deal with the problem of Saddam Hussein. We don't
need to inflict further suffering on the people of Iraq."
Ms Short said the best answer was to allow UN inspectors back
into Iraq, a move firmly ruled out by Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin
Ramadan yesterday. Her warning amounted to a threat to resign if there
is a strike against Iraq. Donald Anderson, Labour chairman of the Commons
foreign affairs select committee, said military action on Iraq must
only be a last resort.
He said: "I think there are reckless elements in the Pentagon
who are on a roll because of Afghanistan.
"I would hope part of the task of our Government is to
influence those who take a contrary view."
Downing Street played down the reports of an American request for
British troops. A spokesman said: "No decisions have been
taken, let alone any requests made."
maureen
<jim-ch...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>BUSH'S NUCLEAR 'LUNACY'
>Horror at Dubya's secret attack plan on 7countries
>President Bush faced world anger last night over America's
>seven-nation nuclear hit list.
>British MPs joined the outcry after a leaked Pentagon report
> revealed contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia,
> Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. The secret policy was
> denounced as warmongering "lunacy".
> Alarmed officials from Moscow to Tehran warned that the "power
> crazy" President, buoyed up by the successful campaign in Afghanistan,
> could plunge the world into chaos. British politicians said the strategy
> threatened the stability of the NATO alliance.
I'm glad to see the world is finally waking up to Bush's warmongering
lunacy. How many Americans will see news on this leaked Pentagon
report?
And while the Bush Administration is making plans to attack Iraq the
heat is being taken off al-Qaeda. Too many irons in the fire...
maureen
Robert Thomas
news:3d8877c3...@news1.on.sympatico.ca...
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 06:55:26 -0400, "James A. Chamblee"
> <jim-ch...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >BUSH'S NUCLEAR 'LUNACY'
> >Horror at Dubya's secret attack plan on 7countries
>
> >President Bush faced world anger last night over America's
> >seven-nation nuclear hit list.
>
> >British MPs joined the outcry after a leaked Pentagon report
> > revealed contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia,
> > Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya. The secret policy was
> > denounced as warmongering "lunacy".
>
> > Alarmed officials from Moscow to Tehran warned that the "power
> > crazy" President, buoyed up by the successful campaign in Afghanistan,
> > could plunge the world into chaos. British politicians said the
strategy
> > threatened the stability of the NATO alliance.
>
> I'm glad to see the world is finally waking up to Bush's warmongering
> lunacy. How many Americans will see news on this leaked Pentagon
> report?
>
> And while the Bush Administration is making plans to attack Iraq the
> heat is being taken off al-Qaeda. Too many irons in the fire...
>
nuclear and non nuclear.
So, it doesn't "feel good".
?????
bob
Fcattus
John
Robert Thomas
news:20020918152815...@mb-fy.aol.com...
> Didn't make the news in the US.
>
cheers
bob
M.J.John
Should America attack Iraq? Should Iraq attack America? Should India
attack Pakistan or should Pakistan attack India? Should Hutus attack
Tutsi or should Tutsi attack Hutus? Should Catholics attack
Protestants or should Shias attack Sunnis and vice
versa?…………….. Should X attack Y?
These are the sorts of frequently asked questions topmost in the minds
of extreme fundamentalists of all hues, including Christian, Muslim
and Hindu fundamentalists the world over today.
Well, my own answer to all these questions is a big ‘yes’
if, and only if, the winner, in the process, can at least solve their
own problems even by one percent other than aggravating them. Look at
America, the sole winner of the long protracted cold war. America
today has more problems -- many of them more serious – than when
she was the challenger. Worse still is the mortal fact that America is
finding unable to solve these serious problems even after roping in
almost all her allies and also her erstwhile foes of the cold war,
namely the former communist nations, including Russia and China. Iraq
and Iran are, otherwise, grappling with more serious problems, which
they have inherited as a result of the long Iran-Iraq war. Are not the
Rhuwandan tribes of Hutus and Tutsis much more disillusioned lots
today?
Then what is the main cause for this sudden and widespread rise of
extreme fundamentalism and zero tolerance the world over so as to
ignite a thousand battles which are being waged both outside and
inside nations, and the war filtering down to feuds within even
families?
And this question has become crucial for the first time in human
history, not only when weapons of mass destruction have reached the
hands of private individuals, but also when more potential dangers
from pollutions, of both material and spiritual varieties, have indeed
paled into insignificance the dangers from the weapons of mass
destruction. Actually the most catastrophic dangers from pollutions
stare menacingly right on the face of every thinking man today.
The answer, therefore, for the above question of course is FEAR. Fear
stricken cowards have come to the fore everywhere today. When cowards
ranting revenges and rescue have all become leaders – be he the
leader of a nation or a terrorist organization – the crises
ridden modern society looks like an ill-fated ship in mid-sea badly
caught in fierce whirlwinds and the crews and passengers all being
engaged in petty brawls in their bid for individual escape--resulting
in escape for none.
Fear grips America
With the passage of the controversial ‘Patriotic Bill’
and other recent censorship laws on personal mails and telephones
which are being imposed in America the much hidden ‘iron
curtain’ of scientific capitalism is proving to be no less than
the much maligned and now dismantled communist ‘iron
curtain’ of the erstwhile Soviet Union. Today anybody can point
a finger of suspicion towards anybody in America and the victim can be
kept in custody for any duration with no question asked. That one in a
thousand does not turn out to be any real culprit is another matter
altogether. But once a suspect in the police computer dossiers is
always a suspect in a computer regulated mechanical society, that
exactly is what America is today. Thus today’s America looks
more like a Stalinist Russia or a Hitler’s Germany which killed
millions of Jews just for the fear of being over run by them. ( I am
quoting this development only as an example of hundreds of similar
developments going on unabated as the ongoing civilization decay goes
on feeding one another which is inevitable in any such invisible
revolutions at the initial stage.)
To me, all these look merely suicidal escapism. But how long can we
survive frightening people? How long can you defend truth when you
cannot even cry loudly?
Conspiracies of Fear
Why and how does the modern science – the linear shortcut
methodology – succeed as man, nature and truth fail? Because, in
a highly competitive society, where expediency, opportunism and
shortcuts rule the roost, there is no provision for a second thought,
a thought for humanity and human values, a thought for the greater and
nobler manifestations of life. And this happens because of fear, fear
towards realities and truth which are multidimensional unlike science
which is only a fragile, linear and single dimensional process.
Fear was non-extinct in nature for millions of years and man roamed
about fearlessly when nights were as fearless as days. But today,
modern man, though he may claim to walk the distant Moon or the highly
inhabitable Antartica terrain, cannot, however, walk the American
streets – or any street any where over the planet – at
night.
It was the upholders of man-made social techniques – laws
– who fearing realities and truth, once poisoned Socretes,
crucified Jesus Christ, ignored Rousseau and Nietzche and shot dead
Abraham Lincon, Mahatma Gandhi and millions of Jews.
This conspiracy of fear is today waging a thousand battles –
among them the 2001 September 11 terrorist strike and the possible
(would be) strike on Iraq by America, for, what is lavishly fed by the
conspiracy of fear on the rumor mill as fodder is the conspiracy of
ignorance and fear.
And this has led to the new reality that man today finds another man
as his real enemy. But is that the reality? The real enemy is
actually within him. It is the superficial he, the apparent he, the
expedient, opportunist and the vested interest he, and the ignorant he
who is unable to realize the real he. Or plainly, his inability or
unwillingness to look at the ground realities and truth is his real
enemy.
The fast shrinking of all provisions for a second thought – or
even the first -- is the most dangerous problem blocking even the
escape route of the mankind today. And fear and ignorance thus first
shoot the messenger. For what the owners and operators of the
competitive and mechanical society fears are the possible questions on
their fundamental and their very legitimacy.
Contradictions go such haywire that most of the modern wars are being
fiercely fought more within the nation than outside it, more within
the same group, party, sect, caste, creed and even within the same
family than outside it, between the parents and the children, husband
and wife, among the sane village governing board members, among the
Mullahs, among the Bishops and Priests, between the Prime minister
and the President of the same Nation etc.
All these confusions and turmoil become the great windfall for the
market and the middlemen who are out fishing in troubled waters, which
exactly is what is going on throughout the modern society today. Here,
the waning power of the parents are not gained by the children but by
the market and the middlemen; the waning power of the teacher is not
gained by the students but by the market, the middleman; the waning
power of the man is not gained by the woman(let alone their much hyped
women’s right’s movements) but by the market and by the
middleman. It is the market or the middleman who gains the power and
“values” lost as a result of the growing contradictions,
competitions and wars going on among leaders, religious hierarchies,
intellectuals, politicians, academicians etc., within the same
establishment/institution. And market or the middleman instantly
converts the newly gained power and values into money and thus the
creation of the synthetic or artificial wealth as a result of the loss
or destruction of the natural and traditional wealth of man and
nature.
Soulless scientism and the unbridled mechanization, undertaken by the
market forces or middlemen, have equated to everything, including
evils, as--‘relative’, thanks to the theory of
relativity--mobile and interchangeabl, even remotely today. And made
them available at the press of a button as packaged products to anyone
who is willing to pay back in cash. So today, money rules or middleman
rules, who, in the process, has destroyed all human values and natural
wealth by bartering them for the abstract wealth called money, and
today, e-money, which we use today to buy the newly
machine-made synthetic wealth most of which polluting and filling the
Earth surface as, for example, plastics.
The evolution of the competitive society and the suicidal one-up
games.
Why is it that America needs today to buy the services of only the
brain and not the service of the mind? The growing brain-drain of the
world is due to their convergence in America, which suggests just
that. Why does America today increasingly shun and snub all feedback
on the philosophical front although she is welcoming and absorbing all
feedback on the intelligent and other technically market front as the
beelines of top professionals and experts marketmen towards America
suggests? What keeps the modern world going the way it does today?
It is all because of a new type of French courage, a super mechanical
market courage, that, for example, America, of late, has come to
exhibit due to an addiction of continued success stories having gone
to her head, an addiction due to the repeated bouts of technical and
market success that America is reaping over and over again ever since
Mr. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of America (1923 – 29)
came out with a new slogan and a password for the
“success” of America: “ The business of America is
business”, he said in a speech.
Gone are the days when great minds and world statesmen from, within
and without, enriched American intellectual society and made it a
great Nation during the 18th and 19th Century. It was when great
thinkers made America their home away from their original home
Nations. Later, during the 20th Century we could see only great
thinkers and philosophers like Will Durant and Betrand Russel
lamenting over the fast erosion of the long cherished American values
– human values – from the fast mechanizing American
society, which is today fostering only technical (synthetic) values
– market values.
Consequences: America on trial
Repeatedly being tried by both the friends and foes alike the world
over for their own selfish ends or for other purposes, today’s
America is in close focus in almost every private and public forum,
often ending as the eye of storm in many groups of diverse interest
the world over. Directly targeted by over half a dozen rouge nations
and being the target of almost 50 percent of terrorist attack the
world over, America is today facing its moment of truth in history
even at the ‘height of its glory’ as the undisputed global
leader today.
Today, it is as futile for America to eliminate terrorism by force as
it is for terrorists to strike at America and teach “her
lessons”. For both are only targeting and responding at the
symptoms and not at the basic virus which go on producing and
multiplying symptoms in one form after another and at a time when any
act of violence is certainly proving suicidal for both the parties in
a world filled with powder kegs all over. If the American people loose
the faith in the American leadership, no technical military might, FBI
or CIA,however world class they may be, can save America.
But what worries me most is another fact altogether: that America
getting drained faster than it drains the world, though it may claim
to be growing by leaps and bounds, that the wealth which America
accumulates in the process is only of the synthetic variety, or the
abstract wealth – money which only helps to destroy the real
wealth, the natural wealth the world over.
And being the unique super power leader of the world, America’s
moment of truth is automatically the moment of truth for the whole
world – and, therefore, of the whole mankind today.
Is there a way out?
Well, let us give truth a chance!
But what is truth?
Truth was there everywhere when ‘God’ or, as modern
science puts it, the ‘Big Bang’ created nature, and when
nature created man in its “shape” and
“imaginations”—man to be the crown of all creations.
And this long evolving truth began to face music – the moment of
truth – when suddenly man started to interfere with the
nature’s logic and to make copies and models of truth or natural
materials and phenomena using what he called hypothesis or what has
come to evolve as modern sciences, which went on creating artificial
models or copies of nature or natural phenomena which looks
“smarter” than originals. Facts replaced truth and
fictions began to look more friendly than realities and truth which
then started to look stranger than fictions – untruth. Today we
have a man-made nature or world – he calls it by many names
like, post industrial society, wired globe, information age, global
village etc. Today it looks a giant social machine or man-made
mechanical system, which has hooked man to serve it, rather than to
control it. And thus man became a “tool of his own tool”
In controlling nature and truth we indeed made a sudden 180-degree
turn from the millions of years old nature-controlled or
truth-controlled-natural evolutionary process. Now facing dead ends at
the peak of every modern development, modern man is all set to be
heading towards not progress but regress -- towards a synthetic world
of fictions and untruth, for he has simply reversed its millions of
years old direction of true progress.
Disillusioned and facing crisis and dead ends everywhere, modern man
sometimes makes an outcry for going back to nature – truth.
Using such catchy slogans like environmentalism, naturalism, ecology
movements and what not. But it has not yet donned on him that today
there is today no such real nature or truth left to go back. All we
have today is a big “republic of pollution”, bereft of
even drinkable water or breathable air, which too are vitiated to the
brim apart from the all-round vitiation of even the spiritual
faculties as well.
Here it is pertinent to ask whether modern man has any idea of the
real shape, taste, texture, color and power of real nature or truth?
Truth has indeed become a perfect baffle to all modern human
understanding. And that is why we say that truth has today become
stranger than fictions. Or that why Harry Truman wrote: “I never
give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is
hell”.
Thus, can now anybody afford to uphold truth?
Does anyone today want truth?
Why has truth become the number one enemy of modern society?
Why does modern man drop truth like a hot potato?
Unless we are able to answer these questions truly and unambiguously,
all our discussions, all these social summits – ‘the earth
submits’ included – are going to be futile exercises, just
another sort of ‘politics’, which we seem to have had
enough. And the time is running out.
For these are the questions still evolving answer-less for centuries.
Despite all our effort to unfold and uphold truth we only end up in
making truth murkier and murkier, by rendering the methodology more
and more ‘technical’, ambiguous and sophisticated –
synthetic. For there is more money, and more charm(being sophisicated)
in evading truth, in camouflaging truth, in showing and showcasing
‘truth’ bit by bit, as ‘compartmentalized’ and
‘specialized’ than in permitting truth fully exposed,
naked and raw.
Truth is like a naked young woman wandering on the public as an orphan
whom every body wants to stone in public branding her as prostitute
although most of them want to exploit her in private, leaving her more
and more fragile.
Those great souls and humans who dared to help her in public –
“ let the un-sinned stone her,” said Jesus Christ –
only got their hands burned. And thus Socretes was poisoned, Christ
was crucified and Gandhiji was shot dead for their boldness in helping
the hapless and the exploited.
For there is no money in being a Christ other than being his Judas, by
revealing truth -- ‘technically’, by courting truth in
private and in part, through a ‘technical’ (mechanical,
‘scientific’) kiss, a kiss without passion, humanity or
love. So in this highly mechanized, technical society, we all live on,
by brokering truth, by courting truth through techniques. We have all
ended up cheating and fooling truth using our ‘pure’
logic, or hypothesis called the modernism – a sophisticated mix
of science, art and market.
For our market mandarins and the present world movers know that there
is more clout and cash only in presenting truth part by part, a bit
here and a bit there, like a high profile and provocative show girl
making a revolt of her body and sex part by part and the craving and
ravening rich men coughing bundles of money then and there.
Owners and operators of modern technology and market play no different
roles by making the modern social process highly technical,
sophisticated, compartmentalized and specialized. A single modern
consumer product or package is made in over a dozen different nations
as different parts only to be finally assembled in another country.
After having ensured its sale as a solution to the problems which they
may create in the first place, and they go on reaping continued
“success stories” by continuously perpetuating the
problematic situations, and themselves posing as the ‘good
Samaritans’ and as the much published
“philanthropists”.
It is thus futile for man to expect and rely on the present
mechanical society that it will realize its catastrophic follies,
accept realities and truths, and come to the side of the real truth
seekers and truth upholders, even at this eleventh hour. For it has
only the record of persecuting all its true messengers, real prophets
and truth seekers, from Socretes to Mahatma Gandhi.
The world will, of course, accept truth and realities when it has made
them toothless – marketable. That is, when it has made sure that
it has an effective control on truths and can easily duplicate and
exploit them, and also when the real upholders of truths and realities
are no more in a position to resist effectively – when they are
either dead or senile. The world may even bestow upon them such
prestigious awards like Nobel Prizes; most of the live recipients are
either fake or their causes themselves fakes (highly marketable) like
the modern technologies and arts which are fakes or artificial of the
highest order by being born out of fictitious (hypothetical)
approaches.
Thus we have all modern Christian leaders doing the real roles of
modern-day Judases; communist leaders betraying true communism; Muslim
leaders betraying true Islam; Hindu leaders as enemies of real
Hinduism, capitalists deceiving a true Adam Smith; democratic leaders
as traitors of true democracy; scientists, experts and middlemen as
the real enemies of layman – mankind. The sole culprit for the
vitiation of all these otherwise benign humanist sectors of social
life is professionalism.
Today, we have all professionals, careerists, experts and thieves,
thanks to their patronage of modern science, art and market, who can
dominantly function as the modern-day leaders as upholders of pseudo
values pseudo truths. And they go the whole hog to exhort others to
uphold such (synthetic) values and truth--democracy, religion, science
etc.. No exploiter or thief can survive without the common man, the
mass and the gullible as the base and as the buffer – as the
true upholders of values and truths that, alas, we are all today.
Note
May be this is a highly inadequate statement/message to understand
the highly complex, wheels within wheels process called modernism
which has started flinging such suicidal gambling trends too
frequently, of late. Well, as for my part let me invite your precious
attention to some of my own analysis and diagnosis of this monolith
called modernism which, while remaining itself as a paradise for the
mechanical and the fake, nevertheless, is a mortal paradox for the
real and the human, as I find it today. To know what it is, why it is,
and how it is – please ‘click’ on to GREEN BULLETIN
BOARDCALIFORNIA/PACIFICA/GREEN BLLETIN BOARD messages: Right
and Wrong; Should X attack Y; Shrinking Diversity Diminishing
Understanding Zeroing Tolerance; Sick Man Sick Society Sick Planet;
Let nature a chance let man live; Induction versus Deduction;
Professionalism the greatest threat to all life forms; (by this author
'M.J.John').
John
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