From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 20:06:19 MDT
On 14 Sep 2002 at 15:50, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> [joe]
> > But if he develops one or more, and keeps them secret, he can have
> > one or more transported, by his own agents or those of Al Quaeda or
> > another terrorist organization, into the midst of a US or European
> > or Israeli city for detonation, and deny responsibility. A 60
> > Minutes program just last night demonstrated how easy it would be to
> > undetectedly transport 15kg of fissile uranium from that region into
> > the heart of New York City. The bomb components could be shipped
> > separately, and the device assembled onsite. We just cannot risk it.
>
> [archibald]
> Saddam could maybe, possibly, if all goes well for him, sneak one or
> two
> bombs into the U.S.
> Enough to destroy a major metropolitan area and the surrounding
> communities.
>
And not something that the US can risk - period.
>
> Bush has access to enough nuclear weapons to kill every living
> organism on the planet multiple times over. In fact the combined power
> of the U.S.' nuclear arsenal if detonated in one spot could probably
> blow a hole in the crust of the earth and destroy most of the surface
> of the planet.
>
It wouldn't bring the citizens of the nuked US metropolitan areas back to
life.
>
> Bush is equally as insane as Saddam and about a 1/3 as intelligent.
>
> Bush is the one threatening war, not Saddam.
>
Bush is planning to conventionally oust Saddam so that he won't make
a nuclear response necessary in the future; this seems eminently
sensible to me.
>
> Smile
> Archibald
>
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