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Will air raid drills be far behind if Bush and the GOP retain power?

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 5 November 2006
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Will air raid drills be far behind if Bush and the GOP retain power?
By Mary MacElveen
November 5, 2006

I am going to ask this question based upon based upon this Times Online article: Nuclear steps put region on brink of most fearful era yet, exactly how has the Bush/GOP led government made the world safer?

This article cites “with the sudden rush by Arabs, Iranians and Turks to master nuclear technology and one day unlock the secrets to the atomic bomb.” They also have stated that it is “IT IS one of the world’s most unstable regions, where conflicts over land, ideology and religion have raged for centuries.”

As I have written in the past how Russia has gone onto rebuild the arms race in which I pointed out, “the Russian army activated a new fleet of Topol-M missiles that can fit a nuclear warhead and travel 6,000 miles, changing trajectory to foil any enemy interception device. "

All of this has happened under Bush’s watch, yet he can claim he is making our country safer?

In a previous column written by the Scotsman: Putin’s show of strength triggers fear of a new nuclear arms race, I also pointed out this fact contained within the article “Vladimir Putin has sparked fears of a new arms race between Russia and the United States by deploying a nuclear ballistic strike force system that officials made clear could penetrate US anti- missile defenses."

Please pay attention to what Gen Solovtsov has stated of these missiles that they are “immune to electromagnetic blasts used by current US anti-missile systems.” Do we start air-raid drills all over again?

For those of us who do remember the Cold War era, please take note of what the Scotsman reported of Russia “it has now formed more than 20 new units - in the fastest increase of nuclear spending since the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.”

Both Bush and the GOP have engaged us in a war in Iraq in which we suffered a blood bath in October meanwhile as reported by the Scotsman “the nuclear missile programme has been revived and was last month allocated a £1 billion budget increase from the Kremlin. This has boosted Mr Putin’s popularity.” What has supported this program is their “oil wealth”

We must also remember on July 4th, of this year, North Korea test fired five rockets and just recently test fired a nuclear device. This is what the GOP led government has not been paying attention to during these past six years.

In addressing the first article, I was alarmed as I read “Saudi Arabia, traditionally Iran’s main rival for control of the Gulf. The leadership has consistently cautioned about the dangers of nuclear expansion in the region. Now it has signaled that it too wants to join the club.”

Doesn’t it concern you as Bush launched the immoral offensive in Iraq which has taken the lives of over 2,800 U.S. soldiers and according to Lancet 655,000 innocent Iraqis that everyone wants in this nuclear club?

Bush cited that we should all be alarmed at Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction which we all now see as a smoke screen, yet we have seen an increase of true weapons of mass destruction coming from other nations such as Russia and North Korea. As evident in the first article, we may see it coming from one of the most un-stable regions of the world.

Speaking of Saddam Hussein, he has now been sentenced to death and one wonders what ramifications will be felt and more importantly seen coming from Iraq. Will a blood bath come to fruition based upon that sentence? As I read of his sentence being handed down “Some feared the court decision could exacerbate the sectarian violence that has pushed the country to the brink of civil war,” While his verdict is seen as “as a referendum on the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq.” We must truly remember that Bush’s policy in Iraq has been a failed one.

Even David Frum who co-wrote Bush 2002 “axis of evil” speech which included Iraq had this to say "the insurgency has proven it can kill anyone who cooperates, and the United States and its friends have failed to prove that it can protect them." This situation, he says, must ultimately be blamed on "failure at the center"-starting with President Bush.”

Richard Perle opined this in a recent Vanity Fair article "The levels of brutality that we’ve seen are truly horrifying, and I have to say, I underestimated the depravity," Perle says now, adding that total defeat-an American withdrawal that leaves Iraq as an anarchic "failed state"-is not yet inevitable but is becoming more likely. "And then," says Perle, "you’ll get all the mayhem that the world is capable of creating."

Do not let Saddam’s sentence be the basis of your vote on Tuesday as we have seen so many lives taken and based upon lies. Richard Perle stated “At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.” Which is reminiscent of when the late President Harry S. Truman stated, “The buck stops here”

Reverting back to this possible nuclear program within the Middle East, I want all of you to pay close attention to this ending sentence “fears that the Middle East is entering the most dangerous period of its history.”

As Bush has made us fearful of ourselves by raping the United States Constitution through the Military Commissions Act as well as his right to eaves drop on who he perceives as an ‘enemy combatant’, he has not kept the eye on the ball when it has come to this new nuclear nightmare that has unfolded before our very eyes.

On Tuesday’s Election Day we are to hold these people accountable, Peter King, Joe Lieberman, and others that Bush has supported as he has campaigned relentlessly in the last days of these all important elections. In the first congressional district in New York State, we must not even entertain the notion of electing an inexperienced Republican candidate, Italo Zanzi. We need the experience coming from Congressman, Tim Bishop. The same can be said of Republican, Bob Corker who is running against an experienced elected official Harold Ford, Jr. While Corker has been running racist ads, these are the serious issues that he is failing to address.

What these examples have shown me is that both Bush and the GOP have dropped the ball when it comes to national security and world security. If Bush and the GOP retain power, do we start air raid drills all over again?

http://www.marymacelveen.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/5/2475284.html

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Forum posts

  • Sorry, but you got some facts wrong. Not Russia started the arms race and is still not doing it. When the Bush Regime came to power the got out of all arm reducing treaties with Russia. Then they started to announce they will deploy US rockets in Poland, Romania and Asia. At the same time they US revived star wars.

    So don’t blame it on the Russians and is the US Regime which starts all over again.

    • No one is blaming the Russians for re-starting the nuclear arms race, most especially Ms. MacElveen.

      She is merely citing more evidence of the fact that the Repukables’ claims of making the US safer and our lives more secure are utterly without basis and amount to being sheer lies.
      The next thing these corrupt parasites will claim responsibility for is the Earth’s rotation, or even gravity itself.
      "Vote for us, otherwise there will be no more sunrises, and the stars in the sky will fall on top of us".

      All I can say is that any political party that uses a terrorist leader like Osama Bin Laden as their commercial spokesman is either run by escaped inmates from Bellevue or they secretly support terrorists and their agenda themselves.

      In either case, they suck donkey dick, BIG TIME.

  • I remember the ’duck and cover’ turtle BS from grade school in the 50’s. What an f’ing joke.
    All you have to remember is that the bankers don’t make money on peace.