American Hiroshima – the next 9/11? (aljazeera barf alert)

Aljazeera ^ | Saturday 26 November 2005

[exDemocratbutnotRepubican]

Former US Defence Secretary William Perry says there is an even chance of a nuclear attack on the US this decade.

Bill Perry goes way out on a limb here, If it happens, he can say I told you so. And if it doesn't, he can say that he thought it equally likely not to happen. He gives himself ten years to find out

[SeeSalt]

"If they think we're weak now, that our armed services are at their limits, they have no idea what we would be capable of doing."

The Dem/leftist/Lib/ actually feed the Islamic illusion of American weakens.

[B.Bumbleberry]

Joint Chiefs of Staff presented a plan called Operation Northwood, which is now declassified. It proposed conducting mass casualty attacks on American targets and blaming it on Cuba to rally public support for war against Fidel Castro.

I'd be surprised if this is true. Does anyone have access or a link to this written document?

[nuf said]

If our response to some airplanes crashing into three buildings was a full scale shock and awe campaign, what do you think our response to a nucular attack would be?

[SandRat]

They also need to understand their history. In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented a plan called Operation Northwood, which is now declassified. It proposed conducting mass casualty attacks on American targets and blaming it on Cuba to rally public support for war against Fidel Castro. President Kennedy rejected the plan. So we shouldn’t just assume any future attack on our soil is the work of al-Qaida.

Break out the tinfoil hats

So much more of this sounds like the Sheehanistas screed.

[Beckwith]

I would like to know what American policy is in such an event?

Would the remaining politicians hold a meeting or would the middle east be turned into glass?

When the Soviets were the adversary, the rules were clear.

What are the rules now, Mr. President?

[GOPJ]

All these wars form a continuum of injustice. Look at the UN economic sanctions in the 1990s that the US and UK refused to lift: over a million Iraqis died, including 500,000 children. That’s more than the number who died from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombings.

As it turns out, it was the "oil for food" UN creeps that killed the children. Not "sanctions". Will these people ever get it straight? Or is it more important to push lies that "fit their story" than tell the truth??

[grey_whiskers]

Point-by-Point Multiple Sarcasm Torpedoes ARMED. FIRE!!!

They also need to understand their history. In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented a plan called Operation Northwood, which is now declassified. It proposed conducting mass casualty attacks on American targets and blaming it on Cuba to rally public support for war against Fidel Castro. President Kennedy rejected the plan. So we shouldn’t just assume any future attack on our soil is the work of al-Qaida.

Yep, we at FreeRepublic already know that the Dems tend to be enemies of freedom.
Kennedy was a Democrat.
And Democrats were in charge for Elian Gonzalez and for Waco, too.

If you consider that there are over 500 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay from over 40 countries - though not a single one is from Iraq – and that the CIA recruited thousands of people from over 40 countries to be part of that war – none from Iraq – you can better understand how the US played a direct role in creating what became the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Yup. And if you consider that the attack on the Khobar Towers, the attack on the USS Cole, and the attack on 9-11 all happened before we started putting prisoners in Gitmo, or invaded Iraq, you'll wonder how anyone could get his head so far up his *ss as this guy has.

Looking at what happened in 1979 it can put a lot of this in perspective. As Reagan came into office, the US embassy hostages in Iran were released after 444 days in captivity. Americans don’t know this wasn’t a coincidence.

It is the Arab Street and hopeless perfumed princes and their ilk that think this was a coincidence. Americans knew that Reagan wasn't going to screw around--if the hostages weren't released PRONTO! he would probably have used ICBM's. On Mecca.
And by the way, nice job one pussy-footing around who was President when the hostages got taken. Yes, another Democrat, Jimmuh Cartuh, who is relieved that Bill Clinton came along to claim the title of "worst US president...ever."

[grey_whiskers]

Ultimately, Americans need to understand many of them will die and parts of their country will become uninhabitable unless they hold their government to account.

this sounds like a warning to me

Actually, he's right. In fact, it's already begun.

Ever hear of Mayor Nagin, Gov. Blanco, and Hurricane Katrina?

...oh, and I almost forgot. Democrats again!

[sheik yerbouty]

Idiotic jihadists fail to understand that thermonuclear trumps nuclear..

[nuconvert]

"Will these people ever get it straight? Or is it more important to push lies that "fit their story" than tell the truth??"

We all know the answer to that.

[DogBarkTree]

We better take this barf seriously. It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.