Posted on 03/30/2009 10:21:04 AM PDT by Pellegrino
Newt's warning about N.Korea's threatened "satellite" launch and "criminal negligence" of Obama's dismantling and defunding of our missile defense systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
It wouldn't have mattered.
That was around 10 years before the transistor (and solid state devices and controls) were even invented.
Electronic equipment using vacuum tubes is pretty much immune.
Its not the fallout or blast radius, or even the EMP that concerns me that much, rather it is the resulting civil unrest and unraveling of society that would really put this nation into a tailspin. I can’t help but imagine several large cities looking like post Katrina New Orleans. Some of the unrest and rioting would be caused by true fear and worry, but most would be causes by sheer criminal opportunists.
I think the closer we get to the end, we’ll find the threads that bind society together are much more fragile than we think.
Nope. Newt Gingrich had Clinton’s boot prints on his underwear and up his back. Clinton was in very deep trouble until Newt’s incompetence bailed him out.
"Even as the new administration plans to spend trillions on economic bailouts, it has announced plans to reduce funding and downgrade efforts for missile defense."
"The world is different today. Intercontinental range missiles tipped with nuclear weapons in the hands of leaders driven by fanaticism, leaders that support global terrorism, leaders that have made repeated threats that they will seek our annihilation . . . can now at last achieve that dream in a matter of minutes."
"Funding for EMP defense must be a top national priority. To downgrade or halt our missile defense program, which at last is becoming viable after 25 years of research, would be an action of criminal negligence."
A simple, appropriate and important warning...to say the least.
I got news for Newt, the Obamabomb has already struck the US and it has destroyed us for more that any nuclear bomb ever could. Its a sad time for the Good ol’ USA! :(
What in this Op-Ed do you find BS?
Newt a RINO? If you're a conservative, why wouldn't you support Newt? On a spectrum of Conservative vs. Liberal, Newt is clearly on the conservative side. You can disagree on "a" issue, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water. That is a losing political strategy. The left would love to marginalize "every" effective conservative leader.
Win the reins of power first, and then argue policy among yourselves. Anything else is a losing strategy. The left will sew dissent and confusion wherever thay can.
Remember, the enemy is the liberal left, and they must be defeated. Do not attack each other!
A single nuke would wreck anybody’s day.
At least it would clean out my basement.
You missed the juxtaposition with the fourth sentence in my post #51.
That which is absurd is easily dismissed - until it happens.
A tinpot-dictator third-world banana-republic terrorist country is both going nuclear and going orbital. They may very well have nukes, and they have a potentially spacegoing rocket on the launch pad right now.
The motivation of a talking head nee past politician is irrelevant in this context.
The motivation of a man telling you someone is about to shoot you is insignificant in the face of evidence someone is, in fact, rather likely to shoot you.
He doesn't have the nuts to be a leader in tough times.
Kind of irrelevant, but my new MacBook is Aluminum and Glass. :D
Yeah, but your votes are still discounted since Acorn got the entire Dallas Cowboys to vote three times each in like 7 different states.
Ha. With his transparency....who knows?
I only hope if they take us out they
wait til the demon is in his highchair.
1. To start with :
Newt Gingrich: A Single Nuke Could Destroy America
2. “ONE” nuke will destroy a small area,,,
3. 100 + A-Bombs were tested at the Yucca Flats/etc.
Point : 1 weapon will not kill 80,000,000 gun owners,,,
We “ARE” America!!!...;0)
Newt’s reference to a single high altitude detonated nuke has to refer to its EMP effect.
Shutting down all our computer based infrastructure systems and degrading our society back to the Nineteenth Century is the intent. For Pakistan and Iran, this is too easy.
Since today’s Muslims live in the Seventh Century as it is.
EMP is real, folks.
He was clearly referring to EMP.
This... in a time that the Obama admin. ‘stopped using the war on terror” term... http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52T7MH20090330
My, you are beginning to think like Obama.
So, we have to protest that which we disagree with from the democrats.
To accept is to allow them the freedom to rule.
My, you are beginning to think like Obama.
So, we have to protest that which we disagree with from the democrats.
To accept is to allow them the freedom to rule.
I had the opportunity to meet him and talk one on one.
Smart man, very articulate. Very impressive.
I wzs very disgruntled when I saw him with Peolsi on the couch.
I wish he would pick and decide correctly.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.