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Merkel miffed at Barack Obama and David Cameron 'nuclear war game'
Telegraph UK ^ | March 25, 2014 | By Bruno Waterfield, and Peter Dominiczak in The Hague and Nick Squires in Rome

Posted on 03/25/2014 9:51:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

World leaders played an interactive nuclear war game designed to test their responses to a terrorist atomic "dirty bomb" attack that threatened the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

David Cameron joined Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Xi Jinping and other world leaders to play a "nukes on the loose" war game to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack.

The German chancellor grumbled at being asked to play games and take tests with the Prime Minister, US and Chinese presidents around a table with dozens of heads of state at a nuclear summit in The Hague.

Her complaints were overruled because Mr Obama was keen on the idea and in on the surprise.

In the war game, played out by actors in a series of short films, a terrorist attack with an atomic "dirty bomb" takes place in the financial heart of an unnamed but Western metropolis. "It could be the City of London, or Wall Street, Milan or anywhere", summit leaders were told.

As the scenario unfolded, it emerged that the terrorists are from an unidentified global terror network and they have stolen nuclear material from an unidentified country that had poorly secured its radiological and nuclear stockpiles.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; brunowaterfield; cameron; davidcameron; doomsday; doomsdaycult; germany; loosenuke; merkel; nicksquires; nuclearwargame; obamacheated; obamaeuropetrip; obamatrip; opbama; peterdominiczak; putin; russia; ukraine; unitedkingdom; viktoryanukovich; wargames; yuliatymoshenko
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To: Jim Robinson

Who was behind the imaginary plot, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants again?


21 posted on 03/25/2014 10:08:24 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: McGruff

Obama: Whoops, did I do that?

It’s not my fault, it must be because of Global Warming, The Republicans, George Bush, The NRA, The Christens or Racism.


22 posted on 03/25/2014 10:09:41 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: bigbob

Best post of the day, month and possibly year.


23 posted on 03/25/2014 10:09:49 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Good grief


24 posted on 03/25/2014 10:10:13 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: Jim Robinson
So, Bammy abandoned his lead from the rear strategy and put his foot down to make everyone play a video game?

God help us all.

25 posted on 03/25/2014 10:10:59 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Jim Robinson

Merkel miffed at Urkel.


26 posted on 03/25/2014 10:12:00 AM PDT by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: colorado tanker

Smartest man in the room.../s


27 posted on 03/25/2014 10:12:52 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Walmartian
Merkel miffed at Urkel.

Merkel irked at Urkel.

28 posted on 03/25/2014 10:12:58 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: TexasCajun

“Obama and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands sharing a light moment ... “

Queen Maxima: “That John Hamm—`Don Draper’ on `Madmen’—he is `hunky’, no?”
Obama: “Yeah! You got that right, girlfriend! Mmmm mmm mmmmmm!”


29 posted on 03/25/2014 10:14:03 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Walmartian

"Did I do that?"

30 posted on 03/25/2014 10:14:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition
As the scenario unfolded, it emerged that the terrorists are from an unidentified global terror network and they have stolen nuclear material from an unidentified country that had poorly secured its radiological and nuclear stockpiles.


31 posted on 03/25/2014 10:20:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition

CNN’s immediate response was that there is no evidence terrorism was involved.


32 posted on 03/25/2014 10:20:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Let me get this straight: The point of the “game” was to learn the spontaneous reactions of various world leaders to a nuclear attack, but Obastard was “in on the surprise?”

So, IOW, he cheated.


33 posted on 03/25/2014 10:23:01 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: colorado tanker

Did the videogame crash as the Obamacase Hussien’s Un-Affordable Care site did???


34 posted on 03/25/2014 10:23:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Portcall24

This;
‘The first, absolutely first, rule is never directly involve the head of state. He or she can watch but should not become directly involved. When one does become involved it lets an audience see how you think and what you would do”

is such common sense but I wouldn’t have thought of it.
However one would hope the so called leader of your country would be smart enough to think of it

thank you for pointing this out


35 posted on 03/25/2014 10:25:07 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Cyber Liberty
Let me get this straight: The point of the “game” was to learn the spontaneous reactions of various world leaders to a nuclear attack, but Obastard was “in on the surprise?” So, IOW, he cheated.

"You made a BINGO!"


36 posted on 03/25/2014 10:25:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: TexasCajun
Ahhhh, now we find out why Obama sent Mooch & the kids off to China:

Was Reggie Love on the bus ? :-)

Speaking of Reggie Love, if you type his name up on Google, this is what appears in the right hand side :

Reggie Love

Body man

Reginald L. Love served as the special assistant and personal aide, commonly referred to as body man for taking care of the president's needs, to United States President Barack Obama. Wikipedia

Born: June 21, 1981 (age 32)

Party: Democratic Party

Position: Wide receiver

It is interesting to note, that nowhere does it mention that he plays football :-) LOL

37 posted on 03/25/2014 10:26:23 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself- Mark Twain)
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To: Jim Robinson

What idiot’s idea was this? Are these people so lacking in any amount of backbone, that nobody said, “This is stupid. Where are the grown ups?”, and just left?


38 posted on 03/25/2014 10:27:32 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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To: McGruff
Reminds me of my favorite old arcade games, Missile Command:

Right before a horde of incoming MIRVs overwhelms your defenses.

39 posted on 03/25/2014 10:29:03 AM PDT by PLMerite
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To: Jim Robinson

Soooo.... Obama forced everyone to play a surprise game that he already had the answers to and he won. Cuz he’s s’smart.

He’s like the kid at the birthday party that everybody hates.

Nice.


40 posted on 03/25/2014 10:37:39 AM PDT by keat
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