Hard to believe, I know.
Posted on 09/15/2016 3:41:42 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Hard to believe, I know.
Powell continue to be Dickin’ the Country....
Powell continues to be Dickin’ the Country from his Home....
I think that that have WAY more than 200. 200 Israeli nukes is the rough equivalent of 11 million illegals here - a very old, very rough figure that people can accept without too many questions.
Even Seymour Hersch said about 25 years ago that Israel had more, and Mordecai Vanunu (if you believe him) stated “about 400.”
Keep in mind that Israel has always viewed the Soviet Union/Russia as its prime enemy, since it arms and backs Israel’s neighbors. You aren’t going to deter the Arabs AND the Soviets with a couple dozen weapons, you need AT LEAST a couple hundred, so that at least 1/4 get through. That will give you the deterrence that you need to survive in Israel’s position.
I also remember a report by Dr. Martin Abend, a NY-area journalist (back when there was such a thing), around 1974 or 1975, in which he said that Israel had nukes targeted on EVERY major Arab city, some on the Soviets, and special nukes with Cobalt casings for the Saudi and Gulf States’ oil fields. Radioactive Cobalt has an exceptionally long half-life, so the goal was CLEARLY to render those fields unusable for a long time - which would throw the world into an instant depression that would likely lead to WW3...the unstated object being to force the US and the West to back Israel enough to not let it be destroyed. FYI, Abend was regularly used by the Israelis to release information that its diplomats couldn’t.
I’m betting that at this point, Israel also has weapons targeted, or at least reserved for, China and North Korea. Israel may lose millions in a war with many nations, but it won’t be for free.
That’s MAD...
Not so much that it’s Powell’s, is the subjects and everyone else in the conversations.
Gotta work with the secrets you can hack.
Two hundred is the number I’ve heard tossed around for years.
This will NOT go over well with the Israelis.
Powell’s political future is over.
Very interesting. I considered for a second the Russian threat, but thought wrongly that Russia wanted the bigger fish, us.
I dont know about now, but back in USSR days, they wanted everything.
Russian newspapers are rooting for Trump. This cant be done without Vlad’s approval.
Does he think the west is instigating in eastern europe?
Or does he think he can get away with stuff under Trump? That would be a mistake.
Anyway, an exchange among JUST Israel, the ME and Russia of nukes would pretty much poison a large swath of the world. or maybe not. i dont know :)
Colin Powell is a political opportunist and a dangerous ego. If he is smarter than everyone else why did he get his emails hacked ?
The old line was, nuke them until they glow, then shoot them in the dark!
So Colon Bowel, America’s lower G.I. KNOWS confidential email.
And he blew it. He gave a secret away of one of our most endangered allies on the planet.
Court martial ?
Well, bounce the rubble was part of LeMay’s mindset, but I don’t think even he would have gone so far as to put 200 nukes on one target.
200?
Let’s see....
Mecca
Medina
Tehran
Riyhad
Qum
Damascus
Amman
Benghazi
Tripoli
Kandahar
Kabul
Baghdad
Kirkuk
Tikrit
More than enough.
Question for all.
Do Cabinet members get a retirement package like Congress, salary and med. for life?
Or is Colon Bowell back to his General’s retirement deal?
” they have numerous neutron devices that they would more likely classify as tactical’s instead of nukes.”
If TSHTF and there is a unified Suni/Shia attack on Israel those will be handed out like candy.
I guess it doesn’t matter if the “confidential” info is already known by 99 percent of the world.
It is still marked “confidential” and he was wrong. I stand corrected.
There’s no possible reason to put more than a smallish number on one target, and if they want to deter Iran (if the crazy Mullahs can even be deterred) then Iran has to know that every bit of Islamic life in Iran will be exterminated if the Mullahs go after Israel. They have to target locations all over Iran.
If he mentioned this in an email he should be buried next to Hillary under Leavenworth.
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