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Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
3/15/05

Posted on 03/15/2005 2:33:20 AM PST by Victoria Gruoppe

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Hey! Sorry for posting this new thread. I am not sure, maybe there is already a thread on the problem I’d like to discuss now. Still I want to say something else on the issue. I am sure you all know it is much told and discussed over the CTBT - the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty - and the role of America in it. The CTBT was designed to prevent testing of nuclear weapons and hence reduce the chance of an arms race. I am an American patriot and I believe that the US Senate did absolutely right in October 13, 1999, when decided not to ratify the CTBT. You may say whatever you want, I will always stand for this decision. The world is no more a safe place. There is the looming threat of China and still of Russia due to their nuclear capabilities (along with Pakistan and India). We have to protect ourselves and our Motherland. That is why it would be absolutely correct of this state not to ratify the Treaty and go on with nuclear researches so that we could get more and more powerful nuclear weapons. Still, it is not all I wanted to say. The problem is we got to think about nuclear security INSIDE the country. No secret, the nuclear facilities are guarded. Still I do not think they are guarded the way they should be. The problem is that the security of nuclear sites is run by private protection agencies where the staff recruitment leaves much to be desired. Some security guards are Islamite by religion, many others have poor physical training (that makes them an easy target for attacks of terrorists or other criminals). what is more, the guards at nuclear sites often fall asleep when at watch. It is clear that such carelessness of some responsible persons may lead to a terrible catastrophe thousand times more deadly than the 9/11. As the facts say, Islamic terrorists can easily enter the territory of the U.S. and execute dozens of local atomic explosions at nuclear sites. I think you know what it was like in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It makes me faint when I start thinking of it. By the way, once I came across a map of America at one of Arabic web-sites where all American nuclear facilities were mapped. Of course, I am no expert and cannot say whether it is true or false but the map looked quite credible. The only thing I feel certain about is that they positively harbor plans to revenge for the war in Iraq and others. And that threatens me.


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To: MeekOneGOP

...morning Meek! ;-) Think we'll run another one off tonight? I sorta hope not to tell you the truth. :-)


41 posted on 03/15/2005 9:30:50 AM PST by hiredhand (Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
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To: Victoria Gruoppe
Welcome to FR! Have you met my kitty?


42 posted on 03/15/2005 9:32:28 AM PST by Hi Heels (Now Andy, I ain't got time for them trivial trivialities...Barney Fife)
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To: hiredhand
Well, ya never know. :^)

43 posted on 03/15/2005 9:35:11 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Well, ya never know. :^)

Yeah...what is with people we ask for clarification from, or just a simple answer....and get silence, double talk, or riddles?! Then we get tagged as being bad because we won't take bad answers.

The one who started this thread though has gone strangely silent. Hmmmm.... :-)
44 posted on 03/15/2005 9:37:55 AM PST by hiredhand (Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
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To: Victoria Gruoppe
Welcome to Free Republic.com...

come out come out wherever you are...
45 posted on 03/15/2005 9:42:48 AM PST by mysto ("I am ZOT proof" --- famous last words of a troll.)
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To: Zacs Mom
This is great, and I will be borrowing it.!

... When something is fixin' to bite you on the butt!

46 posted on 03/15/2005 9:57:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: Grampa Dave; Zacs Mom

hahhhaaa... yep, she's pretty talented.


47 posted on 03/15/2005 10:17:18 AM PST by Hi Heels (Now Andy, I ain't got time for them trivial trivialities...Barney Fife)
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To: Victoria Gruoppe

Beware the Ides of March, the scent of ozone, and the wrath of the Viking Kitties.


48 posted on 03/15/2005 10:19:54 AM PST by Laura Earl
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To: hiredhand
..... Then we get tagged as being bad because we won't take bad answers.

Yep.

The one who started this thread though has gone strangely silent. Hmmmm.... :-)

Classic post and run Troll behavior.


49 posted on 03/15/2005 10:22:22 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Victoria Gruoppe; MeekOneGOP

50 posted on 03/15/2005 10:28:31 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Hi Heels; Grampa Dave

Ah ~ praise from the master!!! I am flattered indeed!!

Grampa Dave ~ have fun with it! ;^)


51 posted on 03/15/2005 10:30:23 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

A whole lot of us who do things in the wild areas often find big cat tracks over our incoming tracks when we leave an area.

When that happens, I immediately avoid that area during twilight or after the sun goes down.


52 posted on 03/15/2005 10:38:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Cats are well known for being sneaky and I always sort of figured the bigger the cat the bigger the sneak! lol

I've done a lot of backpacking and camping in really remote wilderness areas throughout the western states and although I've never encounter a big cat in the daylight I heard one screaming very close to my tent one night and it scared the crap out of me. The screams were like nothing I'd ever heard before or since (thankfully)!

I was camped very high up in the mountains and had seen mountains with kids on the slopes all around me during the day. I was fairly certain that big cat was hunting the kids but, with the cat prowling so close, I felt truly vulnerable none the less. I saw tracks at the edge of the clearing in the morning and left the area that day - two days earlier than had been planned.
53 posted on 03/15/2005 10:52:14 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom
LOL!

54 posted on 03/15/2005 11:13:22 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Arrowhead1952


55 posted on 03/15/2005 11:30:18 AM PST by Lady Jag (Honor and dignity)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; Conspiracy Guy; NYC GOP Chick; ...

I suspect English as a second language. Maybe a third.


56 posted on 03/15/2005 11:33:52 AM PST by shibumi (You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Let's see if it falls for this!

57 posted on 03/15/2005 11:34:37 AM PST by Lady Jag (Honor and dignity)
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To: MeekOneGOP

"Classic post and run Troll behavior"


We've got to boobytrap that doorbell!


58 posted on 03/15/2005 11:36:10 AM PST by shibumi (You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly.)
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To: Lady Jag

LOL!!! Funny one!!!!


59 posted on 03/15/2005 11:41:06 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (TV News and the MSM - - - ROTFLMAO)
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To: Arrowhead1952
LOL!!! Funny one!!!!

Thank you, I come from a supportive home.



60 posted on 03/15/2005 11:48:58 AM PST by Lady Jag (Honor and dignity)
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