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To: Publius
That's a VERY GOOD point. Rail lines and ports would sure make it easier for terrorists to move portable nuclear deviced into position. It's impossible to check every single rail car and every single ship coming into every port in the country. The 9-11 Commission and Democrats always throw that at the GOP but never seem to mention the part about the TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars it would cost and the impossible logistics it would take to do it. Funny how the Democrats always say what they think should be done, but never identify HOW to do it. So convenient. :) I think anti-gravity tech should be developed to make it cheaper, easier and quicker to move freight and make the internal combustion engine obsolete, but that doesn't mean it can be done or that I know how to do it or pay for it. That's the Democrats today.

But I digress. The border, and ports are clearly the way that this kind of attack could be done in reality. The Soviets have admitted that a dozen or more portable briefcase nukes are "missing" and unaccounted for. They weigh near or more 100 pounds, so they're more like suitcases not briefcases, but it wouldn't be hard to getthose into different vehicles, with clean cut looking terrorists driving them in teams, one device per vehicle, out in the boonies somewhere, each team with a predetermined location to go to in each target city, and a predetermined time to get there, and a predetermined time to set the devices off, compensating for time zones. And ports would make this even easier, using small private cabin type cruisers, which no one really checks if they don't look suspicious, and it wouldn't be hard for people to get such boats and their legal papers. This is very doable and very real and quite scary. I don't know what scares me more; the reality that Islamo-Fascists COULD do this, and it is not logistically impossible if done right, which wouldn't take a genius level of intelligence to pull off, or if it scares me more that there is an apparent genetic level of retardation among some Americans who think such an attack isn't possible, or don't really worry about it. As 9-11 proved to be, an Islamo-fascist terrorist nuclear strike on America is a matter of WHEN, not IF. That's my opinion, and I hope I'm wrong but I don't believe I am. It only takes ONE nuke detonated in a large U.S. city, a port probably, to kill millions of Americans, and change the United States for many decades at best, and cause the economy to drop to its knees. People don't seem to understand the repercussions of this if it happened. It would make 9-11 look like a fart in a tornado.

105 posted on 10/02/2006 10:43:09 AM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (Liberty must be defended, so the children of those who fell, can understand its value. Never forget.)
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To: TexasPatriot8

You've heard of the "American Hiroshima"?

My brother in law (lives in San Diego) just visited us and told us all about it and how he listens to Michael Savage and I guess he goes on and on about it and the fear of it happening during Ramadan (which would be about now, right?).

Anyhew, I'm not too worried because those missing suitcases would have to be maintained on a regular basis and who's to say the terrorists had the manpower, funding or ability to maintain them as needed, let alone if all the parts still work. I could be wrong.

However, my BIL said they actually got notices from their local/state gov't about stocking supplies and preparing for nuclear attack. That's kinda scary.


130 posted on 10/04/2006 4:50:40 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I love the smell of strategery in the morning...)
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