[FairOpinion]

"Who do we nuke if it happens?"

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/10/111302.shtml

Lunev Advised Bush on Drawing Up Nuclear Plans
Christopher Ruddy
Monday, March 11, 2002
The recent "leak" of a classified Pentagon report that the U.S. military recently has drawn up plans to use nuclear weapons against seven nations was no accident.

The Pentagon report identifies China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria as nuclear targets, and directs military planners to begin preparing nuclear strike plans in case of a nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attack on the U.S. or "in the event of surprising military developments."

Lunev then gave advice that has now been heeded by the Bush administration: "My suggestion is that the U.S. must warn rogue states, i.e., Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya, that if these groups use a weapon of mass destruction on an American city, the U.S. military will not do any investigations, there will be no delay – the U.S. will use similar weapons on their population centers and military targets."



U.S. officials were quick to confirm the report, which no doubt sent a serious signal to rogue states about what will happen if the U.S.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ya know, the way Rush was talking the other day about how if it happens again we would be amazed at the projection of American power, I immediately thought of immediate response attacks on N. Korea, Iran, Syria, etc. Maybe Rush was just blustering in hyperbole, maybe he is too out of the loop. But OTOH, it is quite possible that he has enough connections high enough up to have been given an inkling of what some of our response strategies might be if a WMD terrorist attack did take place.

Rush never went into details, but what he was hinting at was clearly massive.

[Pubbie]

If we're ready to use the H-Bomb on Syria and Iran, how come we can't ban all Flights from Islamic Nations?

Bush ought to make this MAD policy very public - if we get hit again then we use nukes on Iran and Syria.