Posted on 12/22/2005 9:44:56 AM PST by SirLinksalot
of course if you want an even more "mainstream" source, you can read this piece of news from CBS :
Man Honored For Averting Nuke War
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/world/main618901.shtml
So, what do we have ? A right wing news source, a more conservative mainstream news source and a liberal news source actually AGREEING on history.
This gives the editorial credibility IMHO.
Another one :
Soviet officer honored for averting nuclear war
Colonel ignored mistaken alarm signaling U.S. missile attack
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5031977/
Not necessarily the truth still... Anyone can post anything to Wikipedia without basis in fact.
Then again that may not be true because I read that on another Web site that was complaining because of falsities posted in WIKIPEDIA. That will leave it to individuals to either believe or not.
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Me too.
And we are supposed to believe this because...?
I always loved this story. Thanks for posting it!
meant to ping you above...
Interesting story....my favorite part is where Jim Lutz asks us to send a check to his ministries in the amount of whatever our life is worth.
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And we are supposed to believe this because...?
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Because it has been reported and re-reported by papers. articles and columns that span the entire political spectrum.
He saved America, he will never get it.
Your post was the only one that made reading the thread worthwhile.
Then he made the decision that saved the world. Summoning up his firmest voice, he called his Kremlin liaison and said it was a false alarm. But today he admits, "I wasn't 100 percent sure. Not even close to 100 percent."So the world slept on.
Months later, it was determined that sunlight reflecting off clouds in Montana had caused a faulty satellite computer assembly to report a missile launch flash. But by that time, Petrov's excellent military career had been sidetracked. He wasn't fired, but he was transferred and never got any medals or recognition. When his wife was found to have a brain tumor in 1993, he retired to take care of her. When she died, he borrowed money to give her a funeral.
So he saved the world by not destroying the world. I'll remember all the people who's lives I saved this year because I didn't hit them with my car when they walked in front...
It was a FAULTY system in the first place. Launching the missiles would have been an attack, not a response. Even if they were launched under faulty data.
And as it was my birthday, I do know where I was (but some of the details are fuzzier than testimony from Hillary Clinton).
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It's the "Please send cash to P.O.Box #" bit that kinda gives it away at the end!
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It's the "Please send cash to P.O.Box #" bit that kinda gives it away at the end!
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Are you saying that asking for a donation on behalf of someone IN AND OF ITSELF shows an ulterior motive ?
Isn't it even remotely possible that the donation will LEGITIMATELY go to its intended recipient ?
I know we should be cautious with our money but checking the legitimacy of the solicitation is part of the process of being cautious (unless of course you don't care a whit about Colonel Petrov, which makes the point moot ).
That is the one lesson we can learn from Wargames.
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