Posted on 10/28/2006 9:38:13 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
HAROLD Ford, a handsome 36-year-old from Tennessee, has become one of the sensations of the mid-term elections in the US and a reason why Democrats are a good chance of winning back control of the US Congress for the first time in 12 years.
But if Mr Ford, already a US congressman, wins his bid to become a more powerful senator, Australia had better watch out.
Because according to Mr Ford, Australia has an interest in nuclear weapons and is part of the broader nuclear threat to the US.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
What? Is this true?
Note to Ford:
Way to go on insulting close allies, a$$hat.
He meant "Austria."
This is series (not)!
Although Australia ranks clearly among Red America's closest allies, Blue America derides with the same vituperation that Red America reserves for France.
Let's try that again. To Republicans, Australia is an exceptional ally and France is a joke. To Democrats, France is the ultimate source of all moral authority and the superpower of the world, and Australia is a pricking pain in the rear end.
And was prolly thinkin about the Governator of CA... Ahnoiled Schwartzenborrowspender!!!
Very clever, Mr Ford.
Even the idea of nuclear power stations is controversial in Australia. Nuclear weapons, in the absence of a clear threat requiring them, would be virtually impossible politically.
Secondly, if Australia did decide to develop nuclear weapons, they would not be any sort of threat to the US. Perhaps we'd build a dozen. Perhaps at the extreme, we'd build one hundred or so.
The US has thousands - so even if Australia was a nuclear power, the use of nuclear weapons against the United States would be an act of national suicide. Australia has less than a dozen major urban centres. Therefore less than a dozen warheads could just about wipe us out. Whereas hitting America's twelve largest cities - though disastrous in terms of loss of life - would still leave a very powerful nation intact.
We would not be a threat.
Thirdly, if Australia really did decide we needed an independent nuclear deterrent and international conditions really required us to have one, the most likely way we would get one is to ask the US for assistance. It'd be a lot easier than building our own - we could do that, I have no doubt, if we had to (South Africa did) - but it'd be much easier to get US help. So the US would know exactly what was going on at all times.
Ping to the Austrian nukerman in CA's Crapitol!!!
< /totally unnecessary sarc >
I think that Ford is showing signs of desperation and stress. This sort of public foolishness is not typical of him.
AND...all those pouches!
This is astonishing.
The man is coming undone!!! Snapped, I tell ya!!! Can't stand the heat!!! His brane has evaporated!!! (shouldn't that be "brain?") Yes, but I'm Ford fatigued!!!
Indeed, who knows just what evil things all those diggers are hiding in their pouches!
Hey, I'm on my tenth beer of the day and I can still spell properly. >:(
Wow...if crashing Corker's press conference wasn't bad enough...
If I didn't want him to lose so bad, I'd feel sorry for him. What an embarassing gaffe.
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