November 2008: America is nuked

WND ^ | February 2, 2007 | Kevin McCullough's

[keats5]

Only two weeks after the elections in November of 2008, the United States of America, a nation of former greatness, lay in absolute desolate ruin. Within the previous 72 hours a series of eight successive, delayed nuclear devices had been detonated. Indescribably large portions of metro Washington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and two thirds of the island of Manhattan have been turned into steaming craters. Millions are dead. President George W. Bush is in intensive care; two-thirds of the Cabinet, including the vice president, are missing or dead.

President-elect Barack Obama faces the most enormous challenge of any incoming president in the history of the nation.

But why?

How did it happen?

Turn back the clock to the week of Feb. 5, 2007. With a courageous handful of dissenting votes against the measures, the two houses of Congress purposefully ignore the pleas of Gen. David Petraeus and both pass non-binding resolutions that condemn the president's call for victory. One comes from the Democratic controlled House condemning the president, his plan and by implications the troops, and the other from a U.S. Senate that ceases to even feign any faint resemblance of standing for victory.

Most disappointing in the entire sick, pathetic process are the cowardly actions of those who refuse to answer even simple questions on talk-radio shows. Names like Boehner, Cantor, Warner and McCain take actions, evade questions, and sponsor resolutions that then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates confirms will embolden the enemy. It matters not that at 6 p.m. Eastern time across America, Hewitt, Levin, Gibson and Savage tried daily to remind us all of what would come.

As a nation our leaders had taken us from the shadows of Churchill to the defeat of Chamberlain. And what's worse is we had let them.

Even the then "new media" known as the blogosphere rallied tens of thousands of signatures and bloggers to speak back to those in power, only to be evaded, shut down and ignored.

From those resolutions the remaining remnants of Americans who knew in their hearts the importance of victory over the terrorist movement of Islamo-fascism begin to resign themselves to the reality that the maniacal and dangerous voices from the left had achieved full victory. Even Howard Dean emerged from his political cave long enough to gloat and offer comment.

As in the Vietnam conflict a generation previous, neither the United States military nor her allies had lost a single battle on the field of war. Yet her withdrawal from the area begins a rapid progression into absolute civil strife and chaos.

Iran, long on the very publicized trail to a nuclear weapon of her own, reinforces the Shia majority population in what was Iraq. Feeling threatened and under-matched to Tehran's superior strategy and numbers, al-Qaida seeks state-sponsored help for the Sunni population. Wicked Shia death-squad strikes are answered with large scale Shia losses from Sunni IEDs. The Kurds are annihilated by a second set of Hezbollah and Iranian forces, and Tehran seizes the oil wealth of northern Iraq. Eventually, Iraq all but disappears, and only an imaginary line now divides the Sunni controlled south and the Iranian controlled north.

For a brief while, Americans forget about war. Soldiers return home and go back to families, children and jobs. During the main push of the 2008 election cycle, pro-war-on-terror candidates begin to be scorned so badly on the campaign trail, most of them drop out by mid-May.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle it out to the end. But in the end, the Kennedy-styled message of Obama secures enough states to guarantee the nomination. In a gesture of unspeakable generosity, particularly after many of the things she has said about him on the trail, Obama invites Clinton to accept her place as his vice president. The convention rocks with excitement and causes the already shaky ticket for the GOP to simply fall apart.

On Election Day, Obama carries 39 states including the previously unthinkable Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama.

The nation prepares for another peaceful transition of power, one of the truly remarkable footnotes of American-style democracy. Even then, perhaps especially then, people prepare for Thanksgiving.

On the Monday before the American holiday, Iran finally fulfills one of its long intentioned plans. At roughly 3 a.m. local time military jets drop a small payload of conventional bombs onto the northern Israeli town of Tel Aviv. By 6 a.m. local time the story is on the front pages but also on every cable television channel across the world. At roughly 6:15 a.m., with the sun still not risen, television crews in Tel Aviv capture what appear to be streaking lights headed south in the sky. Moments later above Jerusalem and viewable from as far away as Tel Aviv, a bright light followed by a large mushroom cloud – it is pay dirt for the North Korean long-range missile and the Iranian developed nuclear payload.

In order that they may share the oil revenue in the name of serving Allah, the world does not know that key Sunni leaders along with current al-Qaida leadership had long since helped sustain an enforced truce with Iran along the imaginary line in former Iraq. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces on Iranian television, which is in turn shortly relayed throughout the world, that Allah has been victorious over the Zionists.

Immediately and through every means available a massive crush of people leaving Israel hits anywhere they can land in North America – New York, Chicago, Mexico City, Miami and Dallas. Simultaneously, because the Congress had decided to de-fund the southern border fence, there is noted increase in the number of border crossings by people attempting to get into the United States.

With them are the final two persons needed to activate the final two portable nuclear devices in American cities.

President Bush, out of loyalty and love for our best allies, Israel, orders jet strikes on Tehran. Unfortunately, the damage done is not able to penetrate deep enough underground to disturb Iran's operational hub.

Beginning at 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning, al-Qaida agents incinerate historic Washington, D.C., downtown Manhattan is leveled, and the Sears Tower in Chicago sprays bits of glass as far as DuPage County.

Will we then be a nation UNITED toward victory?

Will it even matter?

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[Jezebelle]

None of the above. It's simply an academic discussion about politics and numbers. Nobody here wants to see any city attacked.

[Oct1967]

what a a stupid article:

Obama winning Mississippi and 8 cities being nuked...someone has too much time on their hands

[Landru]

"None of the above. It's simply an academic discussion about politics and numbers. Nobody here wants to see any city attacked."

DIDN'T mean to imply it did (let alone accuse you personally of anything), I assure you was not my intention.
Was strictly rhetorical.
Truth is though your (& the others) comments reflected those of my own, and, I had to pause for a moment & wonder.

I do feel it's significant in & of itself though what it means exactly, I know-not.

Speaking for myself & after more thought I'd prefer not to know.

...might just be the shape of things to come. ;^)

[Fierce Allegiance]

I don't need apologies. :)

[Wallace T.]

Based on Iran's potential nuclear capacity in the foreseeable future, I would agree. However, behind radical Islam are two old foes of the United States and the Western democracies: Russia and China. Remember that there has been a decades old connection between secular Arab nationalism, such as the Ba'athist movement out of which Sadaam Hussein, the Assads of Syria, and Gamel Nasser of Egypt arose. Since the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, there has been a rapprochement between the old Communist states and radical Islam. The worldview of radical Islam was heavily influenced by the "Judeo Masonic" conspiracy theory that arose over a century ago in Europe and formed a major part of Nazi ideology. Adherents to that theory held that both the capitalist West and the Soviet Union were under the control of wealthy Jews and their allies in the Masonic lodges. With the fall of the USSR and the post-Berlin Wall dominance of the United States, that theory was obviously invalid. Thus, the Chinese, who would obviously have no Jewish influence, and the Russians under Putin, who "made his bones" attacking wealthy Jewish businessmen, would now appear a co-belligerent to the radical mullahs.

Behind the radicals in the Islamic world stand Russia and China, which have been aiding the Iranian nuclear program and were Sadaam's closest allies. No attack as described in this story could take place without their help. Crippling the United States through a nuclear strike that would foment a left-right war, or a war between Yankee-land and the West Coast against the South and Mid-America would be a master stroke, especially if they could pin the blame on the Arab world. How much intervention could the U.S. engage in if Ted Nugent types were fighting black Muslims and gangbangers in the Great Lakes states or the heirs of Barry Goldwater and Sam Houston were taking on the Raza Unida and Atzlan types in the Southwest? The road could be cleared for the Russians and the Chinese to blackmail Europe, India, and Japan and to reestablish colonial empires in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

[truth_seeker]

Which Republican candidate was defeated by Obama?

What is the profile of voters that stayed home?

[volunbeer]

""The response from our submarines would leave the entire mideast a smoking pile of radioactive ashes.""

While I agree with your tactical assessment one cannot help but wonder if Obama would give the order. Has there been any conflict he approved of?

[radiohead]

If they nuked some of those areas, the 'Rats would be permanently nuked from winning office for the next 500 years.

This is a sobering piece. Nonetheless, the immature child in me is laughing like an idiot at your comment. I see you're one of those 'There's always a silver lining' people, huh?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, me always the optimist.

[volunbeer]

"Nothing in this fiction is remotely realistic."

I agree it is highly improbable. It's the same type of thought I had when visiting Manhattan and looking out from the observation deck of the twin towers prior to 9/11.

"What if?" is a fair question when determining who sits in the white house.

One could argue it is statistically more likely to see an inexperienced senator with muslim heritage and a firm anti-war stance sit in the oval office.

;)

[fieldmarshaldj]

"While I agree with your tactical assessment one cannot help but wonder if Obama would give the order. Has there been any conflict he approved of?"

Just tell him they're unborn fetuses he's attacking, he won't hesistate to kill those.

[Mr J]

"do not think the military would be obedient to the orders of the civilian government."

I think that's the only real guarantee of a counterstrike. Even under a doomsday scenario with nukes going off all over the country, one can imagine cowardly pols genuflecting before the altar of political correctness as they reush to the nearest camera crew to intone "Islam is a religion of peace."

[DarthVader]

He or any president wouldn't have much of a choice.

[Mr J]

America should be openly testing nuclear weapons in the Middle East right now, to clearly demonstrate the consqeuences of an attack on the homeland.

[Rembrandt]

Dear Zeroisanumber,

You are aptly screen named.
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"$10/gallon oil wouldn't matter because the economy would already have totally collapsed. Total damage to the economy from 9/11 was roughly $8 trillion. Any strike like this would run into the hundreds of trillions, and pretty much finish us as a nation."
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You're largely right with your comment since $10/gallon of oil equates to about $550 per barrel of oil vs. the current $50 or so, an eleven fold increase. I suspect that would indeed create havoc.

BUT, I disagree that an increase in oil prices would "finish" this country. Oil is a fungible product; it doesn't just affect us, it affects all the countries in the world. We'll survive because we have greater internal strength than most of the others, in spite of the Dhimmicrats.

[Scarchin]

My thoughts exactly.

[going hot]

No money to pay the crews

At that point I don't think they would be doing what they do, for the money.

[Cheburashka]

At that point I don't think they would be doing what they do, for the money.
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They still have families, most of whom like to eat and wear clothes, that sort of thing.

Fuel for planes and ships costs money, as well as things that go "BOOM" when you toss them at the bad guys.

When the bag guys are killing us in our own cities, don't expect the economy to be unaffected. Draw the proper conclusions from that fact. Don't let anything like this scenario happen.

[going hot]

in response to the scenario originally sketched out, as unlikely as that may me, I will reiterate, those that would still be in the fight would probably be 100% in the fight because of the fight, not for the pay, weekly or otherwise.

This would include the gas, the oil, the tires, heck, even the paint on the craft, air or sea. THAT would then be hanging entirely on their performance at thier respective stations, where ever that would be, either on some Boomer in the the ocean, or on a street corner downtown USA. And you can bet that there would be people standing in line to take their place, again, not for the money.

[B-Chan]

I realize you mean well, but it's a grave disservice to those who died to keep Spain free of communism to mention the honorable name of Gen. Francisco Franco — a patriot who saved his country — alongside that of the contemptible regicide Oliver Cromwell.