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Brazil VP says country should build nuclear arms
AP via Breitbart ^
| 09/25/09
| Staff
Posted on 09/25/2009 12:28:07 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's vice president says his country should develop nuclear weapons.
Jose Alencar says "a nuclear weapon has great importance" to prevent attacks on Brazil because of its extensive borders and maritime holdings. Alencar tells Brazilian newspapers that Brazil doesn't have a program to develop nuclear weapons, but should.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; latino; southamerica; wmd
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Why not? Obama seems to think that everyone should get their own WMDs.
To: OldDeckHand
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:29:26 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: OldDeckHand
>>Why not? Obama seems to think that everyone should get their own WMDs.
Everyone except America, apparently.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:29:48 PM PDT
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ./base)
To: OldDeckHand
Look on the bright side. Their liquid fueled missiles would be powered with renewable, green ethanol.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:31:24 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Spay and neuter your liberals)
To: OldDeckHand
The only thing worth invading Brazil for are some of the women.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:31:57 PM PDT
by
muleskinner
("You know the Germans always make good stuff')
To: OldDeckHand
this was inevitable once nuclear weapons were created. Eventually they would find their way into those fanatical enough to use them.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:32:19 PM PDT
by
jdub
(A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
To: OldDeckHand
They had a secret program in 1970s. my guess is that it never stopped.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:33:13 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: OldDeckHand
But but but...Obammy just said that nation should not build nuclear weapons. Looks like Brazil just flipped Obammy the bird!
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:34:49 PM PDT
by
Commander X
(Hey Barry, what are you hiding?)
To: OldDeckHand
Wouldn’t lose sleep over Brazil getting nukes myself. It has a relatively advanced economy, a rapidly growing middle class, and an increasingly rational and secular population. You do have the underclass and the drug lords, but don’t think that commandeering nukes to launch at the US would be a priority.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:37:54 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: OldDeckHand
Wouldn’t lose sleep over Brazil getting nukes myself. It has a relatively advanced economy, a rapidly growing middle class, and an increasingly (somewhat) rational and secular population. You do have the underclass and the drug lords, but don’t think that commandeering nukes to launch at the US would be a priority.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:38:05 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Clemenza
You could have said the same thing about Venezuela a few years ago.
To: MediaMole
Looks like O’s speech at UNSC yesterday really did the trick!
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:41:16 PM PDT
by
sand lake bar
(Take that thing off your head and act like an American!)
To: Clemenza
"Wouldnt lose sleep over Brazil getting nukes myself. It has a relatively advanced economy, a rapidly growing middle class, and an increasingly rational and secular population." That "increasingly "rational" and secular population are the underclass and the drug lords.
To: Nathan Zachary
Brazil is a very strange country. On the one hand, you have a rapidly growing middle class of entrepreneurs, skilled laborers, and white collar employees, on the other you still have the 15-20% of the country that is truly poor (and poverty in Brazil is considerably worse than it is here, despite a "welfare state" and socialized medicine, btw). You also have the phenomenon of folks talking and living Right, yet voting left.
Over the past 5 years, there has been a considerable decrease in the % of poor. The problem is that the underclass (which is disproportionately dominated by an ethnicity/race that disproportionately comprises our own underclass) has inculcated values that make it neigh impossible to leave the favelas. In short, while the working poor is becoming lower middle class, the non-working poor are stuck in a rut.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:51:08 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Nathan Zachary
Brazil is a very strange country. On the one hand, you have a rapidly growing middle class of entrepreneurs, skilled laborers, and white collar employees, on the other you still have the 15-20% of the country that is truly poor (and poverty in Brazil is considerably worse than it is here, despite a "welfare state" and socialized medicine, btw). You also have the phenomenon of folks talking and living Right, yet voting left.
Over the past 5 years, there has been a considerable decrease in the % of poor. The problem is that the underclass (which is disproportionately dominated by an ethnicity/race that disproportionately comprises our own underclass) has inculcated values that make it neigh impossible to leave the favelas. In short, while the working poor is becoming lower middle class, the non-working poor are stuck in a rut.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:51:17 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: MediaMole
Brazil has a more diversified economy and less political polarization than Venezuela, which has been a petrostate (with all the associated issues) since the end of WWII. Then again, all it takes is one incompetant president to screw things up and return things to the late 1980s.
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:53:07 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: OldDeckHand
Who is threatening Brazil’s sovereignty?
To: OldDeckHand
I say "why not?" as well.
The Brazilian women are already equipped with thermo-nuclear butts.
What difference will some thermo-nuclear arms make?
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posted on
09/25/2009 12:59:38 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
To: Unam Sanctam
Don't think they have much to fear from the Argies, the Guayanese, or the Paraguayans (except for dope from the latter). This is all about becoming a regional power with an independent foreign policy, expanding its sphere of influence down the line. Due to a lack of cultural or historical ties with its neighbors, however, I don't see Brazil leading a "Latin American block." Its economy is large enough that such a development is irrelevant at this point. This is all about Brazil's "coming out" as an emerging power, per the current leadership.
Keep in mind that Brazil is filled with anti-nuclear peaceniks just like the US and Europe are. Be interesting to see how the larger society views this, however. Brazilians are generally patriotic, but are also anti-militaristic, even though many were just children, or weren't even born during the dictatorship.
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posted on
09/25/2009 1:06:27 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Unam Sanctam
Iran is building nukes and Chavez just struck a deal with them to provide gasoline. I wonder what he gets in return?
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posted on
09/25/2009 2:02:58 PM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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