"Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!"
"Burma!!"
".......Why'd you say Burma?
"I panicked."
Posted on 06/04/2010 8:34:47 AM PDT by markomalley
The Burmese Government is attempting to build nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, according to a military defector who smuggled photographs and documents of secret nuclear equipment out of the isolated dictatorship.
Evidence presented by the former Burmese officer and weapons engineer suggests that the country is still a long way from creating usable nuclear weapons. But the fact that it has even a nascent nuclear programme will cause international alarm at a time when the West is struggling to contain the ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
Jim Webb, the US senator, who in recent months has become an unofficial US envoy to Burma, yesterday cancelled a planned trip to Naypyidaw, the capital, because of concern about the reports of the defector’s testimony on the Norway-based news website, Democratic Voice of Burma. It comes after Kurt Campbell, the US assistant secretary of state, accused the Burmese junta of violating a UN resolution by allegedly buying arms from North Korea.
“It is unclear whether these allegations have substantive merit,” Mr Webb said in a statement. “However … there are now two unresolved matters related to activities of serious concern between these two countries. Until there is further clarification on these matters, I believe it would be unwise and potentially counterproductive for me to visit Burma.”
The information comes from Sai Thein Win, a former major in the Burmese Army, who is compared in the DVB report to Mordechai Vanunu, the whistleblower who was abducted and imprisoned by Israel after leaking secrets of its nuclear programme to The Sunday Times. The materials he provided have been scrutinised by Robert Kelley, a former director of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
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I guess since they heard global warming got debunked and are no longer worried their country is sinking into the ocean, now they’ll turn their attention to - ya know - just building some nukes. All the cool countries have nukes.
Meh, just give every nation a nuke and be done with it....the UN and the IAEA are worthless in preventing nuclear proliferation and will be moreso once an NPT member...IRAN...acquires/builds their nukes.
WTF? Really? I dont think so. Who would they use them against? Their biggest borders are with China and India, both of which could reduce Burma to cinders with 1/10th of their military power.
The only other options are Bangaldesh, and Thailand. The former, well, if somebody nuked them, itd be better for the World, considering its a cesspool of poverty and Islam (A bad combo), and the latter, well, why would they want to nuke thailand? Did some junta leader discover that his last Suki Suki in thailand was done by a boytoy?
I mean it makes sense. If we need one we could just borrow it from one of our friends, right?
Wait, I'm confused...are you talking about our monetary policy?
A peach is pretty
With lots of fuzz.
But man’s no peach
And never wuz.
BURMA SHAVE
A paranoid dictator wants nukes? Whowouldathunkit?
Burma wants to build nukes? Did they kidnap Professor Roy Hinkley from Gilligan’s Island to do the development? I mean, the guy could build a nuclear reactor from palm fronds, coconuts and a few sea shells, so why not?
But Burmese beware: Hinkley is a fraud! That’s right, a fraud! He couldn’t even patch a hole in a motorboat!
"Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic!"
"Burma!!"
".......Why'd you say Burma?
"I panicked."
The Orwellian named State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) is one of the worst regimes on the planet. They have destroyed their once beautiful country. They are engaged in the world’s longest running civil war, fighting against the Karen since 1948. They have destroyed over 3500 villages since 1995. Relocation camps, free fire zones, forced labor, use of human minesweepers, religeous persecution against Christians, and massive exports of meth and opium make this one of the worst regimes on earth.
They want nukes so they can be untouchable like North Korea.
Burma is one weird place. You might hear their leader say something like, “Myanmar must have the finest high tech weapons in Asia. An astrologer told me so!”
"I DOUBLE dares ya!"
Evidence presented by the former Burmese officer and weapons engineer suggests that the country is still a long way from creating usable nuclear weapons. But the fact that it has even a nascent nuclear programme will cause international alarm at a time when the West is struggling to contain the ambitions of Iran and North Korea... "It is unclear whether these allegations have substantive merit," Mr Webb said in a statement....meanwhile, North Korea and Iran continue nuclear weapons and ICBM development, while simultaneously supporting worldwide terrorism, and Zero does nothing.
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