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DONALD TRUMP OPEN TO NUCLEAR RETALIATION AFTER BRUSSELS ATTACK
CBS News ^ | March 24, 2016 | Reena Flores

Posted on 03/24/2016 2:15:41 PM PDT by Steelfish

DONALD TRUMP OPEN TO NUCLEAR RETALIATION AFTER BRUSSELS ATTACK

Reena Flores CBS News March 24, 2016 Donald Trump is not ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in the U.S. fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to an interview with the GOP front-runner that aired on Bloomberg TV Wednesday.

Asked if he would consider nuclear retaliation after this week's terror attacks in Brussels, Trump responded: "Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt -- it wasn't going -- I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it."

"The fact is that we need unpredictability," Trump said of his openness to using nuclear weapons. "When you ask a question like that, it's a very - it is a very sad thing to have to answer it because the enemy is watching and I have a very good chance of winning. I frankly don't want the enemy to know how I'm thinking. But with that being said, I don't rule out anything."

When pressed on whether he would have utilized America's nuclear capabilities after September 11, Trump said that he would only have used it as a "last resort."

During his interview, Trump emphasized that terrorists "are winning" and "we don't do anything about it."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: PA Engineer
What about banners?!

kidding

61 posted on 03/24/2016 2:35:03 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; Mr. K
If Mecca is gone, we have nothing to hold over their heads. Nuke Medina.

I would use the LeMay strategy concerning Japan in WWII as a guide. You save Mecca for last, Medina being the penultimate target. Begin with other holy cities: Qom, Sana'a, then the shrines at Najaf and Karbala, and then the al-Aqsa. The idea is to up the ante with each demolition, always saying with each demolition which one is next when the next attack occurs.

This only works if the military bases are also destroyed, so that there won't be counterstrikes, of course, just as we did with the Japanese.

62 posted on 03/24/2016 2:35:51 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Also the fallout problem with actual nukes remains. They have to be worth a desperation move that would pollute a large segment of the world with radioactivity.”

You’re at least 40 years behind the times and spouting nonsense that even the Left who use it know not to be true.


63 posted on 03/24/2016 2:36:09 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: Mr. K

calling barry goldwater...it easter and time to listen to and prepare for another “cruz-a-fiction” this time to Trump....cruz-a-fiction is a real POS and so are the media establishment enabling activities


64 posted on 03/24/2016 2:36:12 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: Steelfish

Nuke Mecca, Medina, and Qom and Muslims are reset back to 622 AD. Kinda like rebooting a computer.

Hey, just a thought.

5.56mm


65 posted on 03/24/2016 2:36:50 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Also the fallout problem with actual nukes remains.

Even today, Hiroshima is a glowing wasteland:


66 posted on 03/24/2016 2:36:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Steelfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

I say we take off and nuke the entire site (Mecca) from orbit...it’s the only way to be sure.


67 posted on 03/24/2016 2:37:01 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Steelfish

Yes, not all are great leaders like Obama who will tell our enemy our attack routes and how many troops we would send, not to mention the precise day we would withdraw.


68 posted on 03/24/2016 2:37:45 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Like the Zika virus, Trumpisms have infected the Trumpkins. They use misspelled tweets or pics when their Dear Leader gets caught making asinine statements.


69 posted on 03/24/2016 2:38:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
I frankly don't want the enemy to know how I'm thinking. But with that being said, I don't rule out anything."

This ass is definitely going to lose the general election that will change our country forever.

So why do you have a problem with that? Wasn't the purpose of building a superior war machine that included B-52's and nuclear weapons to deter warfare?

Apologists such as you remind me of Obama; neither one of your philosophies garner global respect for our military and economic contribution to the world.......

70 posted on 03/24/2016 2:39:00 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Durbin

I do not see nothing wrong with what he said. As far as they are concerned now, this country is a bunch of wussies. They have nothing to fear because they know we are not going to do anything. Let them be scared for a change. Vote Trump.


71 posted on 03/24/2016 2:39:47 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Steelfish
"The fact is that we need unpredictability," Trump said of his openness to using nuclear weapons. "When you ask a question like that, it's a very - it is a very sad thing to have to answer it because the enemy is watching and I have a very good chance of winning. I frankly don't want the enemy to know how I'm thinking. But with that being said, I don't rule out anything."

Okay, see, this is all I need to know. He understands that you can't tell the enemy just exactly what to expect. We aren't parents raising children, we are people fighting an enemy, and Trump understands that.

72 posted on 03/24/2016 2:40:38 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. - Sowell)
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To: Steelfish

I support Cruz and I agree with Trump here.


73 posted on 03/24/2016 2:40:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Steelfish

74 posted on 03/24/2016 2:41:23 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: Pelham

And we all know how Goldwater fared in the general election.


75 posted on 03/24/2016 2:41:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Mondale tried to retread that against Reagan. They cailed..


76 posted on 03/24/2016 2:42:19 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Mr. K

ROCK THE CABAH!


77 posted on 03/24/2016 2:42:51 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: PA Engineer

78 posted on 03/24/2016 2:43:06 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Any of that won’t work in 30-second Hillary hit ad on Trump anymore than how Goldwater was hammered and we all know how he did in the general elections.


79 posted on 03/24/2016 2:43:11 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: PA Engineer

Troll? Just because I have the temerity to point out the fact that Trump’s poop stinks?


80 posted on 03/24/2016 2:43:41 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Trump: On the third day of Christmas, Three wives, two affairs, and a partridge in a pear tree.)
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