[Tailgunner Joe]

We Need the Bomb - Part II The Brazilian government is finally on the right track, regarding its defense strategy. It is time for Brazil to unsign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. North Korea just announced that they are unsigning from that treaty. In 90 days, it is a done deal!

Latin American Nuclear Axis?

[eshu]

Delusion of sovreignty - Bush'll set'em straight, LOL!

[martin_fierro]

Brazil already has Da Bomb. <|:)~

[dennisw]

Brazil needs nukes to defend themselves against who? No one wants to invade and take over that god forsaken pesthole.

[Riley]

Para bailar la Bomba
Para bailar la Bomba se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia y otra cosita
Y arriba y arriba
Y arriba y arriba y arriba ire
Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, por ti sere,
Por ti sere, por ti sere.
Bomba, Bomba, Bomba, Bomba
Bomba, Bomba
Bomba.
Para bailar la Bomba
Para bailar la Bomba se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Ay y arriba y arriba
Y arriba y arriba y arriba ire
Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan,
Soy capitan, soy capitan.
Bomba, Bomba, Bomba, Bomba
Bomba, Bomba
Bomba.

Oops, they speak Portuguese there, don't they. :-)

[ffusco]

Great another French speaking nation with delusions of granduer. I have a better idea. Brazil can repay me all the money I've sent in government loans over there the last 2 decades that they renegged on. After that they can play with atoms.

[dfwgator]

Somebody set us up the bomb.

[marron]

India or Pakistan will be considered ahead of Brazil to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

You are too late. The UN Security Council just committed suicide.

As for the need for a nuclear weapon, that depends. If your purpose is to expel the US invaders, you have to remember what you yourself wrote; we have promised not to use nuclear weapons on any non-nuclear power. If you have nuclear weapons, and you seriously consider yourself an adversary to the US, you have set yourself up for some serious pain.

The better path is to remain outside the nuclear club. Or, if you insist on joining it, do not make yourself a threat to the US.

It isn't the nuclear weapon that is the problem. It is the threat to the US.

[Texas_Jarhead]

what a bunch of crap

[merak]

The entire world knows that the US means business when it comes to using arms of mass destruction. We all know that when the US government implies that it will use nuclear weapons, you can count on it. I would like to make just one more point on this subject: the US never used atomic weapons against a white/Caucasian state including the Russian Evil Empire and Nazi Germany, but the US used the atomic bomb against another race—Japan a yellow/oriental state.

I don't think most people understand the reality of this one. Those two atom bombs saved millions of Japanese lives. The stuff they'd have been looking at two months later would have been vastly worse. A minimal laundry list of what they'd have seen would have to include the following:

• Curtis LeMay being totally resupplied with the little 10 lb. incindiaries which had been used to lay waste 75 Japanese cities, and which he'd run out of in July.
• B-29's operating from Okinawa instead of the Marianas, effectively tripling the number of missions those planes could fly in a given time period.
• All major US carrier groups freed from supporting invasions and available for assaults on Japan. The fast carriers were only vulnerable to kamikazes while being held on station to support invasions, and no further invasions were needed.
• Midway class carriers with armored flight decks arriving for duty with complements of bearcats and tigercats, i.e. far more advanced and lethal aircraft than the Japanese had dealt with previously.
• Mass starvation due to the destruction of the Japanese merchant marine.
• Mass death of millions of inhabitants of former cities walking around in forested areas...

Basically, a serious racist conducting American policy at that time would have saved the two atom bombs for dealing with the communist world and simply let nature take its course with the Japanese.

[greydog]

Remember, the United States is the only country in history to use nuclear weapons against another country. President Truman unleashed atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki— killing over 100,000 people with one shot

One shot?

I would like to make just one more point on this subject: the US never used atomic weapons against a white/Caucasian state including the Russian Evil Empire and Nazi Germany, but the US used the atomic bomb against another race—Japan a yellow/oriental state.

If memory serves me correctly, there were more casualties in Dresden from mass weapons of destruction there than the two weapons of mass destruction dropped in Japan.

[VetoBill]

The United States actions make it clear to the world that treaties are made to be broken and that treaties just have a certain useful purpose.

No kidding. Why can't we return to the good ol' days of treaties with absolutely no useful purpose.

[George W. Bush]

Without nuclear weapons Brazil will never be taken seriously by the major countries of the world. India or Pakistan will be considered ahead of Brazil to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

A writer on defense policy so stupid that he thinks membership in the United Nations is particularly important? He hasn't even realized it's just a convenient propaganda platform for various powers.

[Centurion2000]

Brazil needs nuclear weapons to protect its claim of absolute sovereignty over its territory and population.

Of course if they do this and then square off against the US at some future point we'll be using SSGNs in the South Atlantic as a first strike weapon.

Nuke are NOT what Brazil needs. Stable and effective government should be first on their list.

[Paulus Invictus]

The problem is that Brazil is now lead by a communist prez with serious marxist ideas of hating America of personal grandeur and region-wide expansion. He goes by the name Lula and has been a force for the left since the 1970's. He has already made contacts with Fidel of Cuba and commie Sanchez of Venezuela. Time to dust off the Monroe Doctrine and make big economic waves for all three countries and fast!

[wcbtinman]

If the French surrender monkeys give the Brazilians nuclear technology, we should bomb France back to the stone age.

Actually, we should bomb the ungrateful bastards anyway.

[Ichneumon]

Brazil - We Need the Bomb

If they want one so badly, I'm sure we could arrange to deliver one to them. *cough*.

[denydenydeny]

I love people who come to power in the name of the poor, and the first thing they do is initiate a multi-billion-dollar nuclear weapons program.

[Beck_isright]

"Without nuclear weapons Brazil will never be taken seriously by the major countries of the world."

Even with "nuclear weapons" why in God's name would we take Brazil seriously other than for half-naked tanned babes and a place to fly to and get drunk and lucky for a week for less than $2,000???

[unspun]

SET UP US !!

[Tailgunner Joe]

Brazil uranium sales to Iraq stir debate - upi - 9/25/02 - "...Khidir Hamza -- who defected from Iraq in 1994 -- told the British newspaper that 1.3 tons of low-enriched material bought from Brazil was being processed for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, according to Brazil's Jornal da Tarde newspaper, which recently reprinted a 1990 expose entitled "The dark history of the relationship between Brazil and Iraq," Brazil sold three large shipments of uranium to Iraq in clandestine transactions. An International Atomic Energy Agency report says that U.N. weapons inspectors, during a 1991-97 investigation into Iraq's nuclear capabilities, found some 27 tons of uranium originating from Brazil. An investigation by Jornal da Tarde and its parent publication, Estado de Sao Paulo, claims that Brazil exported "dozens of tons" of uranium to Iraq between 1979 and 1990 in undocumented deals."