Bush approves nuclear response

Washington Times ^ | 1/31/03 | Nicholas Kralev

[kattracks]

A classified document signed by President Bush specifically allows for the use of nuclear weapons in response to biological or chemical attacks, apparently changing a decades-old U.S. policy of deliberate ambiguity, it was learned by The Washington Times.

"The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force

[Menkenspiel]

Ok, I give up, the North Korea reference is easy, but I can't think of a "P" nation which is a threat.

Uh, how about Pakistan?

[ASA Vet]

Well that certainly was one of my "duh" moments.
I hate it when that happens.

[elfman2]

”Somethings need to be repeated!

The disclosure of the classified text follows newspaper reports that the planning for a war with Iraq focuses on using nuclear arms not only to defend U.S. forces but also to "pre-empt" deeply buried Iraqi facilities that could withstand conventional explosives. ”

No, This is already just repetition. The LA Times came out with this unsubstantiated fear mongering claim last week and now someone at the WT chose to reference it. It wasn’t worth repeating then or now. It’s like the preverbal lie that makes it half way around the world before the truth gets off the ground.

Preemptive use of nukes is too big a policy change to be undertaken like this. This story is either the LA Times playing games or the Pentagon doing the same with Saddam’s people.

[ASA Vet]

So you have a clear vision

I don't have visions at all. That was banned poster spiritoftruth.

[BOBTHENAILER]

The classified document, a copy of which was shown to The Washington Times, is known better by its abbreviation NSPD 17, as well as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 4.

Well Dave, I believe NSPD 17 puts the N in the doctine quite sufficiently.

It's about time.

[ewing]

I think this is referring to the small load bunker busting nukes were tested lately in Nevada.

[Semper Paratus]

Interesting the timing of this release.
Sadaam may need to reinforce his bunkers a bit.

[Man of the Right]

"I will defend the American people." -- George W. Bush

He isn't just whistling "Dixie."

[sneakypete]

I suspect we would send some special ops or members of the resistance in to evacuate them before the weapons hit.

I would hope not,as this would not only be a sure death sentence for these troops,but a warning to the Iraquis that that site was going to be hit.

[MeekOneGOP]

bttt for later read.

Mornin' !

[sneakypete]

I think you might want to consider whether not responding to a CBR attack with the best weapons in our arsenal is moral or not.

I have already considered,and agree that such a response would be appropiate.

Now ask yourself whether allowing American soldiers to die to maintain your image is moral.

Ask yourself if allowing them to die while fighting a war against the wrong enemy to protect your buddies in Saudi Arabia is the moral thing to do,or if dying to help with a reelection effort is the moral thing to do.

[JimRed]

We lose the moral high ground when we are the first ones to resort to using WMD...

We do not plan FIRST use, but use in response. Just not necessarily in kind; chem = bio = nuke.

[Freebird Forever]

Depending on where the potential strike(s) occur,
would the residual radiation muck up the oil fields
for any significant amount of time?

[TankerKC]

Frankly, I'm proud and honored to have a President who is deliverately unambiguous.

Me too!

[anniegetyourgun]

I done told ya' and told ya'....we should have NO stated position on this issue. The world should always be left wondering - will she, or won't she?

[Happy2BMe]

"I'm not going to put anything on the table or off the table," White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said on NBC's "Meet the Press," adding that the United States will use "whatever means necessary" to protect its citizens and the world from a "holocaust."

Translation to Saddam: "Make My Day!"

Translation to All Other: "Yeah, we'll call your jihad and meet it with your trip to paradise."

[concerned about politics]

This has always been US policy. If we need the nukes to protect Americans, we'll use them.

[verity]

Susan Saranwrap and Barbra Stressedout must be outraged:~)

[concerned about politics]

The White House has ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans for using nuclear weapons against at least seven countries and to build smaller nuclear bombs for certain battlefield situations, according to a published report today.

Tops on the nuclear hit list are China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria, according to a classified Pentagon report obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

"This is dynamite," Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear arms expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, told the newspaper. "I can imagine what these countries are going to be saying at the UN."

It sounds like this guy is saying "Oh goodie, goodie, goodie! Ben and Jerry's ice cream for everyone!. We've got Bush now. He he he." Stupid liberals. Every country prepares the same way during a war. Even their God Clinton did it.
They've also got theirs aimed at us just in case, too. Liberal idiots.
They should just stay out of politics and go back to their playpens.

[sneakypete]

We do not plan FIRST use, but use in response.

My post was in response to people wanting us to be the first to use WMD.