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| Klinton was gona nuke the Norks??? |
| 2004-11-08 |
| Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea. As part of "scenario 5027," 24 F15-E bombers flew simulation missions at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina to drop mock nuclear bombs on a firing range between January and June 1998, the Korea Times reported Sunday. The revelation followed claims by a South Korean lawmaker that the U.S. drew up plans to launch preemptive strikes on key targets in North Korea in 1994. The report also came amid concerns that President George Bush will take a tougher stance with North Korea during his second term. The declassified documents also said the U.S. had kept nuclear weaponry in South Korea until at least 1998, despite officially claiming it had withdrawn all nuclear warheads in 1991 WOW! Seems to me that this is a rather inopportune time for this to come out, but then maybe it'll help... |
| Posted by:RJB in JC MO |
| #14 There are plans to bomb everything, even France. I'll sleep well tonight. There is no Hell, only France. /Frank Zappa |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-11-08 7:15:03 PM |
| #13 Oh, Curt, I love it when you talk like that. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-08 6:34:58 PM |
| #12 Plans? Hell, I have books of plans and my boys keep them in safes and study them day and night and revise them every darn day. We have so many plans even the NY Times and CBS are targets. |
| Posted by: Curtis LeMay 2004-11-08 6:34:02 PM |
| #11 Plans? Hell, I have books of plans and my boys keep them in safes and study them day and night and revise them every darn day. We have so many plans even the NY Times and CBS are targets. |
| Posted by: Curtis LeMay 2004-11-08 6:33:33 PM |
| #10 I doubt this is Dem attempt to look tough. The tone of article is meant to show how evil US is(horror of horrors!the US was going to nuke N.Korea 24 times just because of a little old invasion). Further,the story was started by a S.Korean pol. If there was any meaning to leaking excercise details,it would be a message to both NK and Iran-don't doubt for a second US will go nuclear on your a**. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-11-08 2:06:20 PM |
| #9 There are plans to bomb everything, even France. Long, long ago on an airbase far, far away I used to study plans to use B-52s to drop iron bombs on NorK targets. Everyone thought that as long as you were going to take the time to make the trip, that you might as well do it right and drop something that precluded the need for a second visit. We had plans like that as well. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-11-08 1:45:25 PM |
| #8 Years ago I use driller's helper(H2O wells),while south of Tucson A-10's would use the rig as a tar5get.They would come in so low the pilot and I would wave at each other.Assume experience. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-11-08 12:02:49 PM |
| #7 Rangers up the cliffs at Quebec. Old white Jews seize the casinos in Niagara Falls. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-11-08 10:46:22 AM |
| #6 Franks hit the nail on the head. We have plans (called OPLANS) to use against just about every enemy in the world. These plans would for the basis for an attack if hotilities were to commence. Not to devulge too much but most of them (if not all) have the "Nuclear" option. They are reviewed annual to make sure they reflect changes in political, economic, and Military changes for that plan. I bet some ex Clintonista leaked this to help boost the Dhimis after the third loss in a row. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-11-08 10:45:18 AM |
| #5 War Plan Red called for a tricky untried ambhip assault on Bermuda and the blockading of the mouth of the St. Lawrence to lure out the British Home Fleet. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-08 10:22:24 AM |
| #4 Yawn, we have plans for everything, from nuking North Korea (in case it looked like we were going to be overrun) to invading Canada and Mexico. Some date back 50 to 100 years. I'm sure deep in the bowels of the Pentagon, someone has the task of pulling these out every few years, dusting them off and updating the details. Not that we plan on using them, it's just that you don't want to get caught without one. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-11-08 10:00:47 AM |
| #3 My brother is an 15E driver at Seymour, they practice dropping nukes (and conventional) weapons all the freaking time. I've got gun camera footage of my house (outside charlotte) where he used it as a target! Kind of freaky really, you can see my dog in the thermal sites at one point! Oh, and he don't miss! |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-11-08 8:35:57 AM |
| #2 Democratic spin to try to imply alignment with Bush "security" voters before they start to think of themselves as Republicans? Or pre-election Democratic spin to stir up the anti-American elements in South Korea? I would love to know the path and timing of these "newly declassified" documents. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-11-08 8:14:00 AM |
| #1 we always have plans - the will to follow through is the problem. Clinton NEVER would've used this plan, and rolling this out now is strictly to revise his history, and polish the Hildabeast's foreign policy/military star for '08 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-08 8:01:08 AM |