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2007-02-06 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-06 11:32|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If 9/11 doesn't matter to Americans, being nuked one or more times won't matter either. There is such a thing as invincible stupidity. Look at George Soros, John F. Kerry and Noam Chomsky, for starters.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-06 11:44|| 2007-02-06 11:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ...the looney left and the MSM should be tossed onto this dung heap also.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-06 11:54|| 2007-02-06 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Within the previous 72 hours a series of eight successive, delayed nuclear devices had been detonated. Indescribably large portions of metro Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and two thirds of the island of Manhattan have been turned into steaming craters.

I dunno'...having large portions of blue-state America turned into steaming craters doesn't sound all that bad...(gotta' see that silver lining)...

In all seriousness, though, this would have the effect of really pissing off the rest (red-state America) of the country. You want to see America really take its revenge and anger out on somebody, anybody, go ahead and do this. There's not a rock big enough to hide under this side of Jupiter.

Lashing out at the rest of the world in revenge and hate is not something I would encourage in red-staters or Americans in general. We have this tendency to break things and kill people when we're pissed off.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-06 15:06|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-06 15:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I think this essay is nonsense, but... But while the political center of the Federal government is in Washington, DC, the military are more diffuse, both at home and abroad; there are plenty of people fully capable of taking on the responsibilities of higher rank; and, they have private communication systems not tied to the public grids. If something like this were to happen, I'd expect a massive military response within days against Iran and others already pre-gamed and on file. As a result we'd have peace on Earth for at least a full generation, possibly two... and any disturbances after that would not be from jihadis... or China, either.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-06 18:06|| 2007-02-06 18:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I dunno'...having large portions of blue-state America turned into steaming craters doesn't sound all that bad...(gotta' see that silver lining)...

*cough* Ahem, Dallas is not a Blue City, and Texas is not a Blue State. I for one (living in Fort Worth) would be very pissed if they popped a nuke in my backyard.

Posted by Thrulet Clineth3512 2007-02-06 18:49|| 2007-02-06 18:49|| Front Page Top

#6 *cough* Ahem, Dallas is not a Blue City, and Texas is not a Blue State. I for one (living in Fort Worth) would be very pissed if they popped a nuke in my backyard.

What? You missed the rest of the comment (or simply ignored it)?

"Large portions" of the areas mentioned are, in fact, blue state areas. And you should be rightly pissed off if anyone popped off a nuke in your backyard or anywhere else in the USA, blue state or otherwise.

Note the sarcasm in the first comment, please.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-06 19:22|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-06 19:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Unless they take out Cheyenne Mountain and other hardened military sites, all that the nuke attacks would do is kill millions of civilians, cause trillions of dollars worth of damage, and result in the thermonuclear extermination of the Muslim population centers. There are in-place plans and orders for the military to function if there ever were a successful decapitation strike against the US. Besides which, in this scenario, there is no surviving civilian oversight for the military; and a population screaming for revenge writ large. Dresden, Nagasaki, and blitzed London would look like cakewalks compared to the MAD strikes on the Muslim world.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-02-06 19:41|| 2007-02-06 19:41|| Front Page Top

#8 LEFT + ANTI-US AGENDISTS > All reasons, directly or indirectly, justifys ANTI US OWG + national-global SOCIALISM = GOVERNMENTISM - you know, Laissez Faire-Libertarianism. We all know how everyone in the USSR-Red China, etal Commie Bloc = Third World despotic states tippy-toed naked thru the tulips , drugged/spaced out + frivol waavy graavy flower-waving during the Cold War, BECUZ THE ULTRA-LEFT ARMY-POLICE STATE LET THEM, now don't we!? PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Remember, WOT > inducing = forcing America under anti-US OWG + Socialism. NOW LETS ALL WATCH CNN AGAIN AND HEAR OSAMA HIMSELF SAY IN FRONT OF CAMERA + PARTY BOYZ THAT HE = RADIC ISLAM WILL DO ANYTHING TO BRING ABOUT THE DE FACTO DEFEAT AND DESTRUCTION OF THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. REST ASSURED OSAMA, etal. ARE NOT GONNA CARE WHETHER AMERICANS = AMERIKANS BELIEVE HIS WARNINGS + FATWAS OR NOT.

FOX > KONDRACHE [paraphrased] > for the prior Congressional elex, every candidate = gener MOVING TO THE LEFT REGARDLESS OF ANY POLLS?SURVEYS IN SUPPORT OF DUBYA. Remains to be seen iff it will change for the 2008 POTUS elex.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-06 19:51|| 2007-02-06 19:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Because, President-elect means jackshit until he is sworn in : refer to the 25th amendment and the Presidential Succession Act. Meaning that if any of the Cabinet officers listed are alive and functioning, that person is now Commander-in-Chief until the new President is sworn in, 3 months later. Lots of smoke and ashes were the Muslim world used to be in that time frame. Or in the alternative, the existing National Security Directives hold sway until the new President in sworn in on January 20, 2009.
Besides which, with no House or Senate to do the formal confirmation of the Electors votes, how legal is the President-elect : look at the Constitution and prior US Supreme Court decisions about elections? And without a Supreme Court, White House, Congress, or major agency centers left, how is the non-military side of the government going to do anything?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-02-06 19:53|| 2007-02-06 19:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Also, the strike against Israel would have resulted in the Samson Option being taken, which in and of itself leave very little of the Arab world behind. Especially for Iran, the Israeli MAD strikes would eliminate the Iranian cities, military, and general population centers. Now if the story was that the Iranians waited until the strike on the US, might be a bit more believable.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-02-06 20:17|| 2007-02-06 20:17|| Front Page Top

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