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Bambam not briefed on US Nuke strike plans for months after inaugural

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Apr 6, 2010.

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  1. basso

    basso Contributing Member
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    Newsweek via Ace.

    Ever since the dawn of the atomic age at Hiroshima in August 1945, American presidents have been trying to figure out how to climb off the nuclear treadmill. The urgency may have faded in the post–Cold War era, but the weapons are still there. By 2002, President George W. Bush was signing off on a document containing his administration's Nuclear Posture Review, an -analysis of how America's nuclear arms might be used. Bush scribbled on the cover, "But why do we still have to have so many?" According to a knowledgeable source who would not be identified discussing sensitive national-security matters, President Obama wasn't briefed on the U.S. nuclear-strike plan against Russia and China until some months after he had taken office. "He thought it was insane," says the source. (The reason for the delay is unclear; the White House did not respond to repeated inquiries.)​

    this seems a tad neglectful, n'est ce pas?
     
    #1 basso, Apr 6, 2010
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    this is so hypocritical its not even worth pointing out

    poor basso
     
    #2 pgabriel, Apr 6, 2010
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    It's not hypocritical so much as unintentionally self-pwning.

    basso doesn't know this, but one of the worst things about the failure of the Bush Administration in the days leading up to September 11, was that on the morning of September 11, 2001, despite repeated warnings of an attack inside the continental US in the near future, the US national security apparatus (Rice and Rummy) were on their way to a briefing about what THEY saw as the clear cut number one, national security priority, ground based ballistic missile defense from ICBM attack.

    It's still shocking even 10 years later that they could have been so oblivious.
     
    #3 SamFisher, Apr 6, 2010
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    Wow, and we're still here?
     
    #4 Rashmon, Apr 6, 2010
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    and this is relevant to this discussion because...?
     
    #5 basso, Apr 6, 2010
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    Why didn't bambam have his own cereal like pebbles? Not cool.
     
    #6 conquistador#11, Apr 6, 2010
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