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Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
FAS: "Nuclear weapons are surprisingly prominent in the Pentagon's new offensive Global Strike mission, according to the new FAS report Global Strike: A Chronology of the Pentagon's New Offensive Strike Plan."
"What makes the nuclear option in CONPLAN 8022 particularly surprising is that Global Strike is one of the pillars of the Bush administration's vision of a 'New Triad' where advanced conventional weapons were supposed to permit a reduction of the number and role of nuclear weapons. Instead, one of the first acts of the Pentagon appears to have been to include nuclear weapons in the very plan that was supposed to reduce the nuclear role. Overall, the number of nuclear weapons in the stockpile may be declining because there are simply too many of them.
But the nuclear option in CONPLAN 8022 suggests that the planners simultaneously have created a new mission that reaffirms the importance and broadens the role of nuclear weapons further by changing or lowering the perceived threshold or timing for when nuclear weapons may be used in a conflict. That threshold must be different than in the past, otherwise why include a nuclear option in CONPLAN 8022?
In CONPLAN 8022 this assured destruction capability is intended not just in retaliation but in preemption.
It is no longer appropriate, STRATCOM argued, to use the terminology 'war' when describing the situations in which nuclear weapons might be used. Rather, 'conflict' should be used because it 'emphasizes the nature of most conflicts resulting in use of a nuclear weapon'.
'Global' refers to where the targets are, not the range of the weapons.
The Global Strike mission is still in its early stages, but it too promises to fundamentally shape U.S. nuclear policy and international relations."
The president of the United States is the person who will decide to use nuclear weapons, and as it is not a matter of war (only Congress can declare war), the Congress will not be involved in the decision.
With Bush as rogue president - our latter-day Dr. Strangelove - this is tantamount to preparing for World War III. When the mission is in full operational capability in November 2008 to 2010, it doesn't matter whether the president is a democrat or a republican; there seem to be no objections from the democrats at all.
From 24 October - 8 November 2006 a STRATCOM sponsored Global Strike exercise Global Lightning 07 is scheduled.
The US is a danger for world peace. The Global Strike Mission is not defensive but offensive. It is meant to destroy the sovereignty of those nations the reigning fool in the White House will consider as rogue nations.
2:28:41 PM 
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Salon: "279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison - and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.
Finally, it's critical to recognize that this set of images from Abu Ghraib is only one snapshot of systematic tactics the United States has used in four-plus years of the global war on terror."
ICH: "An American described as a security contractor has been arrested by police in a northern Iraqi town with weapons in his car, said a provincial official."
Reuters: "Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.
Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue - five children, two men and four women."
SFGate: "Few Iraqis, however, share Bush's view that the crisis has been averted. They are readying themselves for the worst, fleeing likely flash points, stockpiling weapons and basic foodstuffs, barricading their neighborhoods, and drawing lines in the sand delineating Sunni and Shiite territory."
WashingtonPost: "President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq."
George W. Bush has only started his killing spree.
11:31:51 AM
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Guardian: "The government's controversial education bill tonight passed its second reading but only with the support of Conservative MPs - to the embarrassment of Tony Blair."
Independent: "Critics were quick to rename Mr Blair 'Ramsay MacBlair', after the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, seen as a traitor in Labour ranks after forming a national government with the Tories in 1931. Left-wingers claimed the Prime Minister had 'walked out on the party and effectively resigned as leader'."
Independent: "The scandal of the alleged 'loans for favours' surrounding Tony Blair deepened last night after the treasurer of the Labour Party furiously demanded a high-level Labour inquiry into whether the Prime Minister gave peerages in return for £3.5m in loans to the party by three businessmen."
Tony Blair is not a democrat, he is not a socialist, but a neocon capitalist whose reforms are meant to favour corporations and the rich. His policies increase the income and welfare gap. Personally and politically he is a right-wing conservative, a traitor of the people he is supposed to serve. And a war criminal at that.
"Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, condemned the armed Israeli raid on Jericho's prison as an 'ugly crime that cannot be forgiven' yesterday and strongly implied Britain and the US had been complicit in it."
Independent: "Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna are among eight British residents who remain prisoners at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They are jailed because British officials rendered them into the hands of the CIA in Africa, a fact that may explain why the British government refuses to intercede on their behalf. Bisher and Jamil have been wrongfully imprisoned now for more than three years."
Scotsman: "Forcing a prisoner's head under water until they believe they are drowning does not necessarily constitute torture or abusive treatment, the Foreign Office has said. The equivocal statement has fuelled suspicions that Britain is turning a blind eye to practices by its allies that many international lawyers believe are illegal."
11:18:08 AM
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