Useful Fools

An update since the previous “Korea War Warning” post - the BBC reports that the US has warned North Korea about moving their spent fuel rods:

The White House has warned North Korea against moving to manufacture weapons-grade plutonium by reprocessing nuclear fuel rods.

The New York Times is reporting that North Korea is now transporting spent nuclear fuel to its plutonium reprocessing plant. If not stopped in the next month or so, North Korea could produce a number of nuclear weapons - enough that they could (and probably would) sell some to terrorists!

Thus the US may be forced to destroy the plant with air strikes, and do it within the next month or two.

Fortunately the plant is above ground. Unfortunately, North Korea holds 20,000,000 people in the Seoul area of South Korea hostage, and can also send chemical weapons loaded missiles into Japan’s population centers.

Should North Korea miscalculate and launch such an attack, the United States would have no choice but to immolate North Korea with nuclear weapons.

It is probably no accident that the classified National Security Presidential Directive 17 was just leaked. It formally authorizes the use of nuclear weapons as a response to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the US or its allies. While most articles are interpreting this in light of the Iraq situation, the use of nukes is far more likely if the Korean situation spins out of control.

Likewise, one should note that recent force deployments from San Diego could go to either Korea or the Persian Gulf.

Folks, this could get very hairy, very quickly!

For miscellaneous facts about nuclear weapons and radiation, check this summary.

According to Fred Barnes on Fox News:

We need the French for the coming war so they can teach the Iraqi’s how to surrender.

Now, lest I be viewed as anti-French, let me comment that I really loved French food during the time I lived in Paris. When it comes to food, the French are the best. When it comes to world affairs… well…. The French are to world affairs as the British are to cooking!

CBS MarketWatch headlines “Ads rushing out of Limbaugh show.” Certainly might be a worthy subject (were it true)… but a reading of the piece reveals the author to be a left wing ideologue. Clearly he would love for Limbaugh to be taken down a notch.

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Just now on Fox News, General McInerney asserted that France and Germany will always resist an attack on Iraq to cover up the records showing their “complicity” with Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction program.

Thus, our putative allies have been helping Iraq with its WMD program, and they don’t want the world to find out. Their posturing about multilateralism and extended inspections are just a cynical delaying tactic to cover up their crimes.

As William Quick points out, Hillary is attacking Bush for not doing enough to protect America. This is a continuation of the democratic tactics first pointed out by this blog just after the election. The New York Post has also picked up on this theme.

A couple of important points need to be made in this regard:

First, the Bush administration has actually done a lot to improve our security. Have they done enough? Perhaps not. But those who believe we are no more safe have not looked at things from the point of view of the terrorists.

The terrorists have lost their operational bases. Many are dead or in custody being interrogated and revealing their secrets. The US is re on alert. We have a massive anti-bioterrorism effort cranking up. Americans will no longer let terrorists hijack their aircraft - we learn fast! Our critical facilities are being guarded more closely. Our skies have many more armed fighters available for interdiction, and we do not hesitate to use them. Our allies (even the squishy ones like the French) are arresting terrorists that they previously ignored. Governments which previously supported the terrorists with impunity are gone (Taliban), scared to death or actively cooperating with us.

Second, there is no way to stop terrorists completely. There will be more terrorist attacks in the US. Hillary and others are amoral opportunists who seek political advantage from this. One wonders if, in her tiny little black heart, Hillary is anxiously awaiting the next attack.

Could a Phoenix eco-terrorist have contributed to the 9-11 attacks? Three of the terrorists trained in Phoenix, and the pilot of the Pentagon aircraft lived there. A Phoenix FBI agent warned about terrorist training at local flying schools. Unfortunately in 2001, the “Preserve Arsonist” was torching houses on the edge of the scenic Phoenix mountain preserve. The entire Phoenix FBI anti-terrorism squad was distracted trying to catch the him. Without that distraction, would they have stopped 9-11? We will never know.

The next time somebody tells you that eco-terrorism doesn’t hurt anyone (they just burn buildings, blah blah blah)… remind them of this.

According to England’s Times Online,

“FARMERS throughout the country have 90 days to put a toy in every pigsty or face up to three months in jail.”

The Eurocracy has decreed that pigs are to get “environmental enrichment” via “manipulable material.”

I only hope it will make the pigs taste better!

What next? Stress counselors for potatos?

(Keywords: smallpox, Henderson, USSR, biological warfare, Iraq, North Korea)
Smallpox was eradicated to make soviet weapons more deadly!

This is a reasonable conclusion to be drawn from recent evidence about the smallpox eradication effort. More precisely, the Soviet contribution to smallpox eradication, which was crucial to the effort, was motivated by their biological weapons goals.

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While much attention has been paid to nuclear and chemical weapons, the biggest terrorist threat to the United States is biological. It is not surprising that the government says little about this, because at this time there is not much we can do about it.

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