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Accidental
or Intentional Nuclear War?
Comment by Larry
Ross, August 8, 2005
Although this book was written
in 1993, it is an excellent source book on the basic dangers of an accidental
nuclear war that destroys our planet. He details many near misses. As
a previous minute-man officer he is well-qualified to write such a book.
Bruce Blair is now president of the Centre for Defense Information in
Washington, and the author of many new papers updating these dangers.
However the Bush Administration has added a new dimension to this problem.
That is the increasing danger of an intentional nuclear war. Both Bush,
and Blair for the UK, threatened to use nuclear weapons against Iraq before
they invaded, if Saddam used chemical weapons to defend Iraq.
Also, Bush has lowered the threshold of possible nuclear weapon use by
changing nuclear doctrines to allow nuclear weapons to be used in conventional
military situations. As the US military is extended by the worsening of
their illegal war on Iraq, it is possible that if a new war is launched
against Iran the US may implement the new doctrine 'in order to avoid
defeat and save American lives etc'. That the US put their men in such
a situation, and intended to use nuclear weapons, will not likely be mentioned
by a compliant media that consistently supports the Bush war even though
many of the lies were known before the invasion.
Also, local commanders are now authorised to recommend the use of nuclear
weapons if they feel they need such weapons in threatening situations.
The American people have shown they will accept such excuses ... whether
true or false. As the litany of lies Bush used to fool people into supporting
his war proves, they will accept such lies as truth, even when later exposed.
That's why Bush still repeats many of lies.
"The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it" Hitler
said. He might have added "In my dictatorship dissenting views will
not be tolerated, and dissenters may be shot or imprissoned."
Yet this doctrine has worked even in the land of 'freedom and democracy'
where dissent was once an honoured tradition. The US 'free press' has
helped make it possible by endlessly repeating the lies, and never admitting
they were lies or apologising to their readers for misleading them.
The technique of lying has proved effective to justify the conventional
war on Iraq which killed over 100,000 people in Iraq...so far.. The Bush
neocon administration was rewarded with a second term for Bush. They will
not suddenly decide to abort and stop this kind of success of their own
accord. They are likely to repeat it for the next war on their agenda
- such as Iran.
Bush's consistent attempts to normalise the possible use of nuclear weapons,
suggests he will apply the same kind of deceitful techniques to justify
nuclear war. Consider the coupling of this technique of lying to get support
for the strategy you want with the techniques of covert action and counterinsurgency
where the US itself commits terrorist acts and then blames 'the terrorists'
in order to justify ever more repression, slaughter and 'keeping US troops
in Iraq'.
Add to that the many possible ways that accidental nuclear war can happen
and you can imagine how an unscrupulous regime could arrange a nuclear
war and make it look accidental.
There is also Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive war (successfully used in
Iraq) and pre-emptive nuclear war, which can be based on just about any
excuses the President wishes to use.
These are some of the reasons why it is the most dangerous time in human
history, and why Dr Helen Caldicott expects there will be a nuclear war
during Bush's second term.
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