----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:08 PM Subject: Re: U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >Los Angeles Times 9 March 2002
> >
> >U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
> >Military: Administration, in a secret report, calls for a
strategy
> >against at least seven nations: China, Russia, Iraq, Iran,
North
> >Korea, Libya and Syria.
> >
> >By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer
> >
> >WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has directed the
military to
> >prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against at
least
> >seven countries and to build smaller nuclear weapons for use
in
> >certain battlefield situations, according to a classified
Pentagon
> >report obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
>
> These people are scary. Is this the core of US bourgeois
opinion, or
> are these folks marginal loons?
>
> Doug
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Those guys think about that stuff all the time. That's Pentagon SOP. Military literacy in the US is even worse than economic literacy so LA Times want to play the Bushies as whacko's, which they are, but it's nothing new as far as military brass are concerned...
Ian