[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

[Jim Devine]

On 4/10/06, Tim <tim_boetie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:19 -0400, Josh Narins wrote:
> > Hersh makes mistakes of fact and logic in his article, which Dr Lewis
> > describes there:
> > http://www.ArmsControlWonk.com/1030/we-are-not-going-to-nuke-iran
>
> That post assumes that the US would only use nuclear weapons if they
> were military necessary. Do we have any reason to think that's the case?

no we don't. The US almost used nukes several times during the Cold
War (in Korea, Vietnam). The current crowd of cretins running the US
government believes strongly in bring ing back Cold War attitudes and
that when they were applied back then, "we" didn't go far enough, we
weren't resolute enough, etc. (The Cold War was World War III in this
view, while the WoT is World War IV.)

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