Archive for June 16th, 2008

Warming The Bench

Monday, June 16th, 2008

An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

“May have”? They don’t know? Of course they know.

The now-defunct ring led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is previously known to have sold bomb-related parts to Libya, Iran and North Korea. A draft report by former top U.N. arms inspector David Albright says the smugglers also acquired designs for building a more sophisticated compact nuclear device that could be fitted on a type of ballistic missile used by Iran and other developing countries, according to the Post.

The drawings were discovered in 2006 on computers owned by Swiss businessmen; they were recently destroyed by the Swiss government under the supervision of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency to keep them out of terrorists’ hands. But U.N. officials said they couldn’t rule out that the material already had been shared.

“These advanced nuclear weapons designs may have long ago been sold off to some of the most treacherous regimes in the world,” Albright wrote in the draft report, which was expected to be published later this week, the Post reported.

This Pakistani nuclear scientist and top Pakistan government official was selling off nuclear bomb parts and design plans to all comers and the Pakistan government was raking in the dough from it. “May have shared”. Really. Sow the seeds of doubt to give us a false sense of security. Very nice. Meanwhile Iran is refining weapons grade plutonium to make these bombs which will be stuck at the ends of their already operational missiles, and when they have enough of them, they’ll use them.

You know, this is a lot like the days when Hitler and Tojo were building their war machines and the rest of us happy little freedom lovers were sitting there with our thumbs up our butts watching them. It was only after we were attacked that we finally took action, even though all our allies were getting the hell beat out of them. The next time around the attack is going to be nuclear unless we get off our thumbs and take action now.

We don’t want to be the first to use nukes. So we will wait until they’re used on us, and THEN we’ll use them. Knowing full well that the attack is coming, we will not make the pre-emptive strike that could prevent a full-blown world war. We didn’t do it last time and we won’t do it this time. Last time many millions of people all over the world died. This time it will be a hundred times more who will die. You know it. I know it. We all know it. We’re just waiting for it.