Grave and Growing

2008-12-04T08:38:38Z

http://www.LeadingToWar.com/mechanism_war_manfacture.php#grave_danger
This video comes from LeadingToWar.com, a website that provides a well-documented examination of the Bush administration's pre-war claims.

See more clips like this -- and watch the U.S. government's blueprint for war unfold, as told by the architects themselves.

Even if you watched the news at the time, you'll be surprised.

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Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told

2008-01-22T19:10:05Z

There goes what was left of my appetite:

The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists.
Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US, Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a "first strike" nuclear option remains an "indispensable instrument" since there is "simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world".

Well, not any more, not after that little bombshell (no pun).

It has been presented to the Pentagon in Washington and to Nato's secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, over the past 10 days. [...] Ron Asmus, head of the German Marshall Fund thinktank in Brussels and a former senior US state department official, described the manifesto as "a wake-up call". "This report means that the core of the Nato establishment is saying we're in trouble, that the west is adrift and not facing up to the challenges."

What next? New "duck and cover" public service films?

Robert Cooper, an influential shaper of European foreign and security policy in Brussels, said he was "puzzled".
"Maybe we are going to use nuclear weapons before anyone else, but I'd be wary of saying it out loud."

Ohhh, yes, yes, that element of surprise. Leaking that was probably not a wise decision.

General Klaus Naumann, Germany's former top soldier and ex-chairman of Nato's military committee, suggested the threat of nuclear attack was a counsel of desperation:

"Proliferation is spreading and we have not too many options to stop it. We don't know how to deal with this."
Nato needed to show "there is a big stick that we might have to use if there is no other option", he said.

If anyone's looking for me, I'll be under my desk.

Rumsfeld Busting on Iraq Immediate Threat

2008-10-14T11:27:13Z

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WMD threat at Brave New Films

Grave and Growing

Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told

Rumsfeld Busting on Iraq Immediate Threat