Related Link » Our Nuclear PostureSo in 1991, Saddam Hussein, the megalomaniacal tyrant facing certain defeat by the American coalition forces, nevertheless, refrained from launching his doomsday arsenal. Why? Well, because the United States implicitly, and possibly explicitly, threatened:
Under the Obama administration? Supine.
“During the course of the 1991 Gulf war, Iraq fired 88 Scud missiles at targets in Israel and Saudi Arabia. All of them were armed with conventional warheads. This despite the fact that Iraq then possessed large stocks of chemical and biological weapons. Indeed, after the war, U.N. chief weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus found that Iraq had armed 25 missile warheads and 166 bombs with biological weapons. None of them were used, even as the Iraqi military faced the overwhelming might of a U.S.-led international coalition in a war Iraq was sure to lose. […] Four years later, Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz told Ekeus that Iraq had been deterred from using its WMD because it interpreted these (and other) American threats as promises of nuclear retaliation. […] Among the changes to American nuclear strategy announced in the [Obama administration’s 2010 Nuclear Posture] review, the United States has now promised not to threaten or use nuclear weapons in response to a chemical or biological attack by a nonnuclear state.”
— By Michael Anton, April 19, 2010 (TWS)
"Chemical and/or biological weapons equal nuclear weapons. Comprende, mofo?"But, The Obamajama Rahm-a-Llama Ding-Dong Circus has no need of doomsday deterrence. That is so Pre-Second-Coming, don't you know? The Obama Greatness Himself will deliver us from evil with His phenomenal smooth-talking fabulousness. And He will get us to the promised land of unicorns and pansies, and everything your petty little hearts ever wished for but didn't have the money or the will for.
This relentless piecemeal dismantling of American greatness has to stop. Now.
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