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U.S. Threatens To Use Nuclear
Weapons 17 Times
Comment by Larry
Ross, November 17, 2005
The following article documents 134 U.S. Military interventions from
1890 to 1999 and 16 U.S. threats to use nuclear weapons. It includes an
actual nuclear bombing in WW II against mainly civilian targets - the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on June 6 and 9, in 1945. The
U.S. threatened a 17th nuclear weapons use against Iraq in 2003, if the
U.S. judged that Iraq had used chemical weapons as a defence against the
U.S.-U.K. illegal invasion, even though this invasion was based on lies.
(For list of 17 nuclear threats read through following article.)
Recently, under the Bush Administration, the U.S. has decreed that it
may actually use nuclear weapons in conventional military campaigns as
judged necessary, as well as unilaterally launching pre-emptive nuclear
war against nations that the Bush Administration judges may be enemies
who might, someday, make weapons of mass destruction, or nuclear weapons,
and attack the U.S. or it's allies. The Bush Administration reserves the
right to make the judgements.
The Bush Administration made a judgement to launch a pre-emptive war against
Iraq in 2003, threatening to use nuclear weapons. This was an illegal
war, not approved by the United Nations. At the time, and since, there
has been a massive amount of testimony and evidence that George Bush and
members of his Administration deliberately, and repeatedly lied to the
American people, the Senate and to the world to justify the war. They
are unrepentant, and continue to slaughter, imprison and torture thousands
of Iraqis.
The next U.S. pre-emptive war could be against Iran, and/or Syria. Both
have been mentioned as potential targets by Bush, as has North Korea if
it dares to try and make nuclear weapons.
President Bush while in China on Nov 16, praised Taiwan's alleged freedom,
thus deliberately insulting his hosts. He warned that the U.S. would defend
Taiwan (still regarded by the U.S. and the world as a Chinese province)
if China used military force against it. The Pentagon regards the China-Taiwan
dispute as a nuclear flash point, and there is little doubt that the U.S.
would use nuclear weapons in any war with China.
From the following record, and George Bush's actions and statements, we
know what to expect.
Hopefully this should encourage people to work to keep New Zealand nuclear-free,
and encourage other countries to adopt this step toward a nuclear weapons-free
world.
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A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS:
From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan
Compiled by Zoltan Grossman
(revised 09/20/01)
Grossman:
Killing Civilians
U.S. military spending ($343 billion in the
year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of the next five highest nations
combined. Russia, which has the second largest military budget, spends
less than one-sixth what the United States does. Iraq, Libya, North Korea,
Cuba, Sudan, Iran, and Syria spend $14.4 billion combined; Iran accounts
for 52 percent of this total.
The following is a partial list of U.S. military
interventions from 1890 to 1999. This guide does NOT include demonstration
duty by military police, mobilizations of the National Guard, offshore
shows of naval strength, reinforcements of embassy personnel, the use
of non-Defense Department personnel (such as the Drug Enforcement Agency),
military exercises, non-combat mobilizations (such as replacing postal
strikers), the permanent stationing of armed forces, covert actions where
the U.S. did not play a command and control role, the use of small hostage
rescue units, most uses of proxy troops, U.S. piloting of foreign warplanes,
foreign disaster assistance, military training and advisory programs not
involving direct combat, civic action programs, and many other military
activities.
Continue.....for the list with nuclear threats noted.
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