OT: Who is Who? Was: Anthrax Vaccine Weighed At Denver's BighornCenter for Public Policy

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Hi y'all,

 

Lemme give you my edumocated opinion of this .. and that's all it is.

Howsomever, I spent a few years as a Foreign Area/Political-Military

Officer, negotiated with lots of friends who are now enemies and enemies

who are now friends - so I sorta understand the workings of gummits.

 

> Wow... good article.. and, Florida just had a second case of

> Anthrax.........the person's been hospitalized, don't know if it's

> terrorism or not, but the FBI's been brought in..............

 

I'll be real surprised if it is international terrorism .. might well be

some crazy doing crap like spiking the aspirin bottles or whatever - if

I were an international terrorist, I wouldn't blow my cover,

intelligence efforts and surveillance just to infect a few folks - I'd

do it right.

 

> I have a question for anyone, especially Butch <?> - he may know...

> which side is CHINA on??????????? Seems kinda important......and I

> haven't heard anything one way or another...

 

China is on China's side now .. China will go with the flow while

keeping in mind their own national interests - which is exactly what the

USA and every other country does.

 

Gotta figure what China has to gain or lose by taking sides. First,

they have a Moslem population that scares crap out of them .. they can

keep the Buddhists down cause they are pacifists .. worst thing a

Buddhist gonna do is burn himself up in public as a protest - but

Moslems be a different animal so they watch them closely. This forces

them to have to support anti-terrorist movements but not anti-Moslem

movements .. even though they discourage religion, they know they can't

be all that effective.

 

China wants western technology .. means they can't upset the west -

gotta act half way civilized - so we can count on them going along with

the program .. not too much involvement but hanging on the fringes and

making politically correct statements from time to time.

 

China is now a bit concerned cause this thing has caused Uncle Sam and

Russia to come closer .. Putin may decide to play ball with us in a big

way. Heard him say something like .. when terrorists can strike the

GREATEST NATION on earth, we must be concerned .. these are new words

for sure coming from a Russian. How this affects the Chinese is yet to

be seen but they surely don't want a US supported Russian Bear on their

flanks .. they have always tried to stroke the bear .. but now the Bear

seems to be cuddling with Uncle Sam. Will he continue to cuddle? Who

knows .. such coalitions create strange bedfellows .. but I'd guess that

Russia realizes that they don't need buffer states like the USSR had so

there is really no reason to not join the rest of the world and grow.

 

Look at Pakistan now - Dictator President General Pervez Musharraf is

now walking a tight wire and that wimp ain't no circus star. His

fanatics are pushing him on one side and Uncle Sugar on the other .. he

has come out now with some weird crap - says the Northern Alliance

cannot fill a void left by the Talaban .. horse manure! That's our plan

and we're not gonna let that idjit change our minds just so he can save

his own butt - if he goes down, he goes down .. and that might happen in

the next 48 hours. You might ask ... what then? Well .. if he goes

down I reckon it will be his Islamic fundamentalist supporting

intelligence service that takes him down .. that COULD then make them

just another of the many targets that the civilized world has now

determined to strike .. President Bush is clear that we don't have to

only increase security at home to preclude terrorists from doing their

" Evil " deeds .. but we gotta go to them and those who harbor them and

strike them there .. good thinking says I.

 

Of maybe more important is the agreement twixt the USA and Russia to use

limited power TACTICAL nukes IF it becomes necessary. Is this a bluff?

Maybe! If I were a Talaban chief I'd take it as being serious. Limited

power tactical nukes are not what most folks think .. they are not like

the devastating weapons fired over islands in tests or in Japan during

WWII .. they are nuke capable rounds fired from artillery pieces - they

have a very limited range and are low yield. If fired to explode high

up there is no fallout .. can't have fallout unless you disturb the

soil. What you can do with a nuke is .. regardless of how high it is

fired - totally destroy communications with Electromagnetic Pulse - it

literally melts the wires on common equipment - vehicles too. The idea

of using a nuke is more psychological than it is terrible .. you can lob

a very high explosive conventional warhead from a 155MM howitzer and do

more damage.

 

Another interesting point is the Talibans threat to go into Uzbekistan.

If they do that, the Turks will be on them like ugly on a warthog cause

the Uzbeks are a Turkic people and Turkey takes care of it's own.

 

Finally, I think two important questions remain. Will the USA go after

Iraq? I think they will. Will the weak Islamic countries of the world

be forced to pay attention to the radicals in their country and agree

that this is a Holy War? Maybe. Is this really a Holy War? In order

to be politically correct - I'll say it is not but there are those who

want to make it appear so. Maybe we should tell it like it is and say

that this PHASE of the operation to eliminate terrorist centers is

devoted to Islamic terrorists because it is the Islamic terrorists who

are acting stupid now .. the next phases - who knows? Gonna be

interesting. ;-p

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

> Thanks for the article, Chris, appreciate it.

>

> Hugs,

>

> Marilyn

>

> chrisziggy wrote:

>

> > Anthrax vaccine weighed

> > But think tank won't offer it to employees

> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/america_under_attack/article/0,1299,DR

> MN_664_840523,00.html

> > By Jim Erickson, News Science Writer

> >

> > October 6, 2001