seeing the following two headlines, side by side, was a bit unsettling.
partly, because bush doesn’t admit many mistakes. but also because of the whole credibility issue. i didn’t believe iraq was much of a threat before the war began. hello? we have assloads of nukes. whatever saddam had (or obviously didn’t have) in his arsenal, was beside the point. unless the american people needed to be duped into launching a military offensive on the country.
so when bush says something is a real threat, i say, “nukes.” there is no way in hell that any country would be dumb enough to be a threat to us. until we start invading countries, and that’s when every country and their mother seeks nuclear weapons technology.
do you see how this works? it’s called deterrence. any country without nuclear weapons will be democratized. or, as i like to call it: spreading freedom with a gun.

