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Wisdom of a Whale
by
Tom Mysiewicz
"Q. What's the
difference between
Rush Limbaugh and a
whale--10 I.Q.
points, 100 pounds or
a sports jacket?
A. A sports
jacket--the whale can
always lose weight
and Rush can go to
school."
Grafitti at an
American truck stop
Rush Limbaugh's daily
neo-conservative
"Truth in
Broadcasting"
diatribe aimed at
whipping Americans
into a war frenzy may
have finally come
close to a truth.
In a 2/19/03 show
equating antiwar
protests almost
exclusively with
"communists" (and a
few dupes) and saying
the left "was hanging
on by its fingernails
over a deep
chasm...and would be
in even worse shape
when, after the war,
the truth (of the
WMDs Saddam actually
had) finally came
out" Rush actually
began to make some
sense.
Rush blamed Saddam's
WMD capacity on
France's Chirac and
Germany, to a lesser
extent. He claimed
these Europeans had
secretly supplied
Saddam with deadly
weapons, in
contravention of U.N.
regulations, and that
one reason they
didn't want a war was
because the full evil
of their activities
would be revealed.
America would
discover--when we
beat the baddies and
captured all that
incriminating
evidence the
inspectors just can't
seem to find--that
Chirac and all the
other "old Europe"
bad guys had been
just opposed our
noble war for selfish
reasons.
There may be a gem of
truth in this. The
Israeli cities of Nes
Ziona and Dimona are
widely believed to be
hotbeds of
chemical-biological-nuclear
warfare projects. The
Federation of
American Scientists (FAS)
website is chock full
of Israeli nuclear
weapons development
information. Even
published reports of
Israeli work with
Americium-243 and
isotopes presuppose
the ability to
produce significant
amounts of Plutonium
(the fuel of a
nuclear warhead).
Recent reports have
surfaced of a speech
given by an Israeli
academician claiming
European cities are
targeted by Israeli
nukes and that the
Europeans deserved to
be nuked for their
part in the
holocaust.
In fact, the major
reason Mid East
countries desire
weapons of mass
destruction is to
PROTECT themselves
from Israeli use of
such weapons. As
America and the USSR
found during the Cold
War, mutually assured
destruction can be a
great deterrent to
war. And, during the
last half of the
Second World War,
Hitler failed to use
large stocks of nerve
gas (which the
Germans invented)
because of the
possibility of Allied
mass killings of
German civilians,
such as occurred in
Dresden.
As for "old Europe"
it is both threatened
by a direct Israeli
attack with WMDs--say
for meddling in the
Palestinian
"situation" or not
making desired trade
concessions--and by
the indirect
destruction of its
economy should the
Israelis somehow set
off a conflagration
that would destroy or
make inaccessible Mid
East oil supplies.
That the Israelis do
not come clean and
make a declaration of
all the WMDs they
actually have is
still more ominous.
As Rush Limbaugh
correctly pointed out
in a discussion of
North Korea during
the same show:
"More dangerous than
Kim are nations that
HAVE nuclear weapons
but don't tell anyone
(like Saddam, he
intimated) because
they intend to use
them."
How about, like the
Israelis as well?
Bush's strategy,
which will leave
Europe at the mercy
of the harsh
Likkudites in Israel
and in the U.S.
Government, cannot be
attractive to them.
Rush, and other
neo-cons, I'd like to
offer a solution to
this highly-dangerous
impasse:
Station U.S. troops
and guarantee
(jointly, with
Russia) nuclear
protection of Israel
in its 1967 borders,
have U.N. supervised
destruction of ALL
illegal Israeli
weapons of mass
destruction, and
create a Palestinian
state as per the Camp
David accords. Then,
begin the systematic
destruction of WMDs
held by other Mid
Eastern nations,
including Iraq, with
help from our
European and other
allies.
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