ttlefield nuclear weapons, and don’t even seem to care that the terrorist regime in Iran may be able to mass-produce nukes much sooner than anyone expected — maybe in a matter of months. Congress just lifted the decade-old ban on research on low-yield battlefield nuclear weapons, and authorized $15 million for research on a nuclear “bunker buster” that could be used against targets buried far too deep for current weapons to reach,cheap toms shoes. For all the hyperventilating by the Dems and the media, you’d think Gen. Jack D. Ripper was chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Teddy Kennedy objected, saying, “You’re either for nuclear war or you’re not. Either you want to make it easier to start using nuclear weapons or you don’t.” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said, “This bill is a declaration that America is about to launch a nuclear-arms race in the world again.” Advertisement At the mere mention of the word “nuclear,” all the Aunt Pittypats in our media got a collective case of the vapors. The L.A. Times’s Robert Scheer wrote, “Having failed to stop a gang of marauders armed with nothing more intimidating than box cutters, the U.S. is now using the “war on terror” to pursue a long-held hawkish Republican dream of a “winnable nuclear war,” as the president’s father memorably described it to me in a 1980 Times interview. In such a scenario, nukes can be preemptively used against a much weaker enemy — millions of dead civilians, widespread environmental devastation and centuries of political blowback be damned.” Kennedy, Durbin, and Scheer haven’t had a new thought since the Cold War ended. No one is planning the “winnable nuclear war” Scheer describes, preemptive or otherwise. To the contrary, the Pentagon plan is to research and develop weapons that could be used against otherwise impervious targets while avoiding massive casualties and destruction. The president’s National Security Strategy, released last September, affirmed our right to strike — even with nuclear weapons — to preempt the use of such weapons against us. What the liberal handwringers don’t understand is the application of this doctrine by the technologically enabled American military. President Bush, in his speech on the USS Lincoln, explained that we now have the capability to destroy despotic regimes without destroying the people and the nations they oppress. Precision low-yield nuclear weapons link the strategy of preemption to a capacity for applying these fearsome weapons without destroying peoples or nations. Moreover, even as we continue to focus the effects of our more capable weapons away from civilian targets, our enemies are doing just the opposite. Arms race, Senator Durbin? Yes,tomsoutletsaleonlinecheap.com, there is an arms race going on. Terrorist nations are desperate to get nuclear weapons, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of U.S. research on battlefield nukes. Iran’s entry into the terrorist nuclear-arms race does not signal that it is competing against the pace of developing American arms. Gen. Chuck Horner — air boss in Gulf War I — said in his postwar memoir that we taught the Islamic fundamentalists an important lesson in 1991: You can’t beat America without using WMD. The Iraq campaign has reinforced that lesson. Saddam was involved in terrorism. The mullahs in Teheran are too. We are, right now, fighting Iran on several fronts. Their agents are fomenting unrest in Iraq, doing their best to prevent democracy from taking hold. Hezbollah, Hamas, and many other terrorist groups are operating with Iran’s help — even under their direction — in the Middle East and elsewhere. Al Qaeda fugitives are hiding there, and may be operating from there. The indefinite postponement of the National Security Council meeting on Iran (scheduled for last Thursday) is not a good sign. The State Department and the CIA are muddling again, and while they muddle, the mullahs build nukes. President Bush needs to turn his attention to Teheran soon — very soon. Because the mullahs can’t beat us — or even deter us Related articles: http://www.mi2ave.com/user/login/ http://www.sxhzz.com/E_Type.asp?E_typeid=11 http://www.xian-today.com/thread-696992-1-1.html