mich0127
10-16-2004, 09:08 AM
Pass this on…
What would it mean for a nuclear suitcase bomb to go off in one of our cities? One terrorism expert, Paul Williams, has a pretty clear idea.
A ripping wave would blast through the city at 670 miles per hour. The buildings that survived the melting heat would be twisted like pretzels by the force of the incredible wind. No one within 740 feet of the blast could hope to survive; within minutes everything within three square miles would be destroyed. Over 300 thousand people would die instantly. Half a million or more would suffer severe burns and permanent blindness. Two to three hundred thousand people would be killed or injured by the deadly hail of debris and shattered glass.
The survivors of the initial blast would be exposed to intense bursts of ionizing radiation that would devastate their immune system. Those exposed would die in a matter of days. Then comes the fallout … the contaminants … which would then expose those in the area to deadly radiation poisoning, with 50 percent dying in the subsequent weeks and months. If this happened in a place like New York City, it would be an uninhabitable wasteland for hundreds of years. Then comes the other stuff such as the end of our culture, the crippling of our economy, the loss of millions of jobs, and an unprecedented health care crisis. Within days, Americans and much of the world would be tossed into a depression from which it would take hundreds of years to recover.
The death-hell-and-the-grave terrorist deep weeds in which we’re currently embroiled is no game. We have jihadic death jockeys who want to kill us … people with whom there is no bargaining. None. Yes, while John Kerry enjoys botox, spray-on tans and manicures, Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi, Al Sadr and their ilk are talking about multiple nuclear attacks in our comfortable cul-de-sacs.
And they’re just a little more determined than some caricature of an immoral, lazy, stupid, fat American. Matter of fact, according to terrorist experts, there is a high probability that they already have nukes with our names on them in our neighborhoods.
The description of the potential apocalyptic effects of a nuclear bomb going off in one of our major cities is not the hokey ravings of a doom and gloom prophet but a real description of a real threat which we really face from Muslim terrorists.
I fear that we don’t really “get” the level of historic malevolence these Quran-fueled terrorists have for us. Which makes it extremely ridiculous, as far as I’m concerned, that we are currently concerned about whether or not Bush can act like Howdy Doody during a debate for a television-brain-dead audience.
Let’s get down to business, re-elect President Bush and get back to the task of taking out terrorists and destroying their nuclear dreams wherever and whenever they are found. Ridding our planet of the terrorist rodents is the main issue on the ticket, that is, if we’d like to continue living business as usual. And Bush/Cheney grasps this. Dangerously, Kerry does not.
Look, I don’t have a “W” tattooed on my backside, but he does have what Kerry lacks: he hates the damnable terrorists, is intent on eradicating them and determined to establish liberty where there has been none, whatsoever.
What would it mean for a nuclear suitcase bomb to go off in one of our cities? One terrorism expert, Paul Williams, has a pretty clear idea.
A ripping wave would blast through the city at 670 miles per hour. The buildings that survived the melting heat would be twisted like pretzels by the force of the incredible wind. No one within 740 feet of the blast could hope to survive; within minutes everything within three square miles would be destroyed. Over 300 thousand people would die instantly. Half a million or more would suffer severe burns and permanent blindness. Two to three hundred thousand people would be killed or injured by the deadly hail of debris and shattered glass.
The survivors of the initial blast would be exposed to intense bursts of ionizing radiation that would devastate their immune system. Those exposed would die in a matter of days. Then comes the fallout … the contaminants … which would then expose those in the area to deadly radiation poisoning, with 50 percent dying in the subsequent weeks and months. If this happened in a place like New York City, it would be an uninhabitable wasteland for hundreds of years. Then comes the other stuff such as the end of our culture, the crippling of our economy, the loss of millions of jobs, and an unprecedented health care crisis. Within days, Americans and much of the world would be tossed into a depression from which it would take hundreds of years to recover.
The death-hell-and-the-grave terrorist deep weeds in which we’re currently embroiled is no game. We have jihadic death jockeys who want to kill us … people with whom there is no bargaining. None. Yes, while John Kerry enjoys botox, spray-on tans and manicures, Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi, Al Sadr and their ilk are talking about multiple nuclear attacks in our comfortable cul-de-sacs.
And they’re just a little more determined than some caricature of an immoral, lazy, stupid, fat American. Matter of fact, according to terrorist experts, there is a high probability that they already have nukes with our names on them in our neighborhoods.
The description of the potential apocalyptic effects of a nuclear bomb going off in one of our major cities is not the hokey ravings of a doom and gloom prophet but a real description of a real threat which we really face from Muslim terrorists.
I fear that we don’t really “get” the level of historic malevolence these Quran-fueled terrorists have for us. Which makes it extremely ridiculous, as far as I’m concerned, that we are currently concerned about whether or not Bush can act like Howdy Doody during a debate for a television-brain-dead audience.
Let’s get down to business, re-elect President Bush and get back to the task of taking out terrorists and destroying their nuclear dreams wherever and whenever they are found. Ridding our planet of the terrorist rodents is the main issue on the ticket, that is, if we’d like to continue living business as usual. And Bush/Cheney grasps this. Dangerously, Kerry does not.
Look, I don’t have a “W” tattooed on my backside, but he does have what Kerry lacks: he hates the damnable terrorists, is intent on eradicating them and determined to establish liberty where there has been none, whatsoever.