Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit

[hobo]eclipse · Mar 29, 2008, 02:22 PM

Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit

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Last Friday, Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council -- the elite group that implements the decisions of the autocratic inner circle -- is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors," one of the kingdom's leading newspapers, Okaz, reports. The German-based dpa news service relayed the paper's story.

Simple prudence -- or ominous timing? We noted here last week that an American attack on Iran was far more likely -- and more imminent -- than most people suspect. We pointed to the mountain of evidence for this case gathered by scholar William R. Polk, one of the top aides to John Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and to other indicators of impending war. The story by Okaz -- which would not have appeared in the tightly controlled dictatorship without approval from the top -- is yet another, very weighty piece of evidence laid in the scales toward a new, horrendous conflict.

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Bush has eviscerated 40 years' worth of arms control treaties; officially "normalized" the use of nuclear weapons, even against non-nuclear states; rewarded outlaw proliferators like India, Israel and Pakistan; and is now destroying the last and most effective restraint on the spread of nuclear weapons: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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So the NPT is dead. As with the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Constitution, it now means only what Bush says it means. Force of arms, not rule of law, is the new world order. The attack on Iran is coming….

The nuclear sectarians have waited decades for this moment. Such a chance may never come again. Will they let it pass, when with just a word, in just twelve hours, they can see their god rising in a pillar of fire over Persia?

So we have nuclear subs in the region, and Cheney is visiting countries he last visited before the Iraq invasion.

OmegaRED · Mar 29, 2008, 03:55 PM

War with Iran? Not happening while Bush is in office...

Matth · Mar 30, 2008, 03:49 PM

Striking with nukes, even small ones, seems inconceivable without serious provocation. The nuclear threat is more likely from shattered facilities, when brinksmanship escalates into cruise missile or bomber strike with bunker busters.

Islam has taken over from the commies as "the evil empire", though Vladimir Putin has undermined confidence in "the new Russia".

[hobo]eclipse · Mar 30, 2008, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Matth

The nuclear threat is more likely from shattered facilities, when brinksmanship escalates into cruise missile or bomber strike with bunker busters.

Exactly, the sub just shows signs of aggression and a continued buildup.