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From: gcf@panix.uucp (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,trial.talk.politics.peace,alt.conspiracy,alt.desert-storm
Subject: The Nuclear Option
Keywords: mass destruction, anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.025838.13793@panix.uucp>
Date: 7 Feb 91 02:58:38 GMT
Sender: gcf@panix.uucp (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: Beauty in the Beast
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Note that in recent days the Butch, Danforth, and more than one
of America's hochkommandatura have quite openly mused on the
thought of using nuclear weapons -- especially if things go badly.
And so far, they have not gone very well, outside of the media.

This is called a "trial baloon."
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