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From: alain@elevia.uucp (W.A.Simon)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,trial.talk.politics.peace,alt.conspiracy,alt.desert-storm
Subject: Re: The Nuclear Option
Keywords: mass destruction, anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.180015.7966@elevia.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 91 18:00:15 GMT
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In <1991Feb11.204302.27201@meteor.wisc.edu> foley@phoebus.meteor.wisc.edu (Jonathan Foley) writes:
>In article <1991Feb11.172446.7039@engin.umich.edu>, bombach@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Matthew Bombach) writes:
>|> >
>|> >I think that in the event of chemical warfare attacks, the US might
>|> >very well drop a tactical nuke on one of the Republican Guard units.
>|> >I'm pretty sure the U.S. population would support such a move - I'm
>|> >not so sure of world opinion, but I suspect the reaction would be
>|> >negative, but not overwhelmingly so.
>|> As my mother used to say "Two wrongs don't make a right."
>|> If the U.S. dropped a tactical nuke, I thinked G.Bush should be tried as a
>|> war criminal.
>|> Paul Bombach
>Just a thought...with the typical Washington 'doublespeak' going on,
>I was wondering what George and his friends would call a nuclear
>bomb used on Iraqi troops?
>I think I know - a 'tactical fission liberation device'.
>This goes very well with his 'revenue enhancement' instead of 'new
>taxes' crap.

	the vocable already exist, let's try combining it:

		active measure of dissuasion (AMD)
		radical dissuasion initiative (RDI)
		threat eradication measure (TEM)
		last warning promotion (LWP)
		limited capability anihilation (LCA)
		tactical balance redressment (TBR)
		positive insertion measure (PIM)
		enhanced retaliatory response (ERR)
		peace making offering (PMO)
		show of force (SOF)
		display of intentions (DOI)
		war-ending resource application of tactical hardship (WRATH)
		final solution (FS)
		free sample (FS)

	in the Nixon years it would have been:

		The other thing
		The unthinkable
		What we don't want to do
		We never have and never will

	Reagan would probably have said:

		This other voodoo you do
		Whatchamacallit
		This new toy you told me about
		Let's bomb this guy in Lybia, what's his name
		Tactical what?

>Jonathan Foley                       foley@meteor.wisc.edu 

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Alain
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