NO LIMIT ON WEAPONS: Lawmaker backs nuclear testing

[NVMojo]

It's BAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKK!!! Fire on our brains!!!!

SALT LAKE CITY -- Though Rep. Chris Cannon believes the cancer that took his father's life in part was because of radioactive fallout from atomic-bomb testing in Nevada, he is supporting resumption of nuclear tests.

"To the degree that we have people blow up our skyscrapers and hiding underground, we have to have the ability to respond to them," Cannon, R-Utah, said Tuesday in a Salt Lake Tribune interview. "I don't ever expect we'll end up using a bunker buster, but the other side needs to know that we have them."

He said the tests should not be limited to a bunker busting nuclear weapon, but include the existing nuclear stockpile to ensure the weapons have not deteriorated.

"What we really want here is deterrence. We want people to get out of their holes and into the democratic process, and we want to scare them out," he said. "We need to give them the fear of destruction and hopefully, over time, people will recognize that the democratic system works."

On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, reintroduced legislation that would force environmental reviews before nuclear weapons testing can restart at the Nevada Test Site.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Mar-10-Thu-2005/news/26037844.html

[Coventina]

1. Sooooo, what he's saying is

"I don't care if we all poison ourselves and die horrible deaths, as long as we die knowing that we have the ability to send OTHER people to horrible deaths."

Nice.

[asjr]

4. Repubs want to test that fire and brimstone before

they go to Hell.

[Straight Shooter]

2. 1. to the degree we have people blow up skyscrapers; 2. hiding underground

1. Reference to Osama
2. Reference to Saddam

Transparent as glass.

[Dufaeth]

3. "We need to give them the fear of destruction and hopefully,

over time, people will recognize that the democratic system works."

Best quote ever!

[atommom]

5. Proving once again that R's have no sense of irony.

"We need to give them the fear of destruction and hopefully, over time, people will recognize that the democratic system works."

:wtf:

[underpants]

6. ?Exaclty how effective do they really have to be?

Won't one pretty much do the job?

[kysrsoze]

7. "I don't ever expect we'll end up using a bunker buster"

Ummm...haven't we already used the ones we have, complete with DU?

[Rose Siding]

8. Short sighted fool

ANY weapon we have, "the other side" will have as well.

[bvar22]

9. This is just sooooo wrong!

:-(

[wasp in a wig]

10. So people who are willing to blow themselves up

... are going to be scared of bunker busters ?

& you don't want anyone else to have weapons like this.. but you're going to try to frighten and intimidate them anyway ? -- and that's supposed to make them want democracy ? And they'll love you for it ?

Keep on truckin' in wonderland, sweetheart.


.. and by the way, what does it say for democracy when people like this get elected anyway ?

[AndyTiedye]

11. It Says That the Fundies own the voting machinez.

> and by the way, what does it say for democracy when people like this get elected anyway ?


 ...committed to delivering the electoral votes of Ohio to the President."
 Walden O'Dell, C.E.O.

[RuleofLaw]

12. Kind of ironic

that the US is doing this and at the same time arguing with Iran over nuclear weapons production. Part of the Non-proliferation treaty is, that countries without the bomb will not pursue it (Iran) while in return, countries with the bomb (USA) will dismantle already existing arsenals, so in the end, ideally, we will have a nuclear weapon free world.

Guess the US want it to be that only we have the bomb. I am sure Iran is OK with that.

[Zerex71]

13. Yep, perfect Rethuglican.

I mean, you can tell by the incredibly lucid logic he uses -- that showing how big our collective d*ck is -- is going to make the "evildurs" smoke themselves out of their hiding places.

[Mithras61]

14. Can I translate this tidbit out of Rethuglican into English?

"We want people to get out of their holes and into the democratic process, and we want to scare them out," he said. "We need to give them the fear of destruction and hopefully, over time, people will recognize that the democratic system works."

That sounds an awful lot like "We're gonna see to it that they have a democracy that meets our needs if we have to cram it down their ungrateful throats!"