Nuclear weapons - Who do you trust with them (Kerry or *)

[The Straight Story]

When we go to the polls this November, that is one of the questions we should encourage people to have on their minds.

4 years of war, death, and destruction so far. Even if one feels Bush was justified in Afghanistan and Iraq, even if one supports the war against the terrorists, one should think long and hard about who we as a people want holding the nuclear codes.

* appearing as a cowboy to some may be romantic, even thrilling ("He done showed them terrorists good") but we have seen that both bushy boys have no qualms about going to war.

Kerry saw war and spoke out against it strongly, he saw what it did to the common man involved in it (whereas the politicians and their brood sat safely thousands of miles away letting the little folk die for their causes).

I don't care one bit about the whole swift boat thing or if bush got strings pulled, none of it matters. What matters is that bush was not there, kerry was, bush did not speak out for anyone, kerry did. I don't care if bush got deferrments from friends of his dad - what he did not do is volunteer to go and fight. I don't care if kerry jumped at the chance to go and kill someone in vietnam, I don't think he wanted to go but he did what was required of him as an American in a time of war - and when he got back he did what was required of him as a patriot, he spoke out against it. He did the right thing both times, bush never did.

So when the chips are down who do we trust? bush would not care if he sent most of us to our deaths in a mega war, as long as he was ok. I trust kerry - a man who went to war as required he do, and a man who came back and fought another war against those who would send the avg joe to his death while they sat on their asses.

I know the answer is obvious to the question I posed to those of us here on DU - I just wonder how obvious it is to the rest of the people...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why isn't the whole country totally freaked out

by the fact that George Walker Bush has access to the nuclear launch codes? It's like giving a bazooka to a four-year-old.

[sweetheart]

2. I trust no human, all nuclear weapons should be dismantled

In a few decades, all living knowledge of the horror of nuclear
weapons will be forgotten. A generation will have 10,000 thingies
in storage, without any knowledge of what they really are, except
old videos and hitler-era black and whites. Then those future kids
might decide that "we" were wrong not to use them, and that they
save lives on the battlefield.

It is OUR evil, those bombs, and it is OUR collective responsibility
to see them taken away from our children. They are expensive and
waste good money that could be better spent on healthcare, AIDS-care,
medicine, road building, schools and so many positive things. It
costs us trillions to have a toxic arsenal that does nothing.

A land of brave people might be the first wise ones to put down the
nuclear ace forever, and settle their differences without war. For
all the nukes out there, the lessons they teach are in short supply.
NEVER use them. They are a waste, a total and utter waste.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. True.

But in the meantime, until that can be done, we should at least see to it that whoever has the power to use the damn things isn't a freaking psycho.

[Cat Atomic]

3. Look, if you can't trust Bush with a Segway...

... you certainly can't trust him with the button.

[camero]

4. A cokehead with his finger on the button

Not good.

[Djinn]

5. neither

[Booster]

6. I have always had the feeling that nothing would please

Bush more than to set off a nuclear bomb - I believe he would wet his pants and jump and down with glee. If he liked watching frogs get blown up with firecrackers, a bomb would be his ultimate wish.

[Kanary]

8. NOBODY. Sanity must prevail, and rid the planet of this ugliness!