Brigadier Kelly shocks and awes: “War on terror 'a tactic' ...

Rumsfeld defends study on burrowing nuclear arms at International Herald Tribune.

Rumsfeld said more than 70 countries have programs to build facilities underground, and have available to them equipment that can, in a single day, dig out of rock a chamber the size of a basketball court.

"We can't go in there and get at things in solid rock underground," Rumsfeld said. "The only thing we have is very large, very dirty nuclear weapons. So the choice is: Do we want to have nothing and only a large, dirty nuclear weapon, or would we rather have something in between? That is the issue."

He said the administration wanted see if it was feasible to develop weapons casings hard enough to penetrate "not with a large nuclear weapon, but with either a conventional capability or a very small nuclear capability in the event that the United States of America at some point down the road decided they wanted to undertake that type of project."

"It seems to me studying it makes all the sense in the world," Rumsfeld said.

He is one hot dude. Why are 70 countries trying to hide from him? They shouldn't be doing that. He ought to get tooled up to give one of them a darn good thrashing, as a lesson in the merits of co-operation.

'There is no war on terror'

Outspoken DPP takes on Blair and Reid over fear-driven legal response to threat

Clare Dyer, legal editor
Wednesday January 24, 2007
The Guardian

The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a "war on terror" and calling for a "culture of legislative restraint" in passing laws to deal with terrorism.

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