Tweety is clueless about the cost of using a nuclear weapon, and he has a history of seeing nuclear war as inevitable. Look it up. Tweety supporters do not believe it? OK, I will show you.
"Trump Has Been Thinking About Nuclear War for Decades. Here’s Why That’s Scary."
He seems to think it’s inevitable.
David Corn, Aug. 11, 2017 2:05 PM
"In a 1984 interview with the Washington Post, Trump, then merely a 38-year-old celebrity developer, shared his fantasies: He was hoping to build the “greatest hotel in the world” and construct the world’s “tallest” building in New York City—and one day become the United States’ chief negotiator with the Soviet Union for nuclear weapons. In between boasts of how rich and famous he was, Trump declared that he could negotiate a great nuclear arms deal with Moscow and said he wanted to head the US arms negotiating squad. “He says he has never acted on his nuclear concern,” the newspaper reported."
OK, a good foresight. 1984? This is an ironic year for a George Orwellian President.
"Trump’s remarks to these reporters were not just a gimmick cooked up to impress the scribblers. Trump apparently truly believed that he could parachute in and land a great deal with the Soviets. He took steps two years later to make this happen. In 1986, according to Bernard Lown, a cardiologist who invented the defibrillator and who received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for joining with a prominent Soviet physician to promote nuclear arms reduction, Trump met with him to discuss nuclear weapons. Lown recently told the Hollywood Reporter that Trump informed him at that meeting that he would be pushing President Ronald Reagan to appoint him to concoct a nuclear disarmament deal with the Soviet Union. Lown recounted the conversation:
[Trump] said to me, “I hear you met with Gorbachev, and you had a long interview with him, and you’re a doctor, so you have a good assessment of who he is.” So I asked, “Why would you want to know?” And he responded, “I intend to call my good friend Ronnie,” meaning Reagan, “to make me a plenipotentiary ambassador for the United States with Gorbachev.” Those are the words he used. And he said he would go to Moscow and he’d sit down with Gorbachev, and then he took his thumb and he hit the desk and he said, “And within one hour the Cold War would be over!” I sat there dumbfounded. “Who is this self-inflated individual? Is he sane or what?”"
The conclusion is terrifying.
"It’s clear: Trump has been fretting about nuclear destruction for many years. But for all his concern, he seemingly has not done much to educate himself on the weighty subject. During the presidential campaign, he uttered several troubling comments about nuclear arms. At a Republican primary debate, he botched a question about the nuclear triad—a sign he did not understand the most basic information about the structure of the US nuclear command. As a candidate, Trump noted that he would support allowing Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia to obtain nuclear weapons—that is, he was advocating nuclear proliferation—and that he would be open to using the ultimate weapons against ISIS and in other conflicts. He asserted that when it came to national security, he had “a very good brain.”
These days, his cavalier talk of “fire and fury” in response to Kim Jong-un’s reckless remarks about Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons show that Trump doesn’t bother to consider the difficult and vexing nuances of nuclear diplomacy. (Attack North Korea, and North Korea could well destroy Seoul with or without nuclear weapons.) Since the days of the Cold War, Trump has repeatedly signaled that he fears that nuclear war may be inescapable but that he also believes nuclear policy is an easy matter to master. At least for him. Each of these notions is frightening. Together, they can be terrifying."
"Sen. Lindsey Graham: Trump Says War With North Korea an Option"
by Erik Ortiz and Arata Yamamoto, 2 August 2017
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/sen-lindsey-graham-trump-says-war-north-korea-option-n788396
"Graham said that Trump won't allow the regime of Kim Jong Un to have an ICBM with a nuclear weapon capability to "hit America.""If there’s going to be a war to stop [Kim Jong Un], it will be over there. If thousands die, they’re going to die over there. They’re not going to die here. And He has told me that to my face," Graham said.
"And that may be provocative, but not really. When you're president of the United States, where does your allegiance lie? To the people of the United States," the senator said."
Those who serve Tweety in war "over there" as Lindsay Graham put it, will die for a bad cause/ The reason is that the war is not necessary and immoral. We have not been attacked.
I hope I am wrong that Tweety will go to war to improve his declining popularity. Tweety, you will get re-elected even if the economy keeps growing at 2.6 GDP and never 3.0, and if the stock market keeps climbing, so you don't need to worry about re-election.
Tweety knows money buys elections.
"Believe me!"
"Has Trump Threatened Nuclear War on North Korea?"
As President Trump threatens North Korea "with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen," the need for diplomacy is as urgent as ever, says veteran journalist Tim Shorrock 8 August 2017
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19731:Has-Trump-Threatened-Nuclear-War-on-North-Korea%3F
I am not sure who or what the "Real News" is in this case, but Lindsay Graham is an idiot, and should be ashamed for saying hat he said, we are going to have a war "over there." Even if he meant we are attacked first and must defend ourselves, it is NO SOLACE THAT THE WAR IS "OVER THERE!"
" . . .you do not hear a foreign minister from another country talk about having a war with North Korea. You do not hear a UN ambassador from another country talking about using military force. You do not hear a national security advisor from another country also talk about military force and you do not hear senators or lawmakers from other countries saying, "We're going to have a war over there and not over here," like Senator Lindsey Graham said last week. [OMG! LG really said that!] This is between the United States and North Korea and it should be up to the United States and the American people to resolve and create some kind of move toward peace and move away from this war talk.
AARON MATE: Yeah. Tim, speaking of war talk, you mentioned Lindsey Graham's comments. Let's just flesh out what those were. He said something to the effect of that the Trump administration might be forced to launch nuclear war saying that it has to choose basically between homeland security and regional stability. The implication was that he's going to choose homeland security.
TIM SHORROCK: Well, is he discounting the fact that the United States has 30,000 American soldiers in South Korea and 70 to 80,000 in Japan nearby within range of the North Korean missiles? I mean, any way would draw in US forces there and would lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, as well as, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Koreans and possibly Japanese. It was just an outrageous statement by Graham and really smacks of racism. Just to say, "Oh well, we don't really care because the war will be over there, not over here with us Americans." Asia's already seen enough war and particularly in Korea has too.
I think it's really, it's just imperative to find a way between what North Korea says and what the United States says to have some kind of accommodations, some way to begin talks. North Korea says it wants an end to the US hostile policy. That to me is the key. They said, "They will not negotiate nuclear weapons. They will not negotiate missiles until and unless the US drops its hostile policy." We could do some work on that here. Why does the United States maintain this hostile policy toward North Korea? What is it? How could that be changed? In what way could we adopt a less hostile policy and move North Korea to a situation where it doesn't feel threatened by the United States?
AARON MATE: Tim Shorrock, veteran reporter who's covered US-Korea relations for years. Thank you very much.
TIM SHORROCK: Thank you.
AARON MATE: Thank you for joining us on The Real News." [The "Real News?"]
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Lindsay Graham says the war will be "over there." I am certain Tweety agrees, and you will get no support from other nations if you pre-emptively strike North Korea. And Congress will be damned to hell if they do not stop you from going to war!
"Britain will 'NOT follow US into war if Donald Trump blasts Kim Jong-un's North Korea'"
THE UK will not become involved in any military strike against North Korea despite Donald Trump threatening to unleash “fire and fury” if threatened Kim Jong-un threatened the US, a Government insider has revealed.
By Nicole Stinson
PUBLISHED: 04:34, Fri, Aug 11, 2017 | UPDATED: 05:55, Fri, Aug 11, 2017
"A senior Government source has insisted the UK would go as far the United Nations when responding to threats from North Korea.
The insider told The Sun: “The Americans are more than capable of doing what they might want, or have to do, in the region without our help.”
US military chiefs have reportedly called on the Royal Air Force to aid an international espionage operation and send British spy planes to conduct surveillance over the Korean Peninsula.
Theresa May’s deputy has called for the de-escalation of tension between President Trump and the rogue state."
Even T. May sees how foolish Tweety is threatening North Korea.
The ONLY option is to negotiate peace after 62 years of Armistice Doesn't Tweety understand the old sage advice: "Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer!"? Even Tony Soprano knew this wisdom!
South Korea chooses not to die, even over there!
"South Korea in plea to avoid North Korea war after Trump's 'locked and loaded' comment"
A US military official says diplomacy is the US priority
Mythili Sampathkumar New York, 14 August 2017
