Although piling up a galaxy of arms of mass destruction themselves, the USA threaten North Corea, Iran, Libya and other countries with direct military invasion should they not destroy their meagre stocks of WMD's. On the other hand, countries friendly to the USA, like Israel, could amass whatever kind of weapons they please. Let me comment an article that appeared a while ago, that indicates the real danger of low intensity nuclear warfare:
"Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/082203G.shtml.

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Although piling up a galaxy of arms of mass destruction themselves, the USA threaten North Corea, Iran, Libya and other countries with direct military invasion should they not destroy their meagre stocks of WMD's. On the other hand, countries friendly to the USA, like Israel, could amass whatever kind of weapons they please. Let me comment an article that appeared a while ago, that indicates the real danger of low intensity nuclear warfare:
"Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/082203G.shtml.

It is a rather lengthy article, but I'd urge you all to read it carefully. Today, after "Iraqi sovereignty", more than ever, the real criminality of both Gulf Wars is unfolding. It is about the use of Depleted Uranium in all kinds of weaponry employed by the US, classified as illegal weapons of mass destruction by a United Nations resolution (I know, who cares anyway?), the resulting environmental contamination for millions of years after its been deployed (4.5 billion (!) years according to Dr. Helen Caldicott), and the lethal consequences for those exposed to it even during a short term, not to speak of the civilian populations whose environments and sometimes entire countries have literally been converted into nuclear dustbins (the Balkans, Iraq, and testing grounds in the very US).

While you read the article, please think of "human rights", "freedom", "liberty", "democracy", "beacon of hope", "prosperity", "the pursuit of happiness", "the free world" and all the other shells of ammunition from the ideological arsenal of weapons of brain destruction our remaining neurons keep getting shot at minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, until we happily and freely fade away in clouds of radioactive dust ...

A Venezuelan friend recently asked me, in a mixture of hope and desperation, if I thought the North American population would finally be waking up to the challenges of our times when confronted with the atrocities committed by the Bush Junta abroad and the trashing of their famous and beloved constitution "at home", supposing this would make them feel the heat under their very own bottoms. I responded that I was afraid, with the honourable exception of perhaps a couple of hundred of thousands of people well aware and concerned of what has been and is going on, that the vast majority of Americans did not know, nor care, that the world consists of somewhat more than the United States of America, and that as long as they were not significantly disturbed in their parasitic-paralytic consumer lives, they would not even mind nor realize living in a Police and Surveillance State, as it didn't have an effect onto their unhistorical, unpolitical lives anyway.

Is my assessment way off the mark?