NUKE GINGRICH IS AT IT AGAIN

Well, there he goes again. Newt Gingrich wants us to believe a “sword of Damocles hangs over our heads.” Has wanted us to believe that since at least 2004, when he first decided to seek the Presidency, and when the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse [EMP] Attack made its first “final report” to Congress.

Who’s holding that sword over our heads?

For years it was alleged by Newt to be the Iranians, whom the Neo-Crazies and their media sycophants have insisted have a secret – so secret that not even Israeli spies or inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency, all of them on the ground in Iran for years, have any idea where it might be – deep underground nuclear weapons program.

But now, with Obama in the White House by a landslide, Candidate Newt is alleging it is the North Koreans holding that sword. After all, without doubt – as a direct result of Bush-Cheney-Bolton unilaterally abrogating the Agreed Framework back in the fall of 2002 – the North Koreans now have at least a half-dozen Plutonium-based nukes in their stockpile.

So what?

Well according to Newt;

“One to three missiles tipped with nuclear weapons and armed to detonate at a high altitude – to achieve the strongest EMP over the greatest area of the United States – would create an EMP “overlay” that triggers a continent-wide collapse of our entire electrical, transportation, and communications infrastructure.

“Within weeks after such an attack, tens of millions of Americans would perish. The impact has been likened to a nationwide Hurricane Katrina. Some studies estimate that 90 percent of all Americans might very well die in the year after such an attack as our transportation, food distribution, communications, public safety, law enforcement, and medical infrastructures collapse.”

Great Zot! Where did Newt ever get such an idea? Gordon Prather antiwar.com

-flynn