A Letter to the New Yorker Asking if Bush is Certifiably Insane

Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:59 AM
To: 'themail@...'
Subject: If Bush Uses Nukes in Iran, He is Certifiably Insane

Dear Editor,

After reading your bone chilling piece "The Iran Plans" a question
should come to the minds of many: Is Bush certifiably insane? Upon
reading where Bush is "absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get
the bomb" Well we all saw just how wrong he was when it came to Iraq
and it is incumbent upon all of our elected officials to stop him
(Bush) dead in his tracks in any plan on using nuclear weapons in
Iran. As cited by the government consultant when he opined this of
Bush, "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy." I want to ask
just what the legacy of the human race is should he call upon our
military to use these weapons against Iran?

Seeing how Iran has close ties to Russia who has been rebuilding the
arms race during these past six years: Could we see Russia then
siding with Iran and then attacking us in retaliation?

In a piece written by Fraser Nelson on December 26th, 2005 he
wrote: "On Christmas Eve, the Russian army activated a new fleet of
Topol-M missiles that can fit a nuclear warhead and travel 6,000
miles, changing trajectory to foil any enemy interception device." Is
that what awaits us should Bush use any nuclear warheads in attacking
Iran? As we all know our friendship with Russia has deteriorated in
these past six years and given the right circumstances we will return
to a Cold War mentality. The difference I do see is while the past
Cold War was but a threat, this one looms large where any threat will
turn into reality.

Also China has built strong ties to Iran and with them holding most
of our debt; the financial ramifications against this country will be
devastating. These are the facts that America is not hearing of
through the broadcast media and if they did, they would demand that
Bush must be stopped in order to preserve the human race. He (Bush)
has truly become the world's terrorist.

Sincerely,

Mary MacElveen

Article: The Iran Plans
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact#top

"...The Administration's case against Iran is compromised by its
history of promoting false intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction. In a recent essay on the Foreign Policy Web site,
entitled "Fool Me Twice," Joseph Cirincione, the director for
nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
wrote, "The unfolding administration strategy appears to be an effort
to repeat its successful campaign for the Iraq war." He noted several
parallels:

The vice president of the United States gives a major speech focused
on the threat from an oil-rich nation in the Middle East. The U.S.
Secretary of State tells Congress that the same nation is our most
serious global challenge. The Secretary of Defense calls that nation
the leading supporter of global terrorism.

Cirincione called some of the Administration's claims about
Iran "questionable" or lacking in evidence. When I spoke to him, he
asked, "What do we know? What is the threat? The question is: How
urgent is all this?" The answer, he said, "is in the intelligence
community and the I.A.E.A. (Intl. Atomic Energy Assn.)" (In August,
the Washington Post reported that the most recent comprehensive
National Intelligence Estimate predicted that Iran was a decade away
from being a nuclear power.)..."

=Tactical Nukes.
According to Hersh, they are planning on the use of tactical nuclear
weapons, ie, 'bunker busters', which makes sense if you are the
Strangelove-types in the Bush/Rumsfeld Pentagon.

Nevertheless, I agree, whether tactical or strategic, using nukes
will unleash consequences that are simply unimaginable.

As to the point: "... why give them all this time to nuke us first by
making these plans so public?" Well, the Iranians don't have a
nuclear weapon and they wouldn't have one even if they wanted one for
another ten years!

See: Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb - Washington Post,
August 2, 2005

As Mike Malloy continues to point out, you cannot understand these
people if you are reasonable and rational ... which is why I think
that Bush attacking Iran is very probable.