For a free ride Mr. Firth, please remember the password: Nacho delerium Nicto in liquori uteri. Roughly translated from Centurian is:
cigarettes and whisky and wild wild women.
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To get back to earth, this is not the first trial balloon that the neocons have floated regarding their plans for a nuclear war.
This is literally the 3rd one in 5 years.

It is going to go forward. They are dug in and prepared to wait 2 years for the dust to settle. Speaking of the dust settling, the DU that we spread in the Balkans and Iraq in desert storm and again now has coincided with lung cancer in new epidemic proportions.

Although the possibility of radioactive petroleum has already been looked into by the Bush administration and the pentagon,
I am fully confident that they have not fully thought through their own best case scenario^. It is up to each of us to think out our own.