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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Douglas MacKinnon :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Two Things To Know Before Your City is Nuked By Terrorists
by Douglas MacKinnon
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He talked of critical infrastructures like water, electricity, fuel, banks, our food supply, medical services, police and firefighters, being unavailable for weeks or months. He warned of the blind panic that would follow such an explosion. Of the looting, of neighbor turning on neighbor to take what they don’t have for their own survival. Of our economy suffering an economic loss in the trillions of dollars.

Knowing this, are you prepared? Can you and your family ride out the frighteningly unpredictable weeks or months following the loss of an American city and its inhabitants? If you are not in the city hit, can you survive?

You must ask yourself this question. For, unless there is a miraculous epiphany about to be visited upon our self-centered politicians, then such an attack is certain.

If our politicians and the voters continue to suicidally put party and partisan politics before the welfare and security of our nation, then the terrorists will find the opening to hit us.

Our government and media are failing us. Prepare for the worst.
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Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the forthcoming novel, The Apocalypse Directive.

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Reply # 1
Date: Aug 22, 2007 - 1:25 AM EST
The hype is worse than the reality.
A 15 kT nuke (about the largest size terrorists are likely to be able to steal or build) in Indianapolis would just barely cause severe damage out to the zoo. Apart from flying glass, no one out of immediate downtown would have much to fear. Those of us outside I 465 would only be aware of it as a loud noise.

The body count at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the result of Japanese population densities and air bursts.

Granted, this scenario is not pleasant. But the deaths would be in the thousands, not the millions.

My concern is the large number of people who panic when faced with a trigger word like "Nuclear," "Pit Bull," "Semiautomatic Assault Weapon," "Laser Pointer" or "High Capacity Magazine."

Their terror, panic, rioting and lemminglike scurrying will cause more damage than a small nuke.
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Reply # 2
Date: Aug 21, 2007 - 10:37 PM EST
Wake Up Lefties
1. Secure the borders
2. Boot or jail illegals that don't come clean
3. Shut down every jihad supporting org in the US (CAIR, ACLU etc).
4. Bring punitive measures against Saudi Arabia, the main source of global jihad financing (believe it or not we can live without Saudi oil).
5. Pray to god that a nuke doesn't go off.

We are at war and it will be a long one. The cold war was 50 years, this may take longer. There is no acceptable compromise with Islamo-nutjobs except for Sharia and submission. Do lefties think that suicide bombs and dirty nukes are designed to kill right-wing infidels only? Islamo-nutjobs will gripe about every so-called injustice all the way back to the crusades. Giving Spain back to them will not cure their griping. If one nuke goes off in the US, the immediate response should be to turn Saudi Arabia into a glass parking lot. The rest of our time should be spent hunting down every terrorist cell under every rock on the planet. That's the only language these subhumans understand.
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