Chilling Bullshit | Waiting for Apocalypse

I suggest everyone take a look at this Guardian article:

McNamara tells a chilling tale of something that is not much discussed in the MSM, and completely ignored by Bush Rummy and Dick - as far as what we don't hear from the administration through the preening mouthpiece of White House press stooges. Check out this stunning few lines

In New York, little noticed and little covered in the media, delegates from around the world sat down to try to strengthen the 1970 Non Proliferation Treaty...

The conference was a disaster. It took a fortnight to agree an agenda. By the time McNamara arrived in New York last week to appeal to the delegates and suggest paths out of the impasse, it was already too late. Failure was guaranteed. "I felt they'd accomplished nothing," he says...

Meanwhile, US strategic policy is still built on the cold war foundations of constant nuclear readiness. "While we are speaking, we, the United States, have 6,000 strategic warheads deployed, each one on average the destructive power of the nuclear bomb that killed 100,000 human beings at Hiroshima," he says. Two thousand of those warheads are ready to launch on 15-minute warning - a state of affairs McNamara describes as "so bizarre as to be beyond belief".

This really should be Foreign Affairs policy #1. Why is the press not jumping down Bush's throat on this? When the coming shit storm does hit, will W have the balls to stand on the twisted, smoldering ruins of whichever American city buys it, clad in his presidential radiation suit, his arm around a brave yet horribly burned emergency worker, bullhorn raised to his respirator, and announce, "Oops! Guess I fucked up. Sorry."

[or will he collapse into the fetal position on Air Force One, sucking his thumb and wetting his pants all the way to NORAD? I suspect something like the latter.]