Uh, Ash, think about it a bit more.

These are called "contingency plans". They have them for every country in the world, and Antarctica. Most of them are dreamed up by Majors and below in brainstorming sessions not terribly dissimilar to the kinds of planning, etc. used by online action gamers. I'm quite sure that somewhere in the files there's a contingency plan for, e.g., nuking London, with ground zero(es) carefully plotted for maximum destructive effect. It wouldn't surprise me if there was one for New York city, just in case the Bad Guys (who?) should take it over. It does not surprise me in the least that there are contingency plans for bombing various places in the Middle East, with the ones we've been noticing lately being the most recently updated. [It's probably been a while since the plans for invasion of Argentina were looked at.]

Normally they don't get released. There was a time when they did once in a while, but in the modern hysterical atmosphere people always overreact. One of the worst bits of weaseling in the Freedom Of Information Act is the one that lets the military refuse to release such things.

This is a psyop aimed at Saddam and Prince Whatever of Saudi Arabia. Think of it as a line in an email header: Bcc: S. Hussein (via CNN)

See also: dissembling and gerund phrases such as at:

[link|http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagram2.htm|Lying techniques parsed]

Umm Ric - you didn't imagine that I/we er *believe* at face value ANYTHING released officially or officially-leaked (from M$ or any agency, that is. Now the Pope is in an entireley different category, natch..)

Mean only: this particular tack creates an open-ended set of expectations - opposite to those generated by the [lie] Other recent [lie] regarding our Selected Resident's putative view of:

Say? "The non-Role of Nukes in Everyone's Future". THAT piece of disinfo you see.. clashes a bit with the latest homogenized piece of fluff.

My merely personal opinion is: no military mind can long stay away from imagining: possession of Ultimate Control of all aspects of the daily world play. It is *THERE* to be imagined about, as perfectly obviously as, as a down-scale Mercedes owner's guaranteed lust for a new $86K SL-500 .... the both convertible AND hardtop - at the push of a VERY-expensive button, covered by the skin of a popular endangered-species du jour.. (er the button, not the top itself). Ergo" Military Control of Space\ufffd is as natural as a MBA's catechism or a flak's fluff.

SO I merely commented upon the neat way in which this latest disinfo dovetails with that equally obvious Military Grail. Just add into the mix, our utter Religious Faith in the exercise of pure Power - over all more subtle human considerations like (persuasion?) ...

and stir.

Otherwise of course: Nothing is changed.

HTH.

Ashton

*FLASH* This just in:

Every day and in every way.. the Russians are believing more and more that, we are a bunch of poop-heads* and will do Anything to keep them screwed up - while smiling a lot.

* poop-head - illustrates the level of actual discourse when Dr. K(issinger - you thought I meant Kevorkian din'cha?) and Dubya get down to Long Term Stradigy: sellin' the mining rights on Ceres, say.. to the Lone Star Drilling Co. and bro Jeb's branch o' the Prescott Bush Legacy.

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