If people had known how close we came to world war three that day there’d have been mass panic | |
Sireen User ID: 316770 United States 10/25/2007 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw a documentary on the history channel that explained how close we were to a full out nuclear war with Russia back in the day...simply due to malfunctions in their computers! And to think EVERYTHING is going automated and online! |
No. I said I'm not crazy! (OP) User ID: 91714 United States 10/25/2007 01:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I recorded that as I was not able to watch the entire thing. If I remember correctly, if it was not for the Russian officer over-riding the false missile launch detection warning we would all be fighting with sticks and stones. |
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Sireen User ID: 316770 United States 10/25/2007 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I recorded that as I was not able to watch the entire thing. If I remember correctly, if it was not for the Russian officer over-riding the false missile launch detection warning we would all be fighting with sticks and stones. Quoting: No. I said I'm not crazy!YES!!! That was the episode! Had me in chills when I watched it, reflecting back to those DUCK AND COVER drills we used to have in Middle School. |
No. I said I'm not crazy! (OP) User ID: 91714 United States 10/25/2007 02:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am 37, so it was obviously before my time. I have watched a few documentaries on the subject but I cannot imagine having to go through it in real time. The stress would have been unreal. To switch gears to a humorous tangent...Could you imagine if GLP was around during the Cuban Missle Crisis?!?!?! I cannot imagine the posts!!!!! |
Sireen User ID: 316770 United States 10/25/2007 02:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
No. I said I'm not crazy! (OP) User ID: 91714 United States 10/25/2007 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NO DOUBT! Hell I wish I was at GLP during Y2K! I missed that one too! Quoting: Sireen 316770Wow!!! I completely forgot about Y2K!!!! I found GLP during the days of Elaine and the Planet X fun. Since then I have enjoyed observing the lunatic fringe on the safe side of the glass wall. I too would have loved to have seen GLP in the Y2K days. |
mathetes User ID: 281281 United States 10/25/2007 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On 6 September, when Israel struck a nuclear facility in Syria meticulously planned, brilliantly executed surgical strike by Israeli jets on a nuclear installation in Syria on 6 September may have saved the world from a devastating threat. The only problem is that no one outside a tight-lipped knot of top Israeli and American officials knows precisely what that threat involved. Quoting: No. I said I'm not crazy!Even more curious is that far from pushing the Syrians and Israelis to war, both seem determined to put a lid on the affair. One month after the event, the absence of hard information leads inexorably to the conclusion that the implications must have been enormous. That was confirmed to The Spectator by a very senior British ministerial source: ‘If people had known how close we came to world war three that day there’d have been mass panic. Never mind the floods or foot-and-mouth — Gordon really would have been dealing with the bloody Book of Revelation and Armageddon.’ further on in the article.... Why are all sides so reluctant to clarify the details of this extraordinary event? ‘In the Middle East,’ noted Bret Stephens, a senior editorial executive at the Wall Street Journal and an acute observer of the region, ‘that only happens when the interests of prudence and the demands of shame happen to coincide’. He suggested that the ‘least unlikely’ explanation is a partial reprise of the Israeli air strike which destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. the entire article is here: [link to www.spectator.co.uk] Great post! For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
No. I said I'm not crazy! (OP) User ID: 91714 United States 10/25/2007 03:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Amid the confusion there were troubling details that chimed uncomfortably with the known facts. Two detachable tanks from an Israeli fighter were found just over the Turkish border. According to Turkish military sources, they belonged to a Raam F15I - the newest generation of Israeli long-range bomber, which has a combat range of over 2,000km when equipped with the drop tanks. This would enable them to reach targets in Iran, leading to speculation that it was an ‘operation rehearsal’ for a raid on Tehran’s nuclear facilities. Wonder if it was a rehearsal so that Israel will take out the the Iranian nuke facilities in lieu of the USA taking them out. the entire article is here: [link to www.commondreams.org] |
john paul User ID: 308425 United States 10/25/2007 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |