Another day, another Waxman inquisition
Henry Waxman, the Witch Hunter of Capitol Hill, is in nirvana today — lining up all the oil execs for one of his trademark public floggings:
Members of Congress chastised the largest oil companies Wednesday, saying they are no better prepared to avoid an environmental catastrophe than BP was when its well exploded, unleashing millions of barrels of crude.
With top oil company executives waiting to testify at a House hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman asserted that the companies’ spill response plans amounted to “paper exercises” that mirrored BP’s failed plan. Their strategies to plug a spill deep beneath the sea are the same failed strategies that have stymied BP, the California Democrat said.
The other companies “are no better prepared to deal with a major oil spill than was BP,” said Waxman, setting the tone for a tense hearing.
One lawmaker after another expressed frustration at BP’s inability to stop oil gushing from its stricken well as the chief executives representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell — as well as BPAmerica — sat shoulder to shoulder at the witness table.
Waxman’s underlying, longtime agenda: War on Big Oil.
BP may be first in the line of fire, but experts said the whole industry will be on trial Tuesday. Executives from BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron are scheduled to testify.
“I’m not sure the industry has grasped how much this is going to hurt them in the long run,” one energy lobbyist told POLITICO. “They’re still seeing this as a BP problem. That’s not a good place for them to be.”
The bottom line: Oil Week in Washington — complete with CEO testimony, a presidential address to the nation and the release of damaging documents about BP’s safety record — may represent a turning point in the way the public views the domestic oil industry if Waxman and the White House succeed in their efforts. Longtime environmentalists like Waxman see the oil spill crisis as their moment to put the industry on its heels after decades of having its way on Capitol Hill — much like Waxman did with the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
Waxman has been assiduously building his case against Big Oil for years, and now he has the documents and the forum to carry on his mission. On Monday, Waxman released a scathing 14-page letter to Hayward that outlined his charge that BP sacrificed safety for profit and cut corners on drilling procedures.
Industry and government sources expect that the other oil company executives — including those from Exxon, Conoco and Chevron — will echo the charge that BP cut corners, further isolating the company at the center of the oil spill. The strategy for these other companies is to help Waxman throw BP down the well in hopes of appeasing him…
Silly companies. There’s no appeasing Torquemada.
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Waxman is an alien and every opportunity to make us weaker will be taken. This will open us up to invasion from the weird inhabitants of his home planet.
I’m just saying what everybody’s thinking.
Word is that teh Precedent thinks this will be a Kennedy speech like unto the going to the moon speech.
I expect it will be a call for Green Energy, to be funded by more taxes on the oil industry.
Economic suicide.
Just think about this one… “REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN GAS WAS 4.00 A GALLON”?!?!
I still say that Henry Waxman would be a perfect match to play Wesley Mooch in an Atlas Shrugged movie…of course he would probably think that he was playing the hero role of the movie…
As for this grandstanding I wish the oil execs would just reply saying, “at least we have a plan on paper that is more than we can say for the Federal Government”
b-cat said:
If I did not know better, then again perhaps I don’t, Waxy is the Rep. from District 9.
Close… If’n I was an oil Exec, I’d have a copy of the Federal Law with me… the one that makes the Cleanup a FEDERAL Gov responsibility.
And a copy of the Federal Plan, which exists, but was not followed.
Sorry, waxman, this will not change my mind about drilling offshore. All the d’s and this bho wants is c&t and $7 or higher gas. You guys are making a big, big mistake! Blaming everyone but this bho and your stupid gov. rules have made lots of American’s get a real negative view of y’all.
L
He went on to say; “Should you ever develop a workable strategy, we will then insist that you drill in two, or even three mile deep water. So there.”
Reason 2,783 for the GOP to gain control of the House.
Everything a voter in the 30th district of California needs to know about Henry Waxman.
No one expects the Wacks-man Inquisition!
Where is Bob Etheridge when we really need him…?
BP should stick Wax(girly)man’s big old schnozz down that well to plug it!
The north pole is evaporating?
It is criss-crossed by shipping lanes?
We need to send him there on a fact-finding mission. The longer it takes, the better.
When are the idiots in his district going to get rid of this sh*tsickle?Honestly is there a more useless person on the planet(present POTUS excluded)?
Tundra under the North Pole?How stupid do you have to be to get elected as a Democrap?Pretty effing stupid apparently.
After allowing five minutes for actual testimony, the California Democrat continued; “We’re in a bit of a time crunch here, as I have to go home and kill a golden egg-laying goose for my supper.”
Piglet’s got his nose hairs all twisted in a wad! Somebody’s going to get waxed!
If there was only a way to have CO2 producing fossil fuel energy producers withhold energy from Waxman? No gasoline for his car, no coal fired or natural gas electricity for his house, no food from those diesel powered trucks, no plane flights, no … ? whatever. He’s a lunatic and nothing is worse than a lunatic in a position of power.
the answer to that lies with his constituents, does it not.
I’m afraid none of the oil execs will get the comfy chair though. That is reserved for Barry’s Supreme Court nominees.
I see. So if a TWA jet crashes, you shut down and haul up Delta and Jet Blue and SouthWestern for being delinquent on safety and threaten to replace them with dirigibles and steamships, yes? Is there any Dem with the sense and guts to knock this “logic”? Three Mile Island (not with Russian design) not only wouldn’t have killed anyone had there been a complete meltdown but would’ve ironically extinguished fears if it had! Instead, eco-fears set us back from developing nuclear electricity to the point France enjoys. Will Congress allow the Oil industry to equally learn and live from this accident and _recoverable_ event? (to me a Catastrophe is an asteroid striking Earth, NOT a flock of oily birds). I loathe it when the MSM crowns the Greens with white hats, weeping over oily birds being cleaned by Greenies while ignoring the millions of Africans who starved to death because of Green bans on DDT. NYC People, check out NY-1 TV for resurrected State proposal to plant the center-strips and borders of NYS interstates with windmills. Stop the green madness.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
We are not sure how deep that hole is… they are drilling deeper, just ask Al Greene.
Mr. Waxman is the poster boy for bad governance. He’s a creepy communist; I hope the people of California are proud of their choice of representatives.
Waxman does ‘scathing’? I didn’t think he was that smart, nor had the ‘nads to back up ‘scathing’.
stillontheroad–I think Christopher Johnson was waaaay more appealing than Waxman.
Have you noticed the only things the Democrats do is blame others? No matter what the issue they do nothing more than blame some and call them names. They cannot function without a villain to attack.
spaceycakes said:
LOL point taken — Chris had class compared to that beetle grub Waxman
Well, I guess those government inspectors shouldn’t have been on the take then, huh, Nostrildamus?
Henry, plug your damn hole!
Really. The Chinese, Mexicans, Brazilians, Cubans et al are drilling like hell and this Schnazool is preparing to bury America with a coup de grace to our oil industry, which will finally wreck the US economy.
If the Marxian Democrats have their way, fuel prices will skyrocket and crush the economy for good. We’ll be lucky to see $5.00 gas. Obama and this Marxist ship of fools must be stopped before they can finish us off.
#19 said:
Sometimes I wish there was a rule that the local constituents get a 75% vote and the Nation gets a 25% vote. That could reduce the number of local politicians that have a bigger affect on the National scene than the local scene.
Just a thought.
Nah, No worries fo that. I think there are no more like him…that’s why he’s always so angry and longing for attention…He’s the “Last of the Nosehikans”.
Regretably it does.
Does this guy walk around with a “Kick Me” sign on his back? Looking for villians isn’t really that hard! Look in the mirror Nostrildamus, or are you afraid:
a) to see your own reflection?
b) of the face of incompetence?
c) you’ll cast no reflection?
What has this man done in all his years in the house? Has he authored bills of any significance, or his he simply the designated bullied bully in search of villans? He
needsdeserves to go!Michell, please check Patterico today. He has some interesting data about the oil spill. Methinks Waxman is the smallest problem we and BP face in the Gulf.
There is a link to this site. Please visit it and ask what inquisition is appropriate? The short of it is that there is a real danger for a complete emptying of the 2.5 billion barrel, that’s 100 billion gallons, of oil and a collapse of the sea floor.
‘The magnitude and impact of this disaster will eclipse anything we have known in our life times’
{o.o}
I’m kinda chuckling over these new new Ethanol furl commercials. Ethanol the green “peace” fuel. I seems to recall from my ancient Boy Scout days that a rule of survival was don’t burn what you can eat. I wonder if the Ethanol folks could tally up how much human food prices goes up with farmland being taken out of circulation for engine food, not to mention its impact on food exports to needy lands.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Here is something that the execs should be asking Waxman and company:
From the heritage foundation:
So it sounds to me like Obama is working hard to protect his union base once again. The whole article is great by the way and I would recommend reading it.
herself said:
This is about the best and informative thing I have read on this.
On the other hand, if the oil companies continue to fund the re-election of these idiots, maybe they deserve it. And I’m not anti-oil.
Horizon Lines is a Jones-Act shipping company, and I believe they have offered ships. Crickets.
There was a time I thought the X Files were Fantasy: Waxman, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Boxer and such have caused me to rethink the issue. They are here, they are in Congress and they are carnivorous.
Whenever some sissy brings us the issue of Senator Joe McCarthy, may he rest in peace, I bring up Henry Waxman. The fools generally give me a blank stare. Hopefully we can have a Great Cleansing and be done with Waxman and the fools with blank stares. They could be used as extras on alien invasion movies. Where is zzyz?
If Henry Waxman married Maxine Waters we would have had a really ugly Obaminite from California; be thankful for small favors. Where is zzyz?
Every time I look at that picture of Waxman, I think of Porky Pig.
What infuriates me is knowing that, while Obama is shutting down our oil rigs, Cuba, Venezuala and Mexico are still drilling out there!! How stupid is that??? Are you freakin kidding me?? WE can’t drill, thus destroying our economy, but those other countries (who don’t like us very much) are taking the oil, and probably under less stringent regulations than we have. This isn’t about safety…it is about control, destroying the private sector, and sticking it to those evil capitalists. Is there no way to stop these people before they completely ruin our great country?
I thought of the rat faced guy in Harry Potter.
Icecaps and glaciers are the anomaly.
The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. There have been 4 glacial periods in fairly recent history, the last one ending approximately 12,000 years ago. The ice we currently have is leftovers from the previous glacial period. Well over 4 billion years went by without ice.
So the question remains…..if they get their wish and get rid of big oil (yea right), but hypothetically they do and have another form of energy i.e. solar/wind/hydrogen, how long and which one will become their new boogey man/strawman business to attack and destroy?
These clowns hate capitalism and as long as it exist and not under gov control they will chastise all of them!
The National Guardsmen at Kent State started to, but were stopped.
The people running our country now are the guys that ran around “expanding” their minds, driving a VW bus with curtains and peace signs, and stayed at the university after graduation. They became tenured faculty, and their viral gospels are infecting the whole country.
Their gods are Mao, Marx, Trotsky, Che, Fidel, Andrea Dworkin, Oprah, and Susan Sarandon.
Remember the Game Show, the Weakest Link? I’ve thought it would be great that in addition to voting for your own representative, that all voters had the opportunity to vote one Senator and four Representatives as the Weakest link, and whichever Senator and four Represenatives received the most votes nationwide as the Weakest Links would be removed from office.
the dripping nasal cavity never ceases in his pathetic attempt at seeming important. he needs to take his carcass back to that stink hole california and never be heard from again.
He reminds me of Bat Boy.
Al Gore and Larry David’s (Seinfeld creator) ex-wife. Indoor body surfing, apparently.
Why is Tipper divorcing al Ghour? It couldn’t be avoided.
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…and you can $ee where that got us, eh?
Healthcare linked to taxes on cigarettes/tobacco is to “green” energy development linked to taxes on CO2 generating energy producers…
I can see November from my front porch!
Another step in setting the oil industry up for a Chavez style takeover. Demonize them, then look like “the good guys” in taking over the oil. I’m still very suspicious over the timing of this gulf disaster so soon after Obama’s “drill” order.
You would be surprised how many of us conservatives protested the draft and Viet Nam war.
Oh Al; this is what you get when you hang out in Hollywood instead of Nashville. I see Multiple divorces in your future with west coast alimony out the wazoo. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
I see life imprisonment.
Wrong track, Waxman being Waxman, business as usual.
Roger that. I did too. I didn’t want to go to Nam since I could tell that we weren’t really serious, as a nation, to win it.
That last time the United States actually declared W A R was December 8, 1941.
Once Congress declares war, it is hard for them to pooh-pooh about it, and badmouth the President, if they are all in the same boat.
All the lives we lost in Viet Nam were in vain.
As for the present situation, I firmly believe that, as soon as Saddam was captured and executed, we should have appointed a Military Governor-General, like McArthur in Japan, to run Iraq until they could come up with their own constitution and elect leaders. Then, you get the hell out of Dodge. If their country fails, so be it.
The only exit strategy should be total and unconditional surrender.
I consider Viet Nam the Democrats war just as I see the dropping of the A-bomb on Japan as the Democrats bombs.
Good point. Bush after promising no nation building proceded to build Iraq. He should have just bombed for 3 months, then left Hussein pick up the pieces and enforcing inspections. Also he promised that Iraq oil would pay for our occupation. Never happened, and wont happen with Obama either.
On a tangent, our wing commander at Ramey A.F.B., Puerto Rico in the late 60s was Col. Tom Ferebee. He was the bombardier on the Enola Gay. Tibbets flew the mission, but Ferebee actually pulled the lever after looking through the sight.
He was one of the nicest guys I have ever met. He really supported the Boy Scouts on the base, and upgraded the enlisted housing.
As can be imagined, he was asked countless times after the war if he thought he did the right thing, and how he felt about killing so many thousands of people by dropping his terrible bomb.
He always responded that he knew that, by doing so, he saved thousands of American lives, and that was what was important.
takes one to know one!
I have no problem with Harry Truman dropping the bomb.
Harry Truman was a Democrat, but he was anti-communist. The Democratic Party, as a whole, used to be a loyal and patriotic party.
Used to be. Key words.
FDR’s Ag Secretary and third term VP, Henry Wallace, was an open fan of Soviet communism. He had toured the USSR, and liked what he saw, even the gulags. His fondness for communism got him kicked off the ticket when FDR ran in 1944, or we’d have had an Obama like enemy agent POTUS almost seven decades earlier.
Wallace splintered from Truman’s Democratic Party, ran as a “Progressive”. Wallace’s campaign manager was a Soviet agent, and Wallace apparently knew and didn’t mind.
He lost badly in 1948, and he and his volunteers, among them George McGovern, rejoined the Democratic Party, and started working from within to make it a pro-Soviet party.
The riots at the 1968 Democratic Party convention, designed to bring down the last of the anti-communist Democrats, worked. New nominating procedures were designed by Senator McGovern, who became the candidate in 1972. By that time the party was solidly split between pro-communists and anti-communists.
As the party drifted ever more pro-Marxist, former Democratic politicians like Phil Gramm abandoned the party.
The party had drifted far enough leftward that 1988 candidate Al Gore, of recent adultery fame, had to suddenly renounce his anti-abortion and pro 2nd amendment views, and he still lost to the more liberal Michael Dukakis.
Clinton came from the last vestige of the anti-communist Democrats, even though Clinton himself had no core convictions, and his wife Hillary was almost certainly somewhat sympathetic to the Marxist cause, having written her college paper a salute to Saul Alinsky.
Obama, of course, did her one better, and studied directly under the disciples of Alinsky, and having more genuine communist bona fides, and being an ethnic minority, was able to capture the nomination.
And the Republicans nominated another elderly war hero, who had served his country admirably, but had spent decades in Washington learning to compromise his ideals. Well, Dole was never quite as bad as McCain. McCain had the bad fortune (or was it America), as did Lindsay Graham, to leave the armed forces and enter politics after the Democrats had clearly become the anti-military party.
John Kerry was a faux war hero, who had worked with the communists in Paris. The last legitimate military hero who entered the Democrat Party was probably John Glenn. McCain and Graham’s pro-American but center or even center-left position on most of the issues would have made them excellent Democrats, back in the era of Truman, Hubert Humphrey or Scoop Jackson. But that era had passed.
Wow, great treatise, Ed.
I can remember when chrome was thick on a bumper, Ed Sullivan aired on Sunday nights, and my parents were Democrats.
My dad passed away last year, Republican to the core. Just like Reagan, the Democrat Party left him; he didn’t leave the party.
As a matter of fact, that’s kind of like my relationship with the Catholic Church. They left me……..
Nice little essay, except for this whopper.
thank you tony the tiger!
TXVET2, quoted out of context.
Clinton wasn’t anti-communist, he had no convictions except golfing with his buds and chasing skirts, whether the women involved wanted to be chased or not. He might have dabbled with it in his Oxford days, when he visited the USSR, but I’d almost bet that was because he was trying to get some from some devoted commie skank.
Clinton was a product of the “centrist” “Democratic Leadership Council”, who claimed not to be as extreme as the Northeast liberal wing of the party.
His wife may be a commie, but Clinton is just a low life party boy, not a dedicated Marxist.
The Dems still have a “Blue Dog Coalition”, but the hell care debates showed “moderate” Demonrats are actually communists who have to stay in the closet because they aren’t from safely Marxist districts.
But they choose leaders like Pelosi and Waxman who are from safely Marxist districts, and enough always seem to vote “aye” that the Marxist agenda advances.
His mentor was an anti-communist – and a racist as well. It doesn’t mean Clinton was. He just rode the coat tails of the biggest swinging D in Arkansas.
Me neither. The biggest reason was the probability that there would be terrible casualties, both American and Japanese, if an invasion occurred. Many civilians were ready to defend their homes and there was still a fanatical Japanese army. Casualties among Americans were predicted to be between 300-500K. 2 less known reasons were the Soviets entering the war, and grumbling among the Americans at home. With the Soviets in the fight, Japan could have been another Korea. Stalin would have demanded land. American families at home, with VE day, wanted their “boys to come home” from Europe; not go to the Pacific. Many units were slated for Asia. There were protests being made. So, dropping 2 bombs and threatening more was a good decision; regardless of Democrat or Republican politics.
what-what?
J. W. Notsobright?
Different Demonratic president, Jimmy Carter, I think he was a patriotic, but naive, gullible, and, of course, liberal when he was President.
He may have always hated Jews (his mentor was also an old time racist), we don’t know, but he didn’t attend an integrated Baptist church until he prepared to run for President.
Now, I think he hates America now, because the average American rejected him, a gentleman Southern farmer who attended the Naval Academy, for a Midwestern small school educated Hollywood B movie actor.
But that bitterness and America hatred, the kind that allows a man to be seated in co-equal positions of honor at the last Demonrat Convneton with Michael Moore, that came post-presidency.
Ex-Naval officers do not have a great track record as Presidents.
Clinton was certainly not the last vestige of the anti-communist Dim-o-crats. Clinton(Bill) was a left-leaning, hedonist out for a good time. Clinton (Hillary) was the committed ideologue. Bill would go along to get what he wanted and thought was best for Bill. If it happened to be a radical agenda pushed by Hillary that was cool. If it happened to be a mostly conservative agenda pushed by the House GOP, that was cool too.
Bill was in it for Bill and he could have gone either way, if you’ll forgive the double entendre.
I don’t buy it. People were tired of the war, so 200,000 civilian deaths didn’t bother them, any more than the half million South Vietnamese deaths after the US left. But if he could justify dropping the bomb then, then anyone, anywhere can justify next time for whatever trumped out reason they may concoct.
YES!!!
If Truman had been a communist Henry Wallace wouldn’t have left the Democratic Party to run as a progressive.
He certainly saved American lives, and probably saved more Japanese lives then those who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by dropping the bomb.
Zel Miller wasn’t a communist, Phil Gramm isn’t a communist.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat once, through the Eisenhower years.
Yup. Almost 2 months into this and Obama is ignoring the help being offered. If anyone says Obama is doing everything he can….. they 100% wrong.
He appears to be deliberately avoiding cleanup options the he has the power to make happen.
Protecting his union base while letting the Gulf become a festering mess may just be what he’s doing Truesoldier.
As much as BP is to blame, Obama is earning a huge chunk of the blame for this mess by his incompetent and maybe criminal handling of the cleanup.
Obama HAS NOT INTENTION OF RESOLVING THIS MESS. He somehow believes it benefits him to have the crisis drag on. I think he is wrong but what does he care…
From the History of the Purple Heart….
Type IV (1970′s-current): bronze gilt, plastic heart, unnumbered, crimp brooch. No Purple Hearts were manufactured for the Army for 25 years after WWII. In anticipation of the invasion of Japan, approximately 500,000 Purple Hearts were manufactured. This stock lasted through the Vietnam War.
It saved lives.
If Truman hadn’t dropped the bomb the US Army was expecting 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 casualties from the invasion of the home islands and expected to kill more than 10,000,000 Japanese.
The two bombs killed a lot fewer people than the invasion would have.
No one can even imagine having to make a decision like Truman had to face. Hundreds of thousands of lives vs millions? Civillians vs military? Long term effects unknown. Could they have just vaporized what was left of the Japanese fleet and gotten the point across?
It is nonsense to second guess. It ended the war and ultimately saved lives. If you want to play the alternate reality game, imagine if Japan or Germany developed the bomb first.
I do not wish to advocate the indiscriminate use of any bombs, much less nuclear warheads.
The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were basically operational tests of a nuclear weapon in a wartime environment. They were huge, ugly, inefficient, and generated a lot of radioactive fallout due to the fact that a lot of the uranium or plutonium was not expended making the explosion.
Today’s generation of nuclear weapons are so much more cleaner, efficient, and the delivery systems are deadly accurate. Increased accuracy allows for the use of smaller warheads. The amount of particle radiation is negligible compared to those early tests in the desert and on Pacific atolls. The primary outputs of a nuclear blast is thermal, neutron and gamma (non-particulate rays), and concussion.
It is good that so many of the photos and newsreels we have seen over the years in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki show the suffering and horror of the survivors. They aspirated fallout (alpha and beta particles); the very air was poisoned along with the dust. These images have hopefully kept the U.S. and other nations from using nuclear weapons since August of 1945.
I fear that rogue nations will not have the same reluctance our nation has. Iran and North Korea, and perhaps India and Pakistan might be less restrained than the U.S. and former Soviet Union.
Not to defend Wax-off. I hate the slimy b@stard, but he actually DOES have a very small point (other than the one on top of his pinhead.).
BP did do a whole bunch of things that it should not have and took a whole bunch of risks is should not have and it did come back to bite them. the issues of the no bond log being run and the failure to use enough centralizers and the changes in the cementing procedures are all valid criticisms. I however question whether right now is the time or the place to be going into it. BP is currently working hard to fix the mess. What is to keep them from throwing down their tools and walking away? nothing. All this talk of punishing them into bankruptcy while they are trying to clean up the mess is insane and very unwise. The time to fix blame and punish the guilty is after the problem has been solved. But for these idiots the only thing they know HOW to fix is blame.
Actually there is some evidence that Japan very nearly did. There is some evidence that they tested a device that was a fizzle. it was apparently tested on board a heavily damaged japanese warship anchored off the coast of what is now North Korea. The Japanese Navy had relocated their atom bomb project (using gaseous centrifuges instead of cyclotrons like the ones the Army was using in Tokyo.) to North Korea which was overrun by the Soviets shortly after the War ended. It is thought that the Soviets may have gotten their first taste of nuclear technology from captured Japanese Physicists and equipment, which would explain why they were able to duplicate the Manhattan project so quickly.
From what I’ve read it is unlikely that Kim Jung Il actually has an operational weapon. The tests they played up did not go so well. Iran is another matter. A functional nuclear weapon in the hands of Ahmadinijad – who actually believes the 12th Imam insanity and has vowed to destroy Israel – is not an acceptable possibility. Mutually Assured Destruction is not a deterrent if one of the guys wants to martyr himself, and the world.
As long as the Weenie in Chief and Smart Power Hillary are around – the US will do nothing but mumble about the possibility of forming a coalition of nations who might talk about enforcing some “sanctions with teeth”, (unless of course the others decide to trade weapons to Iran for oil instead) – in which case they may expect a sharply worded letter of reprimand from Hillary, or one of her deputies. And the UN will simply continue being the UN.
Which leaves Israel alone and vulnerable. I don’t believe for a second that is a position Israel will accept. They will knock out that weapon at all cost – and it will get ugly. I don’t want this to be the case, so PLEASE tell me where I’m wrong.
Wish I could……………..
Let’s not forget that along with being war weary, the U.S. government was pretty close to broke. People had years of shortages and rationing and sacrificing to buy bonds and who knows if they’d have been able to stomach and finance another 2 or 3 years.
Swede, I have spoken with someone who has seen some video of NK’s test shot as well as being VERY familiar with the seismic technologies involved with verifying underground nuclear testing. I can’t tell you why he knows this, just trust me that he does and he is legit if you get my drift. Don’t ask me how he obtained access to view the video, neither you nor I want to know that.He tells me that the test shot was exactly as big as they intended for it to be. The subsidence crater came within feet of the instrumentation trailer which needs to be as close to the device as possible. There are a number of indications that the weapon they tested was not a crude 20kt class “Trinity” type device but instead was a linear implosion sub-kiloton device designed to fit on their Taepodong missiles which is relatively short range with a small payload capacity. And that the device was set off in a large underground cavern which would dampen the seismic signature of the device and make it look even smaller than it actually was. A similar test was done by the US Government in a salt dome in Mississippi in the early sixties to test whether such a masking technique would work. It did. (not far from my hometown I might add…. Yeah that explains a lot don’t it? =b)
Further, the venting of radioactive gasses from the crater after the shot were consistent with a fission device, not a “fizzle”
Such a small device would serve their purposes on several fronts. It could be adapted to be a backpack nuke so it could be sold as a terror weapon to Al Queda and others. it could be fitted to a 155mm howitzer shell for bombardment of SK, and it could be fitted to their Taepodong missiles as well as any number of other SCUD derived missiles in the inventories of a number of nations in the middle east (such as Iran…).
This would give them a very salable product on the world’s black weapons markets.
Satan has a special red hot pitchfork waiting for Henry Waxman in Hell. Waxman is probably the most evil being that walks the face of the earth.
This is a perfect example of what Congress has become. I bunch of arm chair quarterbacks who sit around and complain and talk about how things should be done better and only come up with solutions that have been tried before and failed completely.
Worse yet, they blast companies for following the laws to try to gain public support to gain more power and blackmail companies to
pay more bribesmake more contributions.How many of you history nuts out there can tell me how many civilizations this kind of behavior has totally destroyed?