Drudge reporting that NATO is expected to soon announce that preparations are underway to pull all nuclear weapons from Britain and Europe!

Are we completely nuts??? Is there anyone really at the helm?

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), November 05, 1999

Answers

1. WE'RE not nuts.

2. There's nobody at the helm. (except for the squirrel king)

3. I don't see any harm in this. The Police in England currently yell, "STOP or I'll shout stop again!".

4. We are surrounded by total insanity and a complete lack of common sense in every other blessed aspect of our current society and government.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), November 05, 1999.

Makes sense. If civilization falls apart, do we really want nukes in all corners of the world? Lock them up here until we rebuild and can once again play with our toys.

-- One (Finger@TheRed.Button), November 05, 1999.

Snowbabe, how about a link or a url? Finding something on the Drudge site is much akin to trying to find a lost matching sock in a teenager's closet. And we parents all know how repellant that project can be.

-- (resigned@this.point), November 05, 1999.

unfortunately, there IS someone at the helm and he has an agenda. The continued safety and security of the United States does not appear to be on this list. What may still be on the list keeps me awake at night. Remember this time, so that you can tell your children, if you are allowed to, what it was like to live in relative freedom.

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), November 05, 1999.

Of course there is someone at the helm. And he has the best interests of the nation in mind at all times. The only question is, what nation? :(

-- James Collins (Jacollins@thegrid.net), November 05, 1999.

I had repeated difficulty getting the link from Drudge to open. So on the chance that others did also, am reprinting the article here:

US nuclear force set to quit Europe BY TIM SHIPMAN

US is preparing to withdraw all its nuclear bombs from Britain and the rest of Europe was claimed last night.

An official announcement will be made at a Nato ministerial meeting in Brussels next month, said military and diplomatic sources. "It is hard to see why these US nuclear bombs are still in Europe," said one source.

The withdrawal of weapons from Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Turkey would mark the historic conclusion to a process of disarmament that began with Ronald Reagan's famous fireside chat with Mikhail Gorbachev.

But move seems extraordinary in its timing, with tension between the US and Russia over the future of East-West nuclear relations true, the decision would bring to an end the American deployment at British air bases such as Lakenheath, Suffolk, long the target of peace activists. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said he knew nothing about the possible pull-out. "It is entirely a matter for the Americans," he said.

Pentagon spokesman insisted there were no such plans if there was something like this going on, there would be some rumblings," he said. "It wouldn't just bubble up like this."

While Western Europe would continue to enjoy the protection of Nato submarines armed with nuclear weapons, the total withdrawal of American weapons from Europe would leave just the small British and French arsenals.Russia has 2,500 nuclear warheads and has resisted moves to ratify the strategic arms reduction treaty it signed six years ago. Only yesterday it test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, an act of brinkmanship in its escalating war of words over a 27-year-old treaty which helped to control the nuclear arms race. ) Express Newspapers, 1999

http://www.lineone.net/express/99/11/05/news/n0240nuclear- d.html

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 05, 1999.

Ummm....,

Didn't our beloved leader already announce a couple of years ago that all US nuclear weapons had been removed from Europe? Did they ship some back when nobody was looking?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), November 05, 1999.