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By Tom Hayden [05/27/99] You can't negotiate with a war criminal But a circus tent of NATO opponents, from Tom Hayden to Arianna Huffington, won't face reality. By Ian Williams [05/27/99] Complete archives for News - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -		C O M M E N T A R Y - - - - - - - - - - - - Traitor in chief Clinton has not only dismantled our national defense, he has given away our military advantages to enemies all too willing to destroy us. - - - - - - - - - - - - By David Horowitz May 28, 1999 \| On many occasions over the past few years, including innumerable campaign appearances and three State of the Union addresses, the president of the United States has looked the American people in the eye and assured them that because of his policies, "There are no more nuclear missiles pointed at any children in the United States." For President Clinton, the truth of this statement probably depends on what the meaning of "are" is. But for the rest of us, it is imperative that we recognize the president's statement for the dangerous lie that it is. The tiny shred of truth out of which Clinton has woven this politically useful lie is a meaningless, post-Cold War agreement between Russia and the United States to stop targeting one another's cities. But even if Russia's government were not in a state of near dissolution, the stark military reality is that U.S. intelligence services simply have no way of telling what targets Russia's leaders have actually chosen for their nuclear warheads. In any event, it would take only 15 seconds for Russian commanders to retarget any of their hundreds of strategic missiles tipped with multiple nuclear warheads our way once again. More importantly, by every military index available, the Russians are in fact energetically planning for the possibility of future nuclear war with the United States. And they are not alone. Thanks to technology transfers courtesy of the Clinton administration, China and North Korea are also armed with long-range missiles capable of reaching the American mainland, and neither of those countries are parties to our non-targeting agreement with Russia. According to a recent CIA report, 13 of China's 18 nuclear warheads are known to be aimed at American cities. Nevertheless, after six years of tenacious, dedicated opposition by the Clinton administration to the Strategic Defense Initiative, America has almost no protection against incoming missiles and no prospect of deploying a new system for many years to come. Meanwhile, the post-Cold War world is a dangerous place, and our potential adversaries are more numerous and less predictable than during the Cold War itself. But, as documented by the veteran military reporter Bill Gertz in his disturbing new book "Betrayal," the Clinton administration remains in virtual denial of these dangers: While the administration has cut America's military budget by 40 percent and dramatically drawn down America's nuclear forces, the general in charge of Russia's rocket forces has publicly boasted that his are still at 90 percent of their combat effectiveness during the Cold War. The same general admits that his nuclear command and control systems are already stretched 71 percent beyond their life expectancy and that they are susceptible to unauthorized acts by rogue commanders. Though threats from nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism continue to grow, Clinton has used his veto power to resist every effort by Republicans in Congress to authorize an anti-missile defense program. This opposition was mounted in the name of will-o'-the-wisp "arms-control" agreements with the Russians (who have never in the past respected them), and under the assumption that there was no imminent threat of a missile attack to the United States anyway. In pursuit of these chimeras, as Gertz has documented, Clinton was willing to go behind the back of his own Pentagon and collude with the Russians in blocking the development of a U.S. anti-missile system. While the Clinton administration has stopped all development of its own nuclear weapons and is in the process of drawing down America's existing forces, and while Clinton's Department of Energy chief ( who is in charge of nuclear weapons development) has publicly assailed America's "bomb building culture" and declassified information on 204 nuclear tests for the benefit of potentially hostile powers, Russia and China are engaged in a full-scale nuclear arms race to develop and expand their nuclear arsenals. The expressed purpose of these large-scale nuclear buildups is to gain military superiority over the United States. While the United States has mostly closed down its underground military shelters, Soviet rulers are devoting massive resources (in a country on the verge of famine) to building an underground nuclear bunker the size of Washington capable of holding 30,000 people. The evident purpose of this bunker is to allow the Russian elite to survive a nuclear attack and thereby prevail in the event of all-out nuclear war. There is no country besides the United States that could qualify as an enemy in such a war. Meanwhile, Clinton is sending a billion dollars to Russia earmarked for its "nuclear disarmament program" even though the General Accounting Office has already determined that millions of these dollars are actually going to scientists working to build new nuclear weapons for the Russian military. Now the Cox Report has revealed that even while the Clinton administration was steadfastly "engaging" China as a friendly power, the Chinese were systematically plotting to penetrate the Democratic Party, subvert America's electoral process and steal America's advanced weapons arsenal. The bottom line result is chillingly captured in the Wall Street Journal's summary of the bipartisan report: "The espionage inquiry found Beijing has stolen U.S. design data for nearly all elements needed for a major nuclear attack on the U.S., such as advanced warheads, missiles and guidance systems. Targets of the spying ranged from an Army anti-tank weapon to nearly all modern fighter jets. Most wasn't done by professionals, but by visitors or front companies. Lax security by the Clinton administration is blamed in part, and satellite makers Hughes and Loral are criticized." Next page \| Russian general threatens to shut down U.S.


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