Monday, May 11, 2009
Shocking but True: Castro Had 100 Nukes in 1962
Food for thought....
Official estimates of North Korean and Pakistani nuclear arsenals can be dangerously misleading.
The hidden history of the Cuban Missile Crisis--kept from U.S. intelligence and the public for 30 years--proves the point.
It was learned in 1992 that the Soviet Union had smuggled about 100 small nuclear weapons into Cuba at the time of the October 1962 crisis in addition to more powerful strategic missiles.
Cuban President Fidel Castro wanted to keep the tactical weapons--nuclear warheads for artillery and IL-28 jet bombers--even after the crisis, and Moscow's defense minister initially agreed and ordered his troops to train Cubans in their use.
But Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, shocked that Castro had urged him to attack the United States with strategic nuclear missiles at the height of the crisis, ordered his commanders to swiftly remove all the tactical weapons.
The crisis ended in October and the last of the tactical warheads was reported returned to the Soviet Union on Christmas Day in December 1962, according to documents found decades later by Western and Russian researchers in once-secret Soviet archives.Sunday, May 10, 2009
Newt Gingrich Condemns Obama Betrayal of Israel
On Sunday, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich again showed that he is one of Israel's best friends in the United States.
He called for sanctions to be imposed against Iran and its access to gasoline imports during his address at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, D.C.
Gingrich condemned the Obama administration’s diplomatic overtures to Iran, saying that the country is led by theocrats who threaten the security of Israel, and in turn that of the United States.
“We need to recognize that there are some regimes we will never be able to cut a deal with because they are in fact evil,” he said.
Call for Regime Change in Iran
The Republican leader called for “enforcing the disruption of gasoline supplies until the Iranian economy broke, the ayatollahs were ousted and a new regime was in place, without a single shot fired.”
The Obama administration has given up on regime change in Iran. In fact, the administration is ready to offer the mullahocracy security guarantees as part of a "Grand Bargain" to counter the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to China Confidential analysts.
Gingrich said that cutting off Iran’s access to international oil markets would take away their ability to “subsidize terrorism around the world.” [China Confidential analysts say the Islamist regime needs a minimum $80 oil price to supports its ailing economy and nuclear program and imperialist projects.]
Gingrich also called for military strikes, if necessary, to destroy missile sites in Iran and North Korea.
In an interview with the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Gingrich described Obama’s policy of engaging Iran a “fantasy” and his policies in the region “very dangerous for Israel.”
Monday, 11 May 2009
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