This happened before. Bush could lose the election on this issue alone if the American public regains consciousness.
Exactly 40 years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Only luck and negotiation averted a megaton conflict. The events and behaviours of that crisis, from the cynicism of the hawks in the United States to the US manipulation of the UN, is eerily like the present one over Iraq.
We are now putting bases all over the Russian ‘near abroad’. Russia is going to put missiles in our ‘near abroad’. Only this time we have Putin to deal with not Khrushchev, and Bush is scared of Putin. As the Washington Post reported recently in a story about Chechnya, “Inside the State Department, officials debated whether to do the right thing. They then decided, at high levels, no, why make Putin angry?”#msg-1979225
Why is Bush afraid of Putin? What isn’t he telling us?
The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, had long observed the US aggression against Cuba. He wrote in his autobiography: "This question was constantly on my mind. If Cuba fell, other Latin American countries would reject us, claiming that for all our might, the Soviet Union had not been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests at the UN." In a reckless gamble he decided to launch Operation Anadyr, and in May 1962 shipped 50,000 Soviet soldiers and 60 nuclear missiles through Nato territory and across the Atlantic to Cuba. Khrushchev signalled his commitment to his Caribbean ally, demonstrating his strength to both the US and China. Soviet soldiers were setting up the missiles in Cuba when, on 14 October 1962, a high-altitude U2 spy plane photographed the sites.
The Kennedy administration was shocked. The president immediately summoned his national security council to a secret White House meeting. "Why does he put these in there?" Kennedy wondered. "It’s just as if we suddenly began to put a major number of medium-range ballistic missiles in Turkey. Now that’d be goddam dangerous." Kennedy’s special assistant, McGeorge Bundy, replied: "Well, we did, Mr President," referring to the Jupiter missiles that the US had stationed in Turkey near the Soviet border in 1961.
Note: Russian missiles can also be launched from French Guyana. Soyuz rockets are due to start launching from France's Kourou space centre in Guyana in 2006. #msg-2039287
Don’t forget the new Russian subs. China and Iran have bought brand-new, top-of-the-line, Kilo-class diesel subs from Russia, and other nations also have been buying submarines. #msg-2189007
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