Okay, let me get this straight.<\/p>\n
The US indicates (in leaked documents) that it is considering targeting nuclear weapons (still badly mispronounced by our current President) at the Axis of Evil plus China, Russia, and … oh, I forget who No. 3 was.<\/p>\n
Well, duh<\/i>. Does anyone really think we don’t have nukes aimed, officially or ready for a moment’s download, at countries that have demonstrated a possession of or interest in obtaining Weapons of Mass Destruction — be they nukes, bio-weapons, or chemical weapons. Why wouldn’t <\/i>we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, let me get this straight. 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