Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream of the Left, just like socialized healthcare."
-- Rudy Giuliani, 2010

"A nuclear world war cannot be won and must never be fought. And no matter how great the obstacles may seem, we must never stop our efforts to reduce the weapons of war. We must never stop at all until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of this earth."
-- Ronald Reagan, 1984

Was it Giuli who said, I think on Fox, that while he was on unemployment and foodstamps that he didn't receive any government help? Regardless, how does a non-nuclear-free world help us?

Comments

[silveradept]

It helps him get elected again, so he can go back to making sentences composed of a noun, a verb, and 9/11.

Or, perhaps, if we suddenly were all non-nuclear, all those nice contractors and fearmongers would find themselves without one of their greatest selling points. That can't be good for the economy.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing: aside from politicians getting to posture, about the only benefactors to nuclear arsenals are Raytheon/General Dynamics-type contractors.

[silveradept]

And Eisenhower knew about what happened with them long before anyone here had an inkling that they would dominate what we now call "national security".

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

Was "non-nuclear" inclusive of power production as well in the first quote? It's not particularly clear.