YEAH, YEAH LETS NUKE 'EM!

It being Earth Day weekend, a little reminder of what is actually being discussed as a viable military option on the table seemed to be in order. From the UK Independent online edition:

More than a third of Britain is still contaminated by radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster two decades ago, and children are getting cancer as a result, an Independent on Sunday investigation has established.

Official measurements - published in a report launched in London yesterday - show that at least 34 per cent of the country will remain radioactive for centuries as the result of the accident, which took place 20 years ago on Wednesday.

The fallout and the radioactive particles don't discriminate, they don't fade away and they migrate a hellacious distance - over twelve hundred miles in the case noted above - courtesy of the whim and caprice that is Earth's climate. So, Mr. War Preznit, this is why you cannot nuke Tehran - or even strategeric (borrowing from your dyslexicon) parts thereof - without shrouding the entire Mid-East, including Israel and your bosom buddies at the House of Saud, in a glowing cloud of malignancy. Tell that to the neo-con cabal when they start pounding on you and unka Dick to push the button.

Oh, and, fundies, see below for why you're not going to get an E-ticket ride out of here before the toxic, ahem, stuff hits the fan.