It woz CND wot dun it
I think that someone posing as Kate Hudson, the Chairwoman of CND, has stolen her identity and posted in her name at Comment is Free. Because the piece is so hilariously stupid that it is clearly designed to make her look like an idiot:
Today we heard that the US has secretly withdrawn its 110 free-fall nuclear bombs from an RAF base at Lakenheath in Suffolk. The US has had nuclear bombs in Britain, under the guise of Nato, since the 1950s – outside any accountability or democratic control from the British government or parliament.
Why? Because:
And did you know that CND was also responsible for the removal of Cruise missiles? It's a really funny skit; I just wonder who wrote it - they have a future in satire.They have been the focus of protest since they first arrived and similar stocks in western European countries have also been the subject increasing protest.
As one of the commenters puts it:
Only now, 18 years after the end of the cold war, are American nukes being removed completely. Hooray! Britain has become a nuclear-weapon free zone has it?
It hasn't?
Oh
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Chris
June 26th, 2008 7:23pmGreat to see all those CND types and their Islamist fellow travellers protesting in the streets to persuade the peace loving Iranian regime of I'madinnerjacket to make Iran a nuclear free zone.
Or is it only American and British weapons which are to be disapproved of?
Thought so.
I remember a conversation back in the 80s with a card carrying Communist Party member and CND activist. I was raising the matter of Soviet SS-20s pointed at us. He was railing against US Tomahawk cruise missiles. He started to object to my naming the Soviet missiles as SS-20s.
'That's just a NATO name for them. It's not the Soviet name.'
'OK,' I said, 'what do the Soviets call them?'
There was a moment's boggling as he realised he didn't know.
'Liberators,' came his reply.
He was a primary school teacher by the way.
John
June 27th, 2008 11:17pmAnd the reason you don't think Kate Hudson is stupid enough to write it herself is ... ?
Peter Nicholls
July 2nd, 2008 3:41pmWhat exactly is the problem here? England and Wales (but not Scotland) are now NW-free. The withdrawal of US NW from Lakenheath follows a long period of campaigning. It was presumably done secretly (as with Greece) because the US does not wish to be seen as weakening its nuclear threats. Otherwise it could be celebrated by the UK government as a modest contribution to the disarmament to which we are officially committed.
There were (as in all these things) many factors that led to the earlier abandonment of the US cruise missiles in the UK; but the continued (& courageous) Greenham Common Women's camp with its high media profile was surely one of these factors. Public concern does have political effect if not as great as some would like. Or is democracy just a sham?
Please be careful. Nuclear weapons are too serious for facetiousness.