I Say Old Chap, Who's For A Bit Of Nuking Pakistan?

[Anubis]

Let's start armageddon by dropping a bomb on another nuclear power! And home in time for tea and crumpets.

 

 

Lord Gilbert Suggests Dropping A Neutron Bomb On Pakistan-Afghanistan Border

 

 

Lord Gilbert Suggests Dropping A Neutron Bomb On Pakistan-Afghanistan Border

 

Posted: 26/11/2012

 

 

A former Labour defence minister has suggested threatening to drop a neutron bomb on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in order to crack down on terrorism by creating a impassible barrier between the two countries.

 

Speaking in the House of Lords on Thursday, Lord Gilbert said Britain could use the radiation warheads "to create cordons sanitaire along various borders where people are causing trouble".

 

"Your Lordships may say that this is impractical, but nobody lives up in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan except for a few goats and a handful of people herding them," he said.

 

"If you told them that some ERRB warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there.

 

"You would greatly reduce your problem of protecting those borders from infiltration from one side or another.

 

"These things are not talked about, but they should be, because there are great possibilities for deterrence in using the weapons that we already have in that respect."

 

Neutron bombs are a type of thermonuclear weapon designed to kill people while leaving physical structures such as buildings in tact.

 

Responding for the government Lord Wallace said the coalition did not share the "rumbustious views" of Gilbert.

 

Gilbert, who served Tony Blair in the late 1990s as a defence minister and was a member Intelligence and Security Committee while he was an MP, said he did not favour a nuclear-free world.

 

"I am absolutely delighted that nuclear weapons were invented when they were and I am delighted that, with our help, it was the Americans who invented them," he explained.

 

"If we think of a world in which they had not been invented, it is very easy indeed to see world war three starting on many occasions after 1945."

[Chip Butty]

[melons]

Can we not start by bombing Wrexham as a test case?

[ZonkoVille77]

That's some statement !

Some old codgers talk shit big style.

[Joe Le Taxi]

I'm in.

[Guest davelfc]

Hadrian's wall anyone?

[Magic Sponge]

He's probably named his daughter Enola Gay.

[Trumo]

He's probably named his daughter Enola Gay.

 

And has a Little Boy under his desk?*

 

 

 

 

*Of course that is baseless shite. A bit like suggesting nuking Pakistan.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Can we not start by bombing Wrexham as a test case?

 

Spy Bee thought tbe Tough Mudder was tough. Imagine trying to get out of Wrexham after a bombing.

 

Especially with all that rain lately.

[Section_31]

Old school establishment talk, quality.

[Newport]

Can't they just put up a sonar fence like the one on Lost?

[Kevin D]

Old school establishment talk, quality.

 

Was just going to say it's interesting that an extremely well credentialed man can speak like this in public, because if a BNP candidate said the exact same thing there would be calls for him to be arrested.

[Section_31]

Was just going to say it's interesting that an extremely well credentialed man can speak like this in public, because if a BNP candidate said the exact same thing there would be calls for him to be arrested.

 

It's Sharpe villain talk of the highest order, he needs kneeing in the bollocks by Sean Bean.

[Rapey Hugh]

No doubt Sean bean would die halfway through the attempt.

[Fugitive]

I'm well up for the bombing of Wales.

[melons]

Spy Bee thought tbe Tough Mudder was tough. Imagine trying to get out of Wrexham after a bombing.

 

Especially with all that rain lately.

 

He's got out of Wrexham unharmed after a night out, Tough Mudder and a barren radio active post apocalyptic escape of land should be a walk in the park after that!

 

 

 

I'm well up for the bombing of Wales.

 

Just the border sweeite.

[setreal]

You guys are seriously still muckin about with all this "Lord"-shenanigans? Jesus wept.

[RedinSweden]

Woah. That's English for stop a horse.

 

If we do bomb Wrexham, which is a great idea, can we make sure that the strike is contained in that area. Don't want anything in Shrewsbury harmed.

[Elmyn Noos]

Can't we just drop Wrexham on Pakistan?

[Uncle_Meat]

I'm well up for the bombing of Wales.

 

Airburst thermonuclear devices get my vote. Might dry the place out a bit.

[skend04]

Proves there's lunatics in every party...i vote for wiping out Dudley and most the black country. it truly has no use.

[Baltar]

Should test this in Bradford first to see if it actually has any effect on the Pakistani's. Just because the Japs suffered from nuclear explosions doesn't mean other Asians would too.

[Jim MM]

All joking aside, I find this very worrying. Nuclear radiation in Pakistan would seriously fuck up the quality of their international exports...

[RedinSweden]

Coventry. Test it there.

[skend04]

Coventry. Test it there.

 

My daughter lives in Coventry with my ex. So it'd have to be a no, unless its done on a day i'm able to take her out, would need some advance warning.