4/12/10: Hillary is on Damage Control Duty

Less than a week after the Obama administration announced it was narrowing the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons - even in self-defense - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is doing damage control for President Bow n' Tax:

The revised nuclear policy says that the United States will not use nuclear weapons to respond to a chemical or biological attack from a non-nuclear country. The policy, however, leaves significant contingencies, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates…

“We were concerned about the biological weapons,” Gates said, “and that’s why the president was very clear … if we see states developing biological weapons that we begin to think endanger us or create serious concerns, that he reserves the right to revise this policy.”

Clinton added, “If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.”

Gates also pointed out that the policy dictates that any country that uses chemical or biological weapons against the U.S. will “suffer a devastating conventional retaliation.”

Source: Hot Air

Yeah, riiiight. This is the same faux-tough talk that Eric Holder used to justify moving the KSM trials to New York City:

“I have every confidence the nation and the world will see him for the coward he is. I’m not scared of what [Mohammed] will have to say at trial—and no one else needs to be either.”

Source: The Daily Beast

Hmm... Holder isn't scared of KSM and if we are hit with a chem/bio attack, "all bets are off." Sounds like a bunch of cowboys are running the show, if you believe the rhetoric...

So, who do you believe? A Secretary of State who nags Canada about its Afghanistan policy while calling for more abortions, or the ideologically-driven president who has been calling for the dismantling of America's military since he was a coke-snorting college radical?

And don't forget this: