Reply #16: Um How big? (Gen Franks - WMD attack = military rule)

[mulethree]

http://www.vallejonews.com/articles/index.cfm?artoid=145212

Franks, the former commander of the military's Central Command warned that if terrorists successfully used a weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. or anywhere else in the "Western world", it would have grave consequences for our republican form of government.

If such an event were to happen, Franks stated, "...the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."

Franks continues and says,"It means that the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution."