George Bush is the most dangerous president in U.S. history, theologian says

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- John Swomley, who teaches Christian ethics at the St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, has written an indictment of the Bush administration's foreign policy that includes actual plans to use nuclear bombs as pre-emptive weapons.

It is essential, he says in a magazine article, for Americans to understand that the administration has directed the military to prepare plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries--China, Russia, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Libya and Iraq.

Swomley warns that Americans shouldn't accept the argument that these nukes are small and won't be all that horrific.

"Nuclear weapons, even if they are smaller than those of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, will not only kill on impact, but raise immense radioactive dust, with the terrible results of slow, agonizing death from radiation," he writes. The U.S. Senate has already approved Bush's request to lift a 10-year ban on research, development and production of nuclear weapons of less than five kilotons.

Swomley quotes defense budget analyst Bill Donahue, who says that the United States is spending roughly $5.8 billion on nuclear weapons this year and that the Los Alamos National Laboratories have been told to begin developing "earth penetrator" mini-nukes even before seeking permission from Congress.

Swomley says that Bush is bent on building an American empire as envisioned by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield, his underlings Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, Vice President Dick Cheney and State Department hawks Richard Armitage and John Bolton. Their philosophy is pre-emptive war, unilateral action and world domination.

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