Family values update

March 30, 2017

tags: #nuclearban, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nikki Haley, nuclear ban treaty, nuclear weapons

by John Loretz

Moms for Nukes to close up shop after protests from children?

I got an e-mail from one of our Australian doctors who said he was “horrified” by US ambassador Nikki Haley’s comments (exact phrase redacted) Monday.

“I told my seven-year-old son that the US wanted to keep nuclear weapons ‘for their children.’ He asked me whether anyone had asked the children whether they wanted them, because he doesn’t! Out of the mouths of babes…..”

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