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So the Russkies get to keep their MIRV'd ten-warhead SS-18 Satan and SS-25s under this historic treaty, huh? No wonder, the Bushies and the Russkies were unable to agree on a title for this treaty since the only thing it does is put the Bush unilateral nuclear disarmament plan on paper and makes it legally binding and enforceable by the Russians. The only nuclear arms eliminated under this agreement will be US ones. A senior US official has already stated that the US will likely destroy the bulk of the 4300 stratnukes it withdraws from service under this treaty. They will probably keep several hundred in reserve as spares capable of being returned to service within a several month period. Anyway, the bottom line is that this treaty will go far to make the world safe for nuclear conflict by increasing the dangers of nuclear war with Russia. Bush was wrong to sign it. He should have listened to the wise counsel of his Secretary of Defense who in confirmation hearings in January 2001, questioned the need for any reductions to our nuclear arsenal.

The problem I have with these treaties is that they are with the wrong country. Russia is fast becoming a strategic partner, and it is hard to imagine a scenario today where we would go to war with each other.

China on the other hand is modernizing and building up it's military at a frightening pace. What we're going to find out ten years from now is that we have nothing to fear from the Russians, but because of unnecessary arms control agreements with them we are outgunned by the Chinese who are surely celebrating our stupidity. Imagine the negotiations next time one of our planes is forced down and we have 2,000 warheads and the Chinese have 20,000.

Each one of those warheads is a smaller yield weapon then one American city buster. Besides, why should the US be the only one able to pose a threat....try thinking through that hypocracy rationally...if you're capable of rational thought and not just hysterics.