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Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs
Missilethreat.com ^ | feb29, 2008 | unknown

Posted on 02/29/2008 8:05:43 PM PST by prophetic

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense. The video is incomplete, and its origin is unknown, although some have speculated it may have come from someone within the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

...I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; barackobama; cicobama; election; husseinobama; military; missile; nobama; obama; waronterror
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If this dont sink this creep I wonder what will.
1 posted on 02/29/2008 8:05:46 PM PST by prophetic
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To: prophetic

Ha....some change indeed.


2 posted on 02/29/2008 8:08:05 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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To: prophetic

Well, the GOP has to do a good job of reminding people that national security matters, which apparently it does not to Obama.


3 posted on 02/29/2008 8:08:22 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: prophetic

Cut future combat systems (FCS). What an idiot. Just where does he think our superiority and dominance comes from? The tooth fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? Freaking dolt wants to take us back to the hollow military of the Carter years. I sure hope this does sink him — but it isn’t getting much press.


5 posted on 02/29/2008 8:08:53 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: prophetic

HUSSEIN Obama wants America weak so his allies in Al-Queda can strike.


7 posted on 02/29/2008 8:10:40 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: prophetic
Obama's change will be a weaker America.

But we will have hope.

8 posted on 02/29/2008 8:11:24 PM PST by Jorge
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Yeah....hoping for a return to the PAST!!!!


9 posted on 02/29/2008 8:12:14 PM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: Jorge

“But we will have hope.”

And we will have “change”.


10 posted on 02/29/2008 8:13:49 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: prophetic

B.O. Stinks.


11 posted on 02/29/2008 8:14:57 PM PST by dadgum (Is that your Beeber?)
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To: diamond6

Hope. Hope that our enemies, who have pledged their lives and honor to destroying us, will not keep their word. Swell.


12 posted on 02/29/2008 8:15:32 PM PST by Reaganesque (What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde)
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To: prophetic

I wonder if all the people who are anti-McCain are going to still “write-in” their candidate knowing we will lose.


13 posted on 02/29/2008 8:15:35 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: prophetic
Allow me to translate:

I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.

I will surrender in Iraq. Pronto.

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will pour hundreds of billions of dollars down the toilet in a renewed War on Poverty.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.

I will ensure the Red Chinese get the jump on us. We don't need no stinkin' military. We need hope and change.

14 posted on 02/29/2008 8:17:13 PM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert,

He does not need to negotiate with Russia to do this. They are not on hair-trigger alert now. However, he might seek to negotiate with them as a way to give the Russians some big advantage for nothing. He is hopelessly naive.

15 posted on 02/29/2008 8:17:52 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Adding comments has been disabled for this video.

Gee, why do you think they disabled it??/SC

16 posted on 02/29/2008 8:18:09 PM PST by SweetCaroline (Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the #itch up with cookies.)
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Well given that they may be made offshore this could be a very very goof thing!

If the fuel Tanker Project stays with French/Muslims , Obama will win as president of the United States.


17 posted on 02/29/2008 8:22:36 PM PST by NoLibZone (If the Clinton years were so great for the libs- why is Obama doing so well?)
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To: prophetic
Lord have mercy on us all.


18 posted on 02/29/2008 8:36:12 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: diamond6
"But we will have hope.”"

Yeah well I will have "hope" too. I will be hoping we don't get attacked by terrorists.

"And we will have “change”."

Yep. Change from strength to weakness.

19 posted on 02/29/2008 8:39:21 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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To: dadgum

He sure as hell don’t love this country like I do. CIC nuts this guy should be run out of the country.


20 posted on 02/29/2008 8:44:38 PM PST by Big Horn (Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal . Author unknown)
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