Posted on 12/31/2009 9:12:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise
...Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives.
Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech in Prague in April, vowing the U.S. would take dramatic steps to lead the way. Eight months later, the administration is locked in internal debate...
Officials in the Pentagon and elsewhere have pushed back against administration proposals to cut the number of weapons and narrow their mission....
The debate represents another collision between Obama's administration and key parts of the national security establishment, following earlier scrapes over troop levels in Afghanistan and missile defenses in eastern Europe...
Congress called for the nuclear review, the third such study since the end of the Cold War, and placed the Pentagon in charge. Similar reviews were conducted near the beginning of both the Clinton and the Bush administrations, but Obama's is the first in which substantial changes stand to be made both in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons and how they are used.
The government maintains an estimated 9,400 nuclear weapons, about 1,000 fewer than in 2002. But Obama believes that stepping up efforts to reduce the stockpile will give U.S. officials added credibility...
The timing of the administration debate is crucial, because a key international meeting on the treaty is planned for May in New York. Also looming next year are other elements of Obama's nuclear agenda, including renewal of an arms reduction treaty with Russia and a push for Senate ratification of a global ban on nuclear testing...
...was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in part because of expectations that he would make good on his pledge to reduce the nuclear threat...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Obama and his ilk think they can disagm us via neglect of our nuclear arsenal and research capacity.
We should be developing better nucs for special use..bunkers, EMP, Neutron, but no..we will let the Chinese get way ahead of us on those features, helped by Chinese spies.
Doe anyone know if the U.S. military has the option of refusing an order from the CIC if it endangers the U.S Security.
If this is such a KEY agenda item for him and something he reportedly pledged in his 2008 scampaign, why wasn’t there a single debate question about his plan to erridate America’s nuclear arsenal?
Oh that’s right, the liberals ran the show, there was no conservative led debate. I say seat a debate panel as you would a jury panel, both “teams” choose and reject persons for the “bench”.
I wonder if the “new” offensive weapons of the Russians will be nuclear? Obama probably thinks they are just big cherry bombs!
Somebody in the CIA or FBI or another government organization or even the Mossad has to have info on Barry’s background. I fervently hope that some Patriot will release this info sooner rather than later.
I dont get it. If Superman was able to do it in Superman IV, then why cant Obama?
ping
General James Mattoon Scott: I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naÔvetÈ, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. I have strong doubts, gentlemen.
General James Mattoon Scott: And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.
The idiot-in-chief is going to get us all killed.
Wow, I remember that scene.
I hope it is not fiction but the actual fact in this present day of danger to the Republic.
I fear it’s about to be true. We need a strong resistance to begin now.
Superman went on two dates with two different women at the same time in Superman IV as well.
Everyone else wants BHO to phase out OUR nukes. And BHO stands with just about anyone else.
He’s a red diaper doper baby who was not raised in this country. He has no love for America. Plain to see.
Just wanted to get my daily quote in: “Obama is the worst president in history”, there my deed is done for the day.
Miserable Failure
I.e., he has already issued...without any Congressional oversight disclosures or hearings,... some Executive Orders to dismantle our deterrent arsenal...and been confronted by those who are unwilling to recognize clearly treasonous orders as legitimate.
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