Posted on 04/05/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by lbryce
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in self defense.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.
Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.
Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those adopted by his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.
It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.
Those threats, he argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options” -- a combination of old and newly designed conventional weapons.
“I’m going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure,” Mr. Obama said during the interview in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Seven Days in May” may be prophetic.
General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you?
True that.
He needs removal from office immediately. Then Biden. Then Pelosi. Then Reid.
Ummmm..., well, the problem was... he was elected -- when he should have never been elected in the first place.
So, when you say "he needs removal from office immediately..." I'm wondering who is going to be doing that removal, considering all those who voted for him in the first place?
John McCain. “We have nothing to fear from an obama presidency”
God help us all.
FUBO!!!!!!
Wolverines!!!!!!!
“...American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in self defense...even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.”
Oh my!
So let’s expose even more Americans and it’s soldiers to possible death because this traitor won’t defend our people with the weapons it has! Why? Because we’re evil Americans and how dare we defend ourselves! We all deserve to die because we’ve been too successful, remember?
We had all feared the 0, the latent diabolical Anbti-Americanism that pulsated from within his soulless treasonous black heart.
The nightmarish poltical reality we had all feared about the 0, has now been revealed released from the 0's Pandora's Box of poltical, treason, America-self hatred unprecedented in our republic.
LET US NOT PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH, WELL-BEING.
What an unmitigating disaster for Americsa we'd seen the very being a closet
Only if we get them before they get us...
There is a bright side. A strike would most likely take out Obama’s (and by proxy, the Democrats) strongest power bases. Then the rest of us could get on with living our lives.
He can’t be impeached because he’s not really President.
It would seem that some here (who say Obama is not the President) are caught between a "rock and a hard place" ... because they say they can't impeach him because he's not really the President -- and -- he keeps doing thing as President... now that's a real "Catch 22" doncha know ... :-)
It’s only a matter of time. Too many people know, he had scores of people scrubbing, fixing, hiding, sealing, bribing, blackmailing, paying off, etc. When that many people know secrets, then when the ship starts to sink, not all will want to go down with it.
The dam is already getting cracks. He’s revealing himself more and more as a psychotic enemy of the US.
Who has the stinking gonads to actually bring up papers of impeachment on our side?
Yeah... like that's going to go through the House on a vote ... LOL ...
I do not think any of us sane minded people want a nuclear war.
But to see him telegraph our strategic doctrine publicly where our opponents can estimate our level of deterrent is self defeating.
What is he thinking???
I would never pray for that. I pray that he will start reaping his karma asap.
Don’t kid yourselves folks this has been planned and on the books for some time. It is being released now to knock the Alcoa, Deere, Caterpillar, AT&T, and other corporations who are announcing huge hits from Obamacare.
This position is in place and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it — even if we win in November. Stay focused on healthcare and the numbers being put out by these companies. People losing jobs, doctors leaving their practices, retirees being dumped onto the public dole, increases in ‘real taxes’ to the middle class, and an ultimate road to rationing are the reason Congress needs to changes hands in November. We need to keep that front and center and not let Obama and his MSM shills move on to this and the next topic surely to hit at the beginning of next week.
They are rolling out their campaign to sell Obamacare by drowning out all the bad news with the help of MSM. Don’t let it happen. Keep your letters on the Health care monstrosity. Keep your calls about how much money this will cost and how care has to suffer - the numbers don’t lie. 30 Million new patients and only hundreds of doctors to take them.
What is he thinking? It’s obvious. He’s trying to destroy the United States of America, and doing a pretty good job of it so far.
Oops, meant the above comment to you.
Days of lack of sleep is catching up with me.
Almost every person I know has purchased multiple firearms this part year and most are stocking up on survival gear and rations.
Hopefully we will never need them although my gut tells me very bad bad things are ahread.
Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs
February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com
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 full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:
Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win 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 [they are NOT on "hair-trigger alert" now -etl], and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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"I will not weaponize space"
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"
2008 Pentagon Report (March 2008):
China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
March 6, 2008
GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.
Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.
Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."
To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], see U.S. Dept of Defense:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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