Russia reserves opt-out of arms treaty with US

AP ^ | 4-6-10 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV,

[Anti-Hillary]

The new U.S.-Russian arms control treaty is a much better deal for Russia than its predecessor, but Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from it if a planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday.

[Anti-Hillary]

Oh this is great. Here's how it goes. Everyone signs. Obamao strips this country of it's nukes and 5 min. later Russia ops-out!!! This guy is gonna get us all killed!

[johniegrad]

Sergey Lavrov said Russia will issue a statement outlining the terms for such a withdrawal after President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the treaty Thursday in Prague.

Thank goodness this will get the same careful attention that the health care bill did.

[OB1kNOb]

As long as they nuke D.C. first (D.C. FReepers excepted).

[Hoodat]

Yet another example of Obama’s laziness. He lets Russia write the treaty, and all he has to do is sign it.

[Sacajaweau]

i want to know the inspection terms....trust but verify...

[EagleUSA]

This is just liberal insanity. Didn’t Carter and Clinton teach this loon anything when it comes to TRUSTING the commies and other nuke-capable madmen in the world??

[RC2]

Do you really think he cares? I don’t.

[Madame Dufarge]

They probably go something like this: they can look, we can't.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Thank goodness this will get the same careful attention that the health care bill did."

If you can't get your hands on lead, you can still protect yourself from the nuclear fallout by lining your house with a hundred or so copies of the health care legislation.

[jester221]

Don’t treaties have to be ratified in the Senate? He can’t do this all by his lonesome

[GraceG]

Depends if we can bribe the russians to only target the east and west coasts and leave the heartland alone.....

[1rudeboy]

All international treaties have recission clauses, if they are worth anything.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[longtermmemmory]

Obama made a fool AGAIN.

[Madame Dufarge]

They do, by a 2/3 vote.

We'll see.......

[Pan_Yan]

Didn’t Carter and Clinton teach this loon anything when it comes to TRUSTING the commies and other nuke-capable madmen in the world??

You are suffering from two Gross Conceptual Errors. First, liberals do not learn lessons from the past. Ever.
Second, your comment implies that they actually realize what failures Carter and Clinton were.

[Carry_Okie]

Patrick Henry "Ratified": The Treaty Power, Its Perils and Portents

[Thunder90]

“Treaties are like pie crusts, they are made to be broken”
-Vladimir Lenin

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!

[Carry_Okie]

Don’t treaties have to be ratified in the Senate?

According to "customary international law" per the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a nation agrees to abide by the treaty terms on signature alone. The USA never ratified that treaty, but has abided by its terms ever since it went into force. Hence George Bush's "unsigning" of the ICC Treaty.

See post 17.

[caseinpoint]

Well, Obama has not exactly proved he is a man of his word. Anyone looking at his record would be crazy to trust him, and the Russians are many things, but crazy isn’t one of them.