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Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Drawdown Could Run Afoul of the Law
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 11:18 AM | David Yonkman

Posted on 03/21/2013 1:04:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama’s efforts to significantly curtail U.S. nuclear weapons without seeking the proper Senate approval are at best misguided and worst illegal, sources tell Newsmax.

Obama is exploring opportunities to achieve the reductions in infrastructure and capability he seeks—including a drawdown to 1,000 weapons—without seeking the advice and consent of the Senate that international treaties require.

Efforts to push the boundaries of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia are ill-advised, sources say. A proposal that seeks to achieve nuclear arms reductions outside the framework of New START, however, would run afoul of the law. …

Pursuing additional nuclear reductions also could run afoul of the 1961 Arms Control and Disarmament Act, which requires congressional approval for nuclear-weapons disarmament. Furthermore, New START in particular singled out such projects as the Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Facility at Los Alamos, N.M. It was supposed to replace the aging Chemical and Metallurgy Research Facility to reconstitute the country’s ability to produce plutonium pits. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticenemy; liberalagenda; nukedrawdown; nukes; obama

1 posted on 03/21/2013 1:04:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Congress? We don’t need no stinkun Congress.

A HAIL KING BAM BAM


2 posted on 03/21/2013 1:06:23 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Olog-hai

Impeach this communists black Muslim! Fire his entire communists empire.


3 posted on 03/21/2013 1:08:11 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Olog-hai

“Follow the law”??

Thats a nice fairy tale.


4 posted on 03/21/2013 1:09:02 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Logical me
If its against some law, might it be perhaps treason?

Section. 4.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

5 posted on 03/21/2013 1:10:34 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Olog-hai
Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Drawdown Could Run Afoul of the Law

0bama don't abide by No Steenken' Law and congress won't say a peep . . . .

....except for maybe Rand and Ted Cruz.

6 posted on 03/21/2013 1:12:56 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: Olog-hai

Law? What law? There’s no law outside shariah...


7 posted on 03/21/2013 1:14:23 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Olog-hai

Communists make their own laws.

FUBO!!


8 posted on 03/21/2013 1:16:36 PM PDT by laplata
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To: Olog-hai

Boner says he trusts Obama.


9 posted on 03/21/2013 1:18:30 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Olog-hai

‘Follow the Law’ and (corrupt) Obama do not belong
in the same sentence.


10 posted on 03/21/2013 1:20:44 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama don’t need no steeenking laws.


11 posted on 03/21/2013 1:39:25 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
it's something controlled by a treaty ~ and the Russians are on the other end. They take actions consistent with the provisions and unless somebody wants them to take different actions, it's best to NOT give them a reason to repudiate it.

Obama probably doesn't understand that ~ and probably can't understand it. The man is terminally stupid.

12 posted on 03/21/2013 1:40:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Olog-hai
This is just more bovine excrement for the throngs of his uninformed zombies...red meat for the commies....

The guy is so full of SH!T his skin is brown.

13 posted on 03/21/2013 1:50:14 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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“Boner says he trusts Obama.”

Yeah, I trust him too...to do the wrong thing.


14 posted on 03/21/2013 2:56:47 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

Boner & McConnell have abandoned our party, and conservatives.


15 posted on 03/21/2013 2:58:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Olog-hai

Law? We don’t need no steeekin law!


16 posted on 03/21/2013 3:30:01 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Olog-hai

Who is going to punish him if he does not stop?


17 posted on 03/21/2013 6:31:18 PM PDT by knife6375 (US Navy Veteran)
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