Posted on 02/19/2010 5:38:08 AM PST by bestintxas
The Obama administration will move ahead with Senate ratification of a treaty banning nuclear tests that was voted down by Republicans more than a decade ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. said Thursday.
In a speech setting out the administration's arms-control agenda, Mr. Biden also said the United States will continue to pursue President Obama's call for the elimination of all U.S. nuclear arms, but defended spending $7 billion in the coming year to repair an aging arsenal.
The administration is close to reaching a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia, and is nearing completion of a review of U.S. nuclear weapons forces, Mr. Biden said at the National Defense University.
"Our agenda is based on a clear-eyed assessment of our national interest," Mr. Biden said. "We have long relied on nuclear weapons to deter potential adversaries. Now, as our technology improves, we are developing non-nuclear ways to accomplish that same objective."
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Treaties require Senate ratification.
It can be defeated or later nullified when the adults are back in charge.
“”Now, as our technology improves, we are developing non-nuclear ways to accomplish that same objective.””
This is along the same lines as the new green technology that’s gonna save our economy even though it hasn’t been invented yet.
“Okay Lamaar. Let’s settle this like men”. - Sheriff Bart
“But I am unarmed”. - Hedley Lamaar
“Then will settle it with our fists”. - Sheriff Bart (throws down gun belt)
“Oh, I just remembered. I AM armed.” - Heddy
This is because obama mentioned nuclear power plants and is supposed to appease the peaceniks and the environazis, I’m sure.
This administration is becoming a cartoon of stupidity.
#492 in the How To Destroy America play book.
When the US is bankrupt and defenseless, do the Democrats think they will be eaten last?
I really DON’T get it!
The new congress, post November, will have a lot of reversals to do...
We really, really, really gotta' do something about this Biden ~ man is deranged. Must push harder to get control of the Congress this Fall.
These people are delusional idiots. As if giving up your ability to resist will sway the murderers and robbers from robbing and killing you anyway. These people are totally dangerous. They have turned the country into a suicide pact.
Democrats can’t get it through their heads that nuclear weapons actually make the world safer. They’re so fixated on their drug induced visions of how things should be that they can’t see how they really are. This nuclear weapons thing is a huge example of this. It’s as if they have completely forgotten the road we were all on before nuclear weapons and now they want to get back on it. That isn’t progressive, that’s lost and clueless.
He is not intelligent enough to understand President Reagans statement “peace through strength”!!! God help us.
With the National Ignition Facility coming online, banning weapons tests could be positive for the US.
How about we take the House and Senate in November and end their dreams of the anti-America.
LLS
Why don’t we give the UN our nukes and conventional arms. They can distribute them according to need.
That is possible, but a very slim possibility.
The NeoCons' control of US foreign policy was very brief, beginning with the invasion of Iraq until Bush convened the Iraq Study Group and the NeoCons were replaced by Realists.
Obama campaigning on Realist policies defeated McCain campaigning on NeoCon policies.
Obama is not listening to to Cheney, Bolton, Wolfowitz, etc
Obama is listening to Gates, Kissinger, Scowcroft, etc.
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