Posted on 10/02/2007 2:47:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a reliance on nuclear weapons that have become “increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”
Mr. Obama, according to details provided by his campaign Monday, also will call for pursuing vigorous diplomatic efforts aimed at a global ban on the development, production and deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
“In 2009, we will have a window of opportunity to renew our global leadership and bring our nation together,” Mr. Obama is planning to say, according to an excerpt of remarks provided by his aides. “If we don’t seize that moment, we may not get another.”
His speech was to come one day after an announcement by the Bush administration that it had tripled the rate of dismantling nuclear weapons over the last year, putting the United States on track to reducing its stockpile of weapons by half by 2012.
The exact number of weapons being dismantled, like the overall stockpile, is secret, but officials said Monday that with the planned reductions, the total number of American nuclear weapons would be at the lowest levels since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.
Under a 2002 treaty, the United States and Russia agreed to limit the number of operational nuclear weapons in their arsenals to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012, though that agreement did not address weapons in reserve stockpiles.
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Just more evidence that Obama is naive and he is not ready for prime time. Plus, he’s a liberal. ‘Nuff said.
He’s a phony.
Bogus, that is.
OB1kNOb to Urge Elimination of Idiot’s Running for Presidency
Affirmative action at it’s finest...
All he needs to do is issue a presidential directive changing the values of the nuclear Strong Force and a smaller change in the Weak Force, and nobody will burn a pit, ever again.
No nukes ever.
This guy is a retard. Just plain 'ol stupid.
What Osama means is, the U.S. gets rid of its nuclear weapons....Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, et al. get to keep theirs and use them on U.S.
This comes just as our “friend” Vladimir is tightening his dictatorial grip on Russia, preparing for Cold War Act II. This Obama fool will no doubt insist on American unilateral disarmament as a “good will” gesture. This is beginning to bring back frightening memories of the Carter years.
Someone needs to tell Obama, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
To be fair, this proposal is no more or less idiotic than the $5,000 per child giveaway proposed by Hillary. The trouble is the pile of people out there who actually believe that both suggestions are good ideas.
I just cannot figure out these Dumbos Obammie and Hill spouting such crazy ideas....they can’t be that stoopid can they? Maybe just maybe we are receiving some help that will keep these fools out of power!
Yesterday I had finally had it with the bee infestation on my front porch. I called the pest elimination service and they came in and did the job - thousands of dead bees.
Shortly thereafter my doorbell rang. It was a wide-eyed Univ. of Washington student with a "Sierra Club" badge around his neck. He wanted to talk to me about Global Warming and get me to contribute to the cause.
You should have seen the look on his face when I told him; "Global Warming is a fraud, Al Gore is distorted propagandist...and, by the way, about an hour ago, I just had the porch fumigated to kill bees and your standing in a Super Fund toxic waste site."
My most effective job of getting rid of these pests ever...Sierra Club, not the bees!
HF
"The VP candidate thinks it would be a great idea if the US gave up it's nuclear weapons. The President of Iran agrees."
Hillary wants to give $5000 of your tax money to every baby born in the US, including babies of illegal aliens."
“Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.”
Oh, our nuclear stockpile is causing the threat of Nuclear terrorism to increase? I thought it was the other way around.
Seriously, Obama should go visit the CIA once in a while.
Our enemies couldn't find a better candidate!
Is this his “Amy Carter” momment? Or is that still pending?
Oh sure, but did Obama promise to end Global Warming.
What a simple solution.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?
Wait, I think I just answered my own question (simple)!
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