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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Are the American people really that dumb and apathetic?
YES
BuHuHaHa!
Naive....Very Scary...
Will Not Trust My Security to This Man or His Party...
Security is the Issue.
When nukes are banned, only lawbreakers will have nukes.
Obama is a far-left lib straight out of 1970!!!!
Obama graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, the same den of idiocy that welcomed the Iranian head terrorist to speak on campus. Nuf said?
Idiot is right. Let’s see...
Liberal Idiot Problem - Let’s eliminate Nukes to make it fairer for the entire world.
End result - We can finally get back to fighting with massive ground campaigns like WWII.
Uh, yeah.
There is only one way to rid the world of nukes. If everyone used all their nukes at once, there would be no more nukes!!! How brilliant!!! What a plan. It would also get rid of most mosquitoes and federal and state taxes as well.
Then the cockroaches and amobea could evolve, start over and eventually - we’d have nukes again.
Zat whatcha wanna do B.O.?
Where is my pony?
Could he actually believe that other countries would eliminate their nuclear weapons just because we cut down ours? What a stupid man.
End result is America gets nuked as a result of not having a deterrent. Or in other words, we die.
It’s being silkified
Let me make sure I understand this correctly.
If only the US would reduce its stockpile of nuclear weapons, the terrorists of the world--being basically good and decent folks--would no doubt find the example inspiring, and immediately abandon their desire to destroy all non-Islamist states.
Got it.
I think.
Ubama, you ignorant misguided.......
Obama stopped wearing his flag lapel pin too, the flag is now “false” Patriotism
Yep. I used to think he was devious and evil. He might be those, but mostly he's just the dumbest 45 year old man anywhere on the planet.
Around my house, our nickname for him is “the dumbest 46 year old in the world.”
His opponent was Alan Keyes...nuff said.
His mom dropped him when he was a baby. what a dumb steaming pile of dung he is. He’s the next Jimmy Carter!
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