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Obama to Urge Elimination of World’s Nuclear Weapons
The New York Times ^ | October 2, 2007 | Jeff Zeleny

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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To: RobFromGa

My dog has more smarts than this guy!


21 posted on 10/02/2007 3:21:13 AM PDT by plumcrazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, burnt toast. I guess he’s been so impressed about how making college campuses gun-free zones has proven so effective at protecting the resultant sheep that he wants to make us into a nuke-free sheep farm.


22 posted on 10/02/2007 3:24:10 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: 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.

That is about as smart as simply giving away land for peace. Senator Obama is among those actually believing that Marxist ideas can work even though they have failed 100% of the time. It seems that Democrats love to implement proven failed policies. Are the American people really that dumb and apathetic?

23 posted on 10/02/2007 3:25:53 AM PDT by olezip
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To: DB

Sounds like a gun grabber on a massive scale....

When Nukes are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nukes.


24 posted on 10/02/2007 3:27:25 AM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: DB

An empty suit. A media creation.


25 posted on 10/02/2007 3:29:57 AM PDT by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: olezip

Someone said that liberals employ childhood emotions to deal with adult problems. This empty suit is a good example of that.


26 posted on 10/02/2007 3:33:48 AM PDT by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama to Urge Elimination of World’s Nuclear Weapons

I think he should start with Elimination of World Hunger.

Then he should move on to Elimination of Sin.

Then he should Eliminate Satan.

After that, he can call himself the Messiah.


27 posted on 10/02/2007 3:47:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
OK children, what would you do if  you would be the President?   Obama...? Any thoughts...?

 

28 posted on 10/02/2007 3:50:15 AM PDT by OneHun
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To: ought-six

He’s always been an empty suit. I always write his name with that inserted between first and last name.

But he’s not toast actually. He’s now the leading contender. For V.P.

Because although he has no real experience, he speaks well, can write pretty well and holds all the religious views dear to the left. Like this one.

The other is he is a daily communicant of the holy sacrament of abortion. He’s always a part of that well too.

What’s completely overlooked is how poor the Democrats are in their “top” tier of candidates. Hard to believe that a major party can put only this up for President.


29 posted on 10/02/2007 3:53:57 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Between this nonsense and Hillary’s “$5000 per child bond” it’s like a contest to see which one can sound most like George McGovern.


30 posted on 10/02/2007 3:57:13 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: SkyPilot
Then he should Eliminate Satan

Hey, I'm all for eliminating Hiliarly.
31 posted on 10/02/2007 4:09:33 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In setting a goal of eliminating nuclear weapons in the world, Mr. Obama is endorsing a call for “urgent new actions” to prevent a new nuclear era that was laid out in January in a commentary in The Wall Street Journal written by several former government officials. The authors of the article were George P. Shultz, secretary of state in the Reagan administration; Henry Kissinger, secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations; William J. Perry, secretary of defense in the Clinton administration; and Sam Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Shultz -86 yo.
Kissinger - 84 yo
Perry - turns 80 in nine days
Nunn - Just a kid @ 69.

Pie-in-the-sky is just as appetizing in one's twilight years as in youth.

32 posted on 10/02/2007 4:10:23 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was already tried in Superman 4. This will go to a similar fate.


33 posted on 10/02/2007 4:11:41 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (Dem-conomics 101: Overtax the productive and distribute to the wasteful. (ref: TFLABO))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Traitor!


34 posted on 10/02/2007 4:11:49 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HHHHAAAAA!


35 posted on 10/02/2007 4:13:26 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can we all have candy and pop with that nuclear peace? (Extremely dense and HEAVY sarcasm)

LLS

36 posted on 10/02/2007 4:13:42 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He pledged to make michael moore is SoS! Soros will be UN Ambassador... el renio is coming back to run justice again!

What a guy!

LLS

37 posted on 10/02/2007 4:16:26 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What does he think this is? Superman IV?


38 posted on 10/02/2007 4:18:04 AM PDT by RockinRight (Can we start calling Fred "44" now, please?)
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To: romanesq

Never mind President — I find it depressing that some one with this level of ignorance and failure to grasp reality got enough votes in any state to become a US Senator.


39 posted on 10/02/2007 4:24:03 AM PDT by L,TOWM ("Protesting Clinton's wars was'nt cool..." - Jeneane Garafolo, 2003)
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To: mware

This is undoubtedly the most stupid man ever to have run for the presidency in the nuclear era.


40 posted on 10/02/2007 4:27:19 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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