Posted on 11/30/2008 7:24:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON - It is a simple transfer of immense power.
On Jan. 20, an unobtrusive military officer carrying a small leather-bound metal briefcase will follow President George W. Bush up to Capitol Hill. After the inauguration ceremony, he will accompany President Barack Obama back to the White House.
Inside the attaché, known as "the football," are the codes to identify and authenticate a presidential order that could launch nuclear weapons and ignite a global holocaust.
Routine to us, perhaps astonishing to much of the world, this peaceful passing of "the football" will propel Obama into a maelstrom. What awaits the new commander in chief is the weighty responsibility of defending the United States - and a nasty brew of nuclear weapons problems that range from the threat of terrorist attacks to potential new regional and superpower arms races. Iran and North Korea are rushing headlong toward building nuclear arsenals. And the main arms reduction treaty with Russia expires next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Steven King, on his best day, couldn’t write anything this scary.
I hope he doesn’t lose the codes like clinton did.
What was that all about?
In reading the article one has to wonder how bad the twitch in his face is going to become...he is not equipped to handle the football.
“The most sober and startling I ever heard,” Ronald Reagan said after his first briefing on the nuclear options - so disturbing that it helped launch him on a quest to abolish nuclear weapons altogether.”
Clinton forgot the codes.
Sweet dreams! Not a good thing to read before bedtime.
Fumbling the football.
Carter sent the codes to the dry cleaner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/07/28/nosplit/ftqi128.xml
Can’t we just give obama a placebo football?
Big Mouth biden will get a set of codes, too.
Uh, too late I'm afraid. Way too late.
“But it’s worse than that. Deep in the bowels of the CIA, someone must be nervously, but very privately, wondering: “Whatever happened to those nuclear blueprints we gave to the Iranians?””
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/jan/05/energy.g2
forgot to add the part about whose watch this supposedly happened under:
“The story dates back to the Clinton administration and February 2000, when one frightened Russian scientist walked Vienna’s winter streets. The Russian had good reason to be afraid. He was walking around Vienna with blueprints for a nuclear bomb.”
> Can’t we just give obama a placebo football?
We could give him a basketball. That’s all he did in Iraq when he visited our troops.
Let's be fair. You really can't blame President Reagan, and the codes were under government control.
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