Posted on 07/06/2009 11:15:29 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a preliminary agreement Monday to reduce the world's two largest nuclear stockpiles by as much as a third, to the lowest levels of any U.S.-Russia accord, and counter what Obama called "a sense of drift" in the countries' relations.
"We must lead by example, and that's what we are doing here today," Obama declared in Kremlin hall glittering in gold. "We resolve to reset U.S.-Russian relations so that we can cooperate more effectively in areas of common interest."
The document signed by the two leaders at a Moscow summit, Obama's first in Russia, is meant as a guide for negotiators as the nations work toward a replacement pact for the START arms control agreement that expires in December. The joint understanding also commits the updated treaty to lower longer-range missiles for delivering nuclear bombs to between 500 and 1,100. The limit for warheads would be in a range of 1,500 to 1,675 each. However, there are disagreements on what to count.
Medvedev called Monday's agreement a "reasonable compromise."
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"Naivety by our President can be dangerous for your health."
Does he actually trust Russia to follow through?
0 is going to make the Russians revise their opinion of JFK upwards. They thought he was a naive punk...
We had better figure out a way to impeach this Marxist psychopath.
I’d love to know how the US intends on verifying that Russia is reducing its stockpiles and how. Does giving the weapons to other countries count?
Anyone who does not love America enough to defend her has NO BUSINESS being President of the United States of America. Are you listening Zero?
You could just see Medvadev gloating that he had such a rube to deal with now. A community organizer from Chicago who enthralled elderly black women with his “expertise” will find it harder to deal with ex-KGB types. Our country is doomed to suffer because of the corrupt election of ‘08. We should have been in the streets like the Iranians.
BO doesn’t care if Russia complies.
His only concern is undermining America’s “arrogant” superpower status.
He really believes that dishonorable, untrustworthy people will suddenly became honorable, trustworthy folks because HE is our "messiah". He has **** for brains.
“We had better figure out a way to impeach this Marxist psychopath.”
I don’t recall one word said about this beforehand.
Transparency?
I hope the republican senators raise hell. This is a national security blunder.
He has to be stopped ... somehow ... .
I think I read this book....it doesn’t end well.
I was reading yesterday that 0bama plans to immediately implement the terms of this agreement, without Senate approval, by using Executive order.
Yet another end-run around the US Constitutional mandate that the Senate approve all Treaties.
When can we impeach him? OH - wait - that won’t happen, he has 60 bodies in the Senate...
The Cold War is over:
We won
Russia lost.
So this moron “resets” things to give them a do-over!
What an ass!
A child's notion of international politics.
vaudine
Either that or he is very smart and doing a great job of destroying us.
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