Posted on 03/01/2010 12:38:18 PM PST by bestintxas
The Obama administration is formulating a new nuclear weapons policy that would include the elimination of thousands of warheads and the possible withdrawal of all tactical warheads from Europe.
Obama is also under pressure to abandon the Bush Doctrine allowing preemptive action, including the use of nuclear weapons, against any nation threatening American security, The New York Times reported on Monday. The new strategy will be included in a document called the Nuclear Posture Review, which every president must complete.
It will be clear in the document that there will be very dramatic reductions in the thousands as related to the stockpile, a senior administration official told the Times. Many of those warheads are in storage.
The administration is also discussing whether to withdraw American nuclear weapons from Europe, where they provide more political reassurance than actual defense, according to the Times.
A number of influential Democrats, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, are urging Obama to declare that the sole purpose of Americas nuclear arsenal is to deter a nuclear attack.
But some officials in the Pentagon and the White House want Obama to declare that deterring a nuclear attack is the primary, but not the only, purpose of the arsenal.
Any compromise wording that leaves in place elements of the Bush-era preemption policy, or suggests the United States could use nuclear weapons against a nonnuclear adversary, would disappoint many on the left wing of his party, and some arms control advocates, the Times disclosed.
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God help us.
We need to remove him first. Nov 2 2010 begins this process.
Obamao thinks he sees evil, and it is America. He thinks he is getting rid of the real evil, and he will be done when he gets rid of us.
Not sure he can do this unilaterally. Im sure Congress must have some say.
Removing them for sale to some anti-American State?
He’ll probably turn them on his enemies...
You know, pro-life, small gov’t conservatives.
“Obama is also under pressure to abandon the Bush Doctrine allowing preemptive action, including the use of nuclear weapons, against any nation threatening American security”
The pre-emptive action law was voted on by a Republican led congress and signed into law by President Clinton. It is not the Bush doctrine. It was the Clinton doctrine.
He’s betraying his oath to this nation.
Consider that Hussein, and all his minions at DND are privy to every secret program and every top secret the nation possesses. Does that fact help you sleep at night?
Let's face reality, all of the power players and power player wantabe's are doing it except us.
IMO ... FUBO is knowingly setting us up for a take over.
What about the right to RESPOND with nuclear weapons to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack? What about unleashing nuclear weapons in the last defense of America, if we suffered a conventional defeat, leading to a possible invasion?
And if our Primary purpose is to DETER nuclear attack, why would we reduce our nuclear stockpile to such a low level that a nuclear attack upon us would have a much greater chance of succeeding, therefore becoming more plausible?
From about 20,000 in 2001, we dropped to 5,400 now. (As near as I can tell from quick searches.) Thousands from that would yield at most 2400 active.
There was a period of time during the Peanut Presidency when many in the rank and file, including me, doubted our "leader" would have to stones to use nukes in the event of a Sov conventional attack on Western Europe, but he never actually renounced it.
“Yakum purkan min shemaya”(in Aramaic: “Our Deliverance will come from Heaven”). It certainly won’t come rfrom the politb..I mean Congress..
We need to win the November elections to check any of it.
He and the commucrats have been doing that ever since they have been elected.
I just wonder how much more We the People and the military can take before things become a bit less civil.
THE KGB Manchurian deep mole strikes again.
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