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Obama Plans to Eliminate ‘Thousands’ of U.S. Nuclear Warheads(How long until U.S. to be undefended?)
newsmax ^ | 3/1/10 | Jim Meyers

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 America’s 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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The Commander-In-Chief is a squishy see-no-evil idiot-in-chief.

God help us.

1 posted on 03/01/2010 12:38:18 PM PST by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas

We need to remove him first. Nov 2 2010 begins this process.


2 posted on 03/01/2010 12:40:05 PM PST by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: bestintxas

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.


3 posted on 03/01/2010 12:41:27 PM PST by pallis
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To: bestintxas
Posture Review? Like this?


4 posted on 03/01/2010 12:41:49 PM PST by naturalized
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To: bestintxas

Not sure he can do this unilaterally. Im sure Congress must have some say.


5 posted on 03/01/2010 12:41:50 PM PST by 556x45
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To: bestintxas

Removing them for sale to some anti-American State?


6 posted on 03/01/2010 12:42:06 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: bestintxas

He’ll probably turn them on his enemies...

You know, pro-life, small gov’t conservatives.


7 posted on 03/01/2010 12:42:16 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: bestintxas

“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.


8 posted on 03/01/2010 12:42:22 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: bestintxas

He’s betraying his oath to this nation.


9 posted on 03/01/2010 12:47:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: bestintxas
You asked: "How long until U.S. to be undefended?"

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?

10 posted on 03/01/2010 12:49:44 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: edcoil
Maybe this is a good idea. We need to modernize our warheads and there's no way the tree huggers will ever let that happen. However if our deterrence posture is actually compromised then the following administration will find it much easier to build new warheads.

Let's face reality, all of the power players and power player wantabe's are doing it except us.

11 posted on 03/01/2010 12:50:42 PM PST by Taylor42
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To: bestintxas

IMO ... FUBO is knowingly setting us up for a take over.


12 posted on 03/01/2010 12:51:22 PM PST by clamper1797 (Would you hold my hand ... If I saw you in heaven ... to my angel in heaven)
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This idea of declaring that the only purpose of America's nuclear arsenal is to DETER a nuclear attack is absurd.

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?

13 posted on 03/01/2010 12:51:39 PM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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The Commander-In-Chief is a squishy see-no-evil idiot-in-chief.

There. Fixed it.
14 posted on 03/01/2010 12:56:53 PM PST by Dewey Revoltnow (Worst. Community. Organizer. Ever!)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

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.


15 posted on 03/01/2010 12:57:42 PM PST by Ingtar (Reckon the process will be silly - Reckonsilliation)
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To: BushMeister
Every President since the Cold War has reserved the right to first use of nukes if NATO were attacked. As a practical matter we needed that capability because of the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Warsaw Pact troops over NATO.

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.

16 posted on 03/01/2010 12:59:30 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: bestintxas

“Yakum purkan min shemaya”(in Aramaic: “Our Deliverance will come from Heaven”). It certainly won’t come rfrom the politb..I mean Congress..


17 posted on 03/01/2010 1:00:07 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: 556x45
Um, congress is pushing him further to the left.

We need to win the November elections to check any of it.

18 posted on 03/01/2010 1:03:07 PM PST by JasonC
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To: a fool in paradise
He’s betraying his oath to this nation.

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.

19 posted on 03/01/2010 1:05:15 PM PST by bayliving (No Obama. Know peace.)
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To: bestintxas

THE KGB Manchurian deep mole strikes again.


20 posted on 03/01/2010 1:08:22 PM PST by MrDem (Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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