Posted on 04/05/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by lbryce
WASHINGTON President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in self defense.
But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for outliers like Iran and North Korea that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.
Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.
Mr. Obamas strategy is a sharp shift from those adopted by his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nations nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.
It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a crippling cyberattack.
Those threats, he argued, could be deterred with a series of graded options -- a combination of old and newly designed conventional weapons.
Im going to preserve all the tools that are necessary in order to make sure that the American people are safe and secure, Mr. Obama said during the interview in the Oval Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He truly is on a mission to destroy this nation/
Toilets overflow everywhere. Seems like everyday this administration floods the Nation with crap. As we progress to clear in one area, another blockage forms somewhere else. THIS SEWAGE STINKS !!!
There wont be any FUTURE citizens of this country is we dont impeach him.
Well..., right off the bat, you've got a problem with some other FReepers, who have posted right here on this thread. The "thinking" there is that "you cannot impeach Obama!"
Yeah, that's right. There are FReepers telling you that you can't impeach Obama -- because -- "Obama is not really the President!"
SO, I would suggest the first place you start in your "Impeachment drive" is convincing some FReepers that he is President, so you can then think about "Impeaching him" ... LOL ...
AND..., once you get around those Freepers who maintain you can't Impeach Obama, the next thing you have to "get around" is all the Democrats in the House who won't let you Impeach Obama.
BUT, when you analyze it all -- it always comes down to "How many votes do you have?" There's the solution.
If you want to Impeach Obama or if you want to get him out of office, politically speaking -- it's always going to come down to "How many votes do you have?"
That's it... nothing more than that.
And 3 years from now we will be saving what ? THREE YEARS of this? I doubt there will be elections in 3 years my friend.
You probably don't know how many posts there were about the same thing with Clinton and how he was not going to leave the Presidency and that this would be the last election we would ever see (with Clinton)....
You'll have to excuse me if I'm trying to sort out these comments from my "deja vu" with Clinton -- from old threads on Free Republic... LOL ...
The bottom line is that we'll still have elections and you can vote Obama out -- simply by having enough votes to defeat him. That's the goal here -- it's to "get the votes" to defeat him.
And in politics, if you don't have enough votes -- you simply don't deserve to win... that's the bottom line.
It's all in the votes.
Not that conventional weapons are any match to nuclear weapons, but does anyone with a brain, understand why the sale of handguns and assault rifles have gone up?
- and lets see what the Republicans have to say about this. Can’t wait for the press conference. ( insert cricket sounds here )
Clinton was nothing compared to this Marxist/ Ok , what WOULD it take for him to be deemed a traitor? I still say a massive show of force and solidarity is needed to rattle the public.Half of them are still asleep.
“We have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”
There is a complacency that sets in with an affluent society.
An EMP attack that knocks out everyone’s TV would wake everyone up- and force them to put down the remote and pick up a pitchfork.
I say we form a National Strike.
Thursday April 15th is Tax Day.
Employed, call in sick...
if not, gather at your Capitol.
HELL, call in sick plus gather at the Capitol
Am I supposed to be in awe of your typing speed or your mental prowess?
Did I ask you to be? :-)
I am humbled, LOL.
Well, that's good... I try not to interfere in the personal decisions of a person ... :-)
No more sitting on our ass
April 15th at a Capitol near you !!!
Are you saying that the POTUS has the absolute power to change America's defensive posture and procedures just 'cuz he wants to? Where does the constitution give the Executive branch of government such authority without the advise and consent of Congress? or the Joint Chiefs? or the people? HE IS NOT THE KING!!!
I am not a "Constitutional Scholar" but neither is the current occupant of the White House! Why and how can he get away with such outright treason and nobody stands up to him to say, "I'm sorry, sir, you just don't have the authority to do that!"???
Clinton was nothing compared to this Marxist/ Ok , what WOULD it take for him to be deemed a traitor? I still say a massive show of force and solidarity is needed to rattle the public.Half of them are still asleep.
Considering the make-up of Congress... I would say you're asking the wrong person. You need to ask Democrats that question... :-)
It would be (to a Democrat) ...
Just about anything would get him to be deemed a traitor, if you've got enough votes in Congress.
And "there you have it" ...
I really choke over saying this, but Clinton, at the very least, realized that America had a special quality that allowed him to play a little fast and loose without having a firing squad show up in the Rose Garden.
Obama has no such realization. Neither do the people who surround him. I think he and his cohorts really believe they're untouchable (which remind me, why is bill Ayers still walking the streets, and even worse, teaching in a University?)
I went to DU and I couldn’t beleive that some of those useful idiots are actually wondering if this is good. But that was 2 hours ago and there were few comments at that time.
Why and how can he get away with such outright treason and nobody stands up to him to say, "I'm sorry, sir, you just don't have the authority to do that!"???
Well..., you might want to consider this answer to that question you asked... "Because the President has the authority to do that."
It could be as simple an answer as that.
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