Posted on 04/11/2010 8:55:54 AM PDT by kristinn
The Obama administration's nuclear posture review may have removed some of the intentional ambiguity from U.S. nuclear policy, but it does not leave the country any less safe, President Obama's top national security advisers said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
In fact, they said, it gives a clear warning to other state actors that the U.S. will not ignore any growing threats.
"This is putting everybody on notice," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer in an interview conducted Friday at the Pentagon. "We don't want more countries to go down the path that North Korea and Iran are."
The revised nuclear policy says that the United States will not use nuclear weapons to respond to a chemical or biological attack from a non-nuclear country. The policy, however, leaves significant contingencies, said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
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"We were concerned about the biological weapons," Gates said, "and that's why the president was very clear ... if we see states developing biological weapons that we begin to think endanger us or create serious concerns, that he reserves the right to revise this policy."
Clinton added, "If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off."
Gates also pointed out that the policy dictates that any country that uses chemical or biological weapons against the U.S. will "suffer a devastating conventional retaliation."
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Notch another victory for Sarah Palin.
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Exactly! Why run for office when you can influence policy with your influence....
Good grief... impeach the imposter.
Removed the “institutional ambiguity”?????
That’s what they call endangering all of our families with the most gruesome weapons on Earth.
Looks like Sarah is already running the country...
Yea, we wont do anything.
In the event of a chemical or bio attack on this country, Obama stands ready to impose some very onerous sanctions on the offender...right after he reads them their Miranda Rights.
Hmm are Gates’ quotes more like Dr. Strangelove, or the Pink Panther?
We were concerned about the biological weapons (But not the NERVE GAS????) so Obama reserved the right to “revise” the policy AFTER a country launches a plague killing millions of Americans.
The above alone is enough, IMHO, to justify removing Obama from office.
I don't think 'we' will be around to do anything close to retaliation..........
Exactly because this is not what he said when he annouced this new policy.
As Rush says, she’s “living rent-free in his head.”
No enemy should ever have any certainty that our response will be limited.
Oh I hope you are right about that.
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The spat began Wednesday when Palin criticized Obama's rewriting of the U.S. nuclear defense policy. Her comments came during an interview on Fox News, where she is a paid analyst. She likened Obama to a kid poised for a playground fight who said, "Go ahead, punch me in the face and I'm not going to retaliate. Go ahead and do what you want to with me."
Palin was particularly incensed about the policy that says if a non-nuclear state were to use chemical or biological weapons against the U.S. or its allies, it would face a potentially devastating conventional military strike by the U.S., but not a nuclear one.
"No administration in America's history would, I think, ever have considered such a step that we just found out President Obama is supporting today," Palin said.
Across the globe in Prague, Obama was asked by ABC News to respond to the criticism.
"I really have no response," the president said. "Because last I checked, Sarah Palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues."
Obama added: "If the secretary of Defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin."
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Palin then shot back Friday during a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans with a reference to Obama's early career choice. Mocking the president, she dismissed "all the vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer." (and as a part time senator and full time campaigner.)
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“We don’t want more countries to go down the path that North Korea and Iran are.”
Dumocrat braindead thought process. disarm and HOPE the tyrants of the world will CHANGE.
But then Zeros messiah complex is all of a sudden at play.
Does Gates really need this job? Or does he really think Obama is on the right track? Whichever, they all look weak, silly, and stupid......these folks have Nuclear weapons and some one has bio-weapons, probably right here in America...whatever, they all want America out of the picture...Gates has me shaking the head..........
Friggin “Clown Posse” administration polidiots.....doom on em all !
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