In Event of WMD Attack, "All Bets Are Off" (Palin Victory, Obama Changes Stance on Nuke Warfare)

CBS News ^ | Sunday, April 11, 2010 | Stephanie Condon

[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.

SNIP

"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."

[Bahbah]

What a sight to see this morning, those two out there trying to seemingly make sense out of the looney one’s insane and senseless “policies.”

It was like Napolitano redux: the system worked.

[ScaniaBoy]

And that matters why?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Why does this fool insist on groveling like a beaten dog in front of every despotic ruler he encounters?

[chimera]

Sally Quinn gigged Palin for that on O’Reilly the other night. Laura Ingram called her on it (”pettiness”), but in a way it does distract from the message. If you're gonna walk the walk and talk the talk, at least pronounce the words correctly. It will save us having to defend an obvious error.

[FrankR]

Clinton added, "If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off." "

Catch-22

[piytar]

Ah, so zero’s NPR isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, just like everything else The One says.

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up for us, future Justice Hitlary...

[mkjessup]

Good Sunday Afternoon!

Sarah calls out 0bama on his 'community organizing nuclear weaponry expertise', and his reaction?

[piytar]

Um, that was a not-so-subtle nod to “Do You Miss GW Yet.” Sure, parts of the LSM will ding her for it. She clearly doesn’t care.

[presently no screen name]

It will save us having to defend an obvious error.

If pronunciation is something you feel the NEED to defend, well then, by all means go for it. Little minds need something to keep them busy.

[Jedidah]

No, Dr. Gates does not need this job. He is in a terrible place, knowingly serving under an idiot, yet also knowing that if he quits, the idiot will likely replace him with someone downright dangerous.

In my opinion, Gates is the only one in 0’s cabinet with any sense. Having spent a career in CIA, Gates knows the dangers we’re facing, but he has limited power to stave off Obama’s moves to weaken us.

He’s doing what little he can. I don’t know how long he can last.

[digger48]

I heard it.

I loved it.

And I think she pronounced it that way on purpose. It p!sses off all the right people.

If she had ever pronounced it that way before, it’d have been looped for days on the Obamedia.

Nope....IMO, she meant to say nucular.

[neodad]

She is so in his head...

[primatreat]

The Diddling ( my choice of adverb, makes me happier in the way to think of him)
Ditherer-in-Chief is being forced by public outrage to back off his free shot for a chemical or biological weapons attack on the U.S.

[R0CK3T]

0bama is a complete and total laughing stock of stupidity.

He makes his great “Proclamation” about how HE is changing American Nuclear policy and then he has his Chief of Foreign Policy go out and walk it back to Business As Usual.

I am beginning to completely believe that he does his “outlandish” things for only for the purpose of feeding his egotistical sense of grandeur, with little if any regard for the practicality of the matter.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[gundog]

Hmm are Gates’ quotes more like Dr. Strangelove, or the Pink Panther?

I think Obama may be expecting an attack from the Grand Duchy of Fenwick.

[ohioWfan]

LOL! May I steal that, mk??

[dalight]

SOOO.... why is it that “straw polls” keep naming people like Romney and Ron Paul to the top position for the opposition to King Obama I?

Ballot box stuffing by Paul supporters and Romney campaign.

Traditional GOP party hacks hate her because she threatens their power structure and pay checks.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I rather be right on policy than wrong on pronunciation.

[El Gato]

Once the general population sees what the Dems are really like, very few will ever be elected again.

They will just be selected/appointed by other means.