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.
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."
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BULL CRAP.
Some interviewer should ask them "well, if all bets are off, you are back to the prior policy ... what is the point Obama is trying to make by deliberately inserting ambiguity into a statement of deterrence? Does he not understand the meaning of the word? Is he mad?"
All they worry about it is that this is their last chance and they had better not miss it.
Yep.
I'll have to disagree with that statement, Gates and the *Witch* are just trying to spin.
Obummer's treasonous policy is still the same.
This clown should have been a shoe shine boy and nothing more...
You know what? After seeing your post and thinking about the statements, what Obama is setting up is a full quantum worse! Let's follow through the scenario Rodham lays out:
We are on record as responding conventionally. Rogue state emboldened by the apparent weakness starts a chemical / biological program. The world learns of this. So Obama makes the proclamation that nuclear is back on the table. "Now he's threatening to nuke us," the rogue state wails and in that Star Wars Bar Scene known as the UN, it makes the US the bad guy, with resolutions and such aimed at the US. At best we'd have the Cuban Missile Crisis II where we'd have to match the rogue state's back down with one of our own.
Hillary Clinton is supremely stupid. A stupid traitorous cow. No better than 0bama. She’s the rampant ego who has a lot in common with McCain except he has earned his senility while Hillary’s is premature. Heightened by her thyroid problems
Well, that one definitely does.............with panache!
If she had ever pronounced it that way before, itd have been looped for days on the Obamedia.
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She’s always said it that way, as did Bush, and LBJ I think.
The KENYAN VILLAGE IDIOT “BIDENED” Again Big TIME! and they are now trying to clean up the Carnage left by the Ditherer in Chief!!
Putin and the Chinese are Laughing their Butts Off at this IDIOT!
OBOZO really deserves his own sSideShow with the Ringling Bros. Circus!
The above translated means, ‘More dead American soldiers’.
This is why the policy of ambiguity was so successful. No rogue state, or the Soviets dared to mess with the US for fear of the unknown.
With one short statement, that ambiguity has been removed. We will now be tested. Any question who the amateur in the mix is?
This guy backpedals so much, he could probably beat Lance Armstrong in a five-mile hillclimb, assuming Zero was riding backwards.
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This is one of my very favorite Palin quotes.
She says what we think!
Really? That’s your concern?
(((PING)))
Palin is correct; you don’t need a title to lead.
Gates is now, and has been from the start of his career, the perfectly supine bureaucrat. He has never once taken a stance that would endanger his career. He has never once been a policy innovator. In seeking a toady, Obama chose wisely.
[Notch another victory for Sarah Palin]
You must be mistaken. It is documented in the media that Mitt Romney is driving the agenda.
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