Posted on 10/12/2017 1:11:20 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi urges new law to limit president's use of nuclear weapons
By Mike Lillis - 10/12/17 03:15 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pressing Congress to bar the president from using nuclear weapons unless the United States is attacked first.
I put this in the category of urgent, Pelosi said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. We each take an oath to protect and defend.
Pelosi said her promotion of the nuclear first-use concept has nothing to do with the volatility surrounding President Trump, whose saber-rattling with North Korea and threat to scrap a nuclear deal with Iran have raised plenty of concerns on both sides of the aisle.
Still, she characterized the 1946 law authorizing the president to launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes as ancient, calling on lawmakers from both parties to rally behind legislation reining in that unilateral power.
It was in a different world, she said, and now I think it is necessary for us to address it.
Pelosi outlined several different designs for restricting pre-emptive nuclear strikes. They range from proposals to define and expand the Cabinet members who advise the president before such an attack, to a blanket declaration that the United States will not engage in first use of a nuclear weapon.
I like that one the best, Pelosi said of the latter.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If we define publicly how and when will and won’t use nuclear weapons we set a framework of defense in public stone. It becomes a Maginot Line and wont’ work out any better than it did in 1939.
Gee Nancy, you could have gotten all the laws you wanted passed when you had the usurper in office and you were the speaker. Now? Not so much.
So sit down, shut up and pay attention Nancy, you’re about to get schooled.
If we define publicly how and when will and won’t use nuclear weapons we set a framework of defense in public stone. It becomes a Maginot Line and wont’ work out any better than it did in 1939.
We are making progress - First we limit Pelosi's access to military aircraft to use them as her personal commute between DC and the Bay Area.
Step Two will be to eliminate her need to commute entirely.
She is the most obvious one that Congressional Pharmacist was talking about.
One idiotic issue is what if some country attacked us with chemical or biological weapons, the latter of which could be much more destructive than nukes?
Hey, if you can remember your name after all the botox brain damage, nancy — why don’t you just do what you been trying incrementally for all these years??
Just pass a law declaring the United States Constitution illegal.
It is a good rule of thumb to oppose anything Pelosi supports,.
I don’t think that is a joke. She is visually going downhill. her gaps and lapses in speech remind me a lot of my mother a few months before we all finally realized she had to have constant tending.
The ‘woman’ is certifiable.
Scroot. Send her on a "fact finding mission" to Seoul. The Word is that things are heating up, and everyone is on Standby...
>>This president, or any subsequent president, cant just hit the big red button preemptively.<<
The USC Begs to differ. And, thank God, one POTUS did just that and saved millions of lives.
Nancy’s caregiver is holding back her Aricept.
Hey Nancy, as soon as you can prove you know what planet you are currently on, maybe somebody will listen to you.
How about a law that requires public disclosure if anyone in Congress is being delivered Alzheimer’s drugs?
I meant no one would be able to under her proposal... which is potentially untrue and the President still could do it if she got her way, it would just be ‘against the law’. heh ... unless the law actually implemented safeguards on ‘the football’ and other launch protocols
It's that fat fire-plug running North Korea who's doing the saber rattling, threatening to annihilate the western US with one of his rockets and a warhead.
So who's ability to "protect and defend" are you hamstringing, Nancy? Your own president's or the threatening enemy?
Maybe she missed her dose of Alzheimer meds.
And, “We must launch to see if it explodes!”
They swear a blood oath every day to murder us in any way possible!
I'm more concerned about them getting nukes in the first place!
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