Posted on 10/02/2007 2:47:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say.
In a speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama will add his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a reliance on nuclear weapons that have become increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.
Mr. Obama, according to details provided by his campaign Monday, also will call for pursuing vigorous diplomatic efforts aimed at a global ban on the development, production and deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
In 2009, we will have a window of opportunity to renew our global leadership and bring our nation together, Mr. Obama is planning to say, according to an excerpt of remarks provided by his aides. If we dont seize that moment, we may not get another.
His speech was to come one day after an announcement by the Bush administration that it had tripled the rate of dismantling nuclear weapons over the last year, putting the United States on track to reducing its stockpile of weapons by half by 2012.
The exact number of weapons being dismantled, like the overall stockpile, is secret, but officials said Monday that with the planned reductions, the total number of American nuclear weapons would be at the lowest levels since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.
Under a 2002 treaty, the United States and Russia agreed to limit the number of operational nuclear weapons in their arsenals to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012, though that agreement did not address weapons in reserve stockpiles.
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My dog has more smarts than this guy!
Yep, burnt toast. I guess he’s been so impressed about how making college campuses gun-free zones has proven so effective at protecting the resultant sheep that he wants to make us into a nuke-free sheep farm.
That is about as smart as simply giving away land for peace. Senator Obama is among those actually believing that Marxist ideas can work even though they have failed 100% of the time. It seems that Democrats love to implement proven failed policies. Are the American people really that dumb and apathetic?
Sounds like a gun grabber on a massive scale....
When Nukes are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nukes.
An empty suit. A media creation.
Someone said that liberals employ childhood emotions to deal with adult problems. This empty suit is a good example of that.
I think he should start with Elimination of World Hunger.
Then he should move on to Elimination of Sin.
Then he should Eliminate Satan.
After that, he can call himself the Messiah.
He’s always been an empty suit. I always write his name with that inserted between first and last name.
But he’s not toast actually. He’s now the leading contender. For V.P.
Because although he has no real experience, he speaks well, can write pretty well and holds all the religious views dear to the left. Like this one.
The other is he is a daily communicant of the holy sacrament of abortion. He’s always a part of that well too.
What’s completely overlooked is how poor the Democrats are in their “top” tier of candidates. Hard to believe that a major party can put only this up for President.
Between this nonsense and Hillary’s “$5000 per child bond” it’s like a contest to see which one can sound most like George McGovern.
Shultz -86 yo.
Kissinger - 84 yo
Perry - turns 80 in nine days
Nunn - Just a kid @ 69.
Pie-in-the-sky is just as appetizing in one's twilight years as in youth.
It was already tried in Superman 4. This will go to a similar fate.
Traitor!
HHHHAAAAA!
LLS
What a guy!
LLS
What does he think this is? Superman IV?
Never mind President — I find it depressing that some one with this level of ignorance and failure to grasp reality got enough votes in any state to become a US Senator.
This is undoubtedly the most stupid man ever to have run for the presidency in the nuclear era.
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