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Obama to Urge Elimination of World’s Nuclear Weapons
The New York Times ^
| October 2, 2007
| Jeff Zeleny
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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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism”
Yea, every liberal knows that the US is the biggest threat to world peace isn’t power mad dictators but the United States.
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posted on
10/02/2007 5:29:25 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I assume that, in order to ensure no other nations break the rules and keep or produce nukes, he is willing to station US troops in strategic locations all around the world, including in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, PRC, N. Korea and Russia.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What does he propose to do with all the people possessing the knowledge needed to build nuCLAR weapons?
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posted on
10/02/2007 5:42:46 AM PDT
by
elizabetty
(VOTE- FOR -SNOOPY............HE is the ONLY candidate who can beat Hillary.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He took lots of drugs in his “youth” and it shows. This guy is an empty suit moron. Check out his wife, she’s even stupider
BARACK HUSSEIN — There is no there, there.
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961)
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posted on
10/02/2007 5:42:52 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Sarkozy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why is it these Kumbaya-Lovin’-We-Are-the-World-Crunchy-Granola jackasses always think WE should do it first, and then our enemies will follow suit? Ubama is a fool.
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posted on
10/02/2007 5:43:20 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We could eliminate some of our nuclear weapons stockpile by using a few on Iran’s nuclear weapons program...that would reduce the world’s nukes considerably.
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posted on
10/02/2007 5:54:23 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: RobFromGa
I hope gets rid of all mean people too.
Especially mean people with cooties!
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:00:18 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: Flintlock
When do we start singing koooommbyeyaaaaah?
68
posted on
10/02/2007 6:02:34 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The man is a moral idiot who would leave us all exposed to destruction.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:05:24 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"All we are saaaaaying,....is give peace a chance!"
Seriously though, - I assume he's already run this by Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, Chavez, Putin and Ahmawhackjob - and they're all on board too?
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:05:37 AM PDT
by
alicewonders
(Duncan Hunter. Seriously.)
To: MrBambaLaMamba
Obama - A Jimmah Carter for the 21st century. The bad old days will come new. Commie boomers will no longer need to tearfully reminisce about hostages, repeated international humiliations, gas shortages, double digit inflation, job loss ...
Last night I was watching the Dallas special--The Return to Southfork--and Larry Hagman explained the show's huge success by showing the late 70's (or the Carter years) and how Dallas offered an "escape" from all that doom and gloom.
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:07:12 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He’s clean. He’s articulate. /sarcasm
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:08:38 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am beginning to believe that Obama is a stooge to make Hitlery look good.
73
posted on
10/02/2007 6:09:52 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("All gave some, and some gave all!")
To: BulletBobCo
All together now.....
"Id like to build the world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees And snow-white turtle doves...." Sounds great to me....when are we getting married? Before or after they beam us up?
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:12:05 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(All reality is based on faith in something.)
To: DB
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:13:51 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:24:56 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(Wee willie asston reece, the fraud of NYC)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Barack Obama will propose on Tuesday setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world
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we could start by blowing the crallahp out of Iran...
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posted on
10/02/2007 6:32:22 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If he is that desperate to pander to his liberal base, I agree. I still think (hope?) that 75% of the country will recognize this is absolutely nuts.
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To: diverteach
What a utopiast!!! That doesn't quite do his lunacy justice. How about Utopidiot?
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