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Obama to limit use of US nuclear weapons
DefenceTalk.com ^

Posted on 04/05/2010 9:01:34 PM PDT by DTAD

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama plans to place new restrictions on the use of atomic weapons as part of a major US nuclear policy overhaul, a senior administration official said.

In an interview with The New York Times, Obama said he would make exceptions for "outliers like Iran and North Korea," but stress non-nuclear deterrence and eliminate Cold War ambiguities about when such weapons could be used.

Obama unveils his strategy on Tuesday, two days before signing a treaty with Russia to slash stockpiles of long-range nuclear warheads by a third, and less than a week before hosting world leaders at a key nuclear summit in Washington.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: nuclear; obama; policy; weapons
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1 posted on 04/05/2010 9:01:34 PM PDT by DTAD
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To: DTAD

Nothing like announcing our strategies in advance....


2 posted on 04/05/2010 9:03:44 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: DTAD

Why not be even clearer:

I won’t nuke Iran even if Iran nukes us or Israel.

I will nuke Israel.

I won’t nuke North Korea even if they nuke the US (especially Alaska cause that’s where Palin lives).

I won’t nuke any thug country that attacks us. They’re probably muslim or working with muslims, or if not my muslim brothers, my communist comrades, and we won’t nuke them either.

I hate this f-ing country and can’t wait now for you all to get what I and the rest of the world believe you have coming.

- sorry, I went off teleprompter there,... -


3 posted on 04/05/2010 9:06:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Tzimisce
How about this headline: "US to limit obama's ability to harm US."

Time for the House to begin impeachment proceedings. obama is obviously not faithfully carrying out the duties and responsibilities of his office. He is instead placing American lives and property at significant risk through his policies. He is giving aide and comfort to Countries and groups who have sworn to do us harm.

This must be stopped now. Impeach obama now! I have never seen anyone at any level so deserving of being removed from their position. He deserves a lifetime prison stretch for his treasonous actions.

4 posted on 04/05/2010 9:08:12 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: DTAD

Dr. Jack Wheeler is editor of ToThePointNews “an online geopolitical intelligence service”.

He has had two parallel careers: one in the field of adventure and exploration as the owner of Jack Wheeler Expeditions; the other in the field of political and economic freedom as president of the Freedom Research Foundation.

Wheeler’s articles are also published by WebNetDaily.

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 30 April 2009

Paris, France. It is very cool to be a French intel guy. A spectacular meal at a Parisian bistro with $90 entrées and a $200 bottle of Bordeaux? No problem. I’d known this fellow since he got me out of a jam in Sudan years ago. His James Bond days are over, but still, riding a desk for the DGSE – Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (General Directorate for External Security), France’s military intel agency – in Paris has its decided benefits.

One of them is not being infected with Obamamania. “My agency considers him a joke,” he confides. “Every day there is some fresh lunacy that we cannot believe. Mr. Bush would often make us angry. But at this man we just laugh.”

“In truth, it also makes us sad,” he continued. “French resentment towards America is strong, so being able to laugh at your country feels good. But it is such a sad and strange thing to see America – America The Great! – do something so crazy as to elect this ridiculous man.”

“There are many people in America who think he isn’t a legitimate president as he wasn’t born in the US and isn’t a natural citizen. What do you think?” I asked.

He shrugged. “I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had reason to make an inquiry.”

“There are a lot of people convinced he is a traitor who hates America and is actively determined to destroy it. Any opinion on that?”

He didn’t shrug at this. After a long slow sip of wine, he mused, “I would not go that far. Many of his actions, however, are very puzzling because they are so counter-productive regarding America’s best interests. There seems to be a consistent pattern in that direction.”

“What does Sarkozy think of him?”

“Nothing but contempt.”

After a pause he asked, “And Langley?”

“Well, if you thought the war they waged against Bush was intense, it was nothing compared to how they’re going to screw Obama. He has tried to gut them with the ‘torture memo’ release and slashing their budgets. The morale is depressed, sullen, and enraged. You know what a left-wing outfit Langley is. They thought he was their boy and they feel betrayed. All kinds of damaging stuff on him will be appearing via their media friends.”

He nodded. “And in Tel Aviv City?”

He was referring to the huge underground city complex of Langley’s underneath the US Embassy in the Israeli capital. “That’s an interesting question. You know how vast and deep the relationship is there. Langley is making every effort to overcome the total and massive distrust their Israeli colleagues have for Obama, whom they know is selling them down the Jordan River. So far though this effort is in words. The Israelis are waiting to see what Langley does.”

He said nothing. I smiled. “You guys wouldn’t be Langley’s cutout for thwarting BO regarding Israel, would you? I’d never suspect that…”

He continued to say nothing, gave me only a slight smile in return, and poured me another glass of wine. “The Bordeaux is good, yes?” I nodded.

“You know, the French media worships this man the same as yours in the US. All of this ‘100 days’ talk, it is impossibly stupid. Most anyone in the French elite, the business leaders, Sarko’s people, they all know this. They all think this is some crazy joke of the Americans. But it is a very, very dangerous joke. For 100 days your president has been a laughingstock among the tout le monde of Paris. No one may be laughing 100 days or 10 months from now.”

He leaned forward. “The world can go – how do you say – sideways with this man very quickly. No one he has working for him knows what they are doing – possibly excepting Mrs. Clinton – and he certainly does not. All of us in our little community are worried – us, our friends in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv, and Langley too as you say. It is not like the barbarians at the gates. It is every barbarian horde in the world being told there are no gates. The Somalis, Chavez, Iran, Putin, Beijing, the ‘Norks” as you call them, the list is long and it is growing. We are not sure what to do.”

It took me a moment to respond. “The best thing that has happened now is Obama making Langley his enemy. They will be cooperating with you more, be more a part of your worried community. Working together, you can undermine his efforts more effectively, block and maybe even repair the damage.”

It was my turn to lean forward. “Then again, all together you could be more pro-active. The man is a mystery. Nobody can make public his actual birth certificate, or even the particular hospital he was born in, or his college grades, or how he got into Harvard, or how he made editor of the Harvard Law Review and never wrote a single article for it. It goes on and on. He really is a Zero. I think all of you guys should find all of this out and make it known.”

I added, “The quicker the better, before the laughing stops and the real dangers begin.”

“What is that phrase you use?” he asked. “Something to consider?”

I laughed. “Yes, there is much to consider – and much that you can do. I mean, really, if the Soviet Union could be dismantled, so can this presidency.”

It was a beautiful April afternoon in Paris. He walked me back to my hotel. It could be that the times we live in may get even more interesting.


5 posted on 04/05/2010 9:08:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2312894/posts?page=242)
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To: DTAD

I have a suggestion of a dark place he could store one.


6 posted on 04/05/2010 9:09:48 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Tzimisce

If he can change it with a signature, so can Bush the XVII-th if needed.


7 posted on 04/05/2010 9:13:33 PM PDT by mainsail that
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To: DTAD
Obama unveils his strategy on Tuesday,

No need to. Hussein's long-term strategy has been outlined in detail by Alinksy, Marx, and Engels. Understanding their works is the key to understanding almost every one of B-HO's moves.

8 posted on 04/05/2010 9:14:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: DTAD

Doesn’t wanna wear out his widdle button pushing finger, does he?


9 posted on 04/05/2010 9:14:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: DTAD

A major theme of this is that the nuking of Japan was “wrong”. Note we would not have ended WWII with nukes under this policy. Even after the sneak attack, atrocities, and dictatorial Japan’s ruthless teaming with Hitler to attack the whole World.

Isn’t it sweet the president just decided our enemies can attack us with biologicasl weapons and we won’t use nukes?

The immorality of the left.


10 posted on 04/05/2010 9:15:36 PM PDT by Williams (It's the policies, stupid)
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To: mainsail that

Shoot, Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann would do it on inauguration day.


11 posted on 04/05/2010 9:15:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Williams

The collective carnage Japan wrought in that war was more than they suffered from the two bombs, and most Japanese were actually glad the Allies had given their intensely egotistical emperor a reason to quit the warpath instead of sacrificing them all in it.


12 posted on 04/05/2010 9:17:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: ThunderSleeps
You were saying ...

This must be stopped now. Impeach obama now! I have never seen anyone at any level so deserving of being removed from their position. He deserves a lifetime prison stretch for his treasonous actions.

And... ummmm..., how many Democrats did you say you're going to get to sign onto this Impeachment process?

13 posted on 04/05/2010 9:18:22 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: ThunderSleeps

He deserves a lifetime prison stretch for his treasonous actions.
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I pray for the day he and his cronies are frogmarched out of OUR White House.


14 posted on 04/05/2010 9:19:42 PM PDT by Canedawg (I'm not diggin' this tyranny thing.)
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To: Star Traveler

If not now, very soon we may see a geological split between Bummer and the Congressional rats.


15 posted on 04/05/2010 9:20:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You were saying ...

If not now, very soon we may see a geological split between Bummer and the Congressional rats.

There's only one place that I can see a split coming and one only. That's where it concerns jobs for the American people. If things keep getting worse and worse, then the Democrats know they'll have to split from Obama and let him go down the tube, this coming election.

Otherwise, I can't see anywhere else where they're going to have a problem with him.

16 posted on 04/05/2010 9:26:19 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

The ‘rats know that it’ll be a GOP run House after November. With the continuing stream of idiocy coming from DC, it just may be a GOP Senate too.


17 posted on 04/05/2010 9:26:27 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is there a link? How credible is this?


18 posted on 04/05/2010 9:26:39 PM PDT by parisa
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To: ThunderSleeps
You were saying ...

The ‘rats know that it’ll be a GOP run House after November. With the continuing stream of idiocy coming from DC, it just may be a GOP Senate too.

You think so? I mean, I see some gains there for the GOP, but I don't see a takeover of the House. And certainly not the Senate.

Eventually it will swing back, but I think it will take longer than this coming election to do it.

19 posted on 04/05/2010 9:28:25 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: DTAD

Doesn’t Congress have to approve such a change?


20 posted on 04/05/2010 9:29:01 PM PDT by garjog
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