20 Years After Fall of Soviet Union Obama Signs Nuke Agreement With Russia
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 8, 2010, 5:20 AM
“I’m the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it. Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems. And I will institute an independent “Defense Priorities Board” to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending. Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.”
Barack Obama
22 October 22, 2007
Here’s the video:
He warned us.
One thing we can all agree on about President Obama… He focuses his attention where it is needed least. Americans want jobs – He nationalizes health care. Americans see an emerging threat in nuclear Iran – He signs a nuke agreement with Russia.
That’s what you get when you elect an inexperienced far left radical weaned on Marxism.
FOX News reported:
Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a treaty to shrink their nations’ nuclear arsenals, the biggest such pact between the former Cold War foes in a generation.
Tenaciously negotiated by even the leaders themselves, the treaty commits their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them.
In a lavish chamber within the Czech capital’s presidential castle complex, the two presidents put their names to history. The treaty must be now be ratified by Russia’s parliament and by the U.S. Senate, where the White House lobbying effort is under way.
“Today is an important milestone for nuclear security and nonproliferation, and for U.S.-Russia relations,” Obama said. Medvedev hailed the signing as a historic event that would launch a new chapter of cooperation between the countries.
Obama promised last year to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal by 80%… Because with Obama, America is the enemy.
UPDATE: Iran announced today that Russia committed to its agreement for the delivery of the anti-aircraft S-300 missile system to Iran.
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bill-tb commented:
Windup Obamabots will lap this up.
Bush in March 2002 signed a huge reduction in nukes with yes, wait for it, the very same commie wanna bee Ruskie Putin.
You wonder, does the failed Soviet Union have anything worth having left? DO they even work?
Obama nut job arms reduction negotiation, here take all oirs and you smile. Jimmy the really dumb Carter did the same thing.
Robb76 commented:
Be afraid, be very afraid.
NC Cop commented:
China rejoices!! And Russia, Iran, North Korea……
Jerry M commented:
What ever happened to trust but verify when it comes to arms agreements with the Russians? Apparently Obama, unlike Reagan, is naive enough to believe the Russians will not cheat. He is being played like a fiddle by Putin and others that see him for the inexperienced, amateur that he is on the world stage.
mike commented:
Epic failure.
Andrew commented:
Who could have guessed Obama would do something that makes the USA less safe in the world?
Ian Christopher commented:
Reagan said, “I know that there are a great many people who are pointing to the unimaginable horror of nuclear war….to those who protest against nuclear war, I can only say, ‘I’m with you.’” Reagan also said, “My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.”
Redwine commented:
Now I understand what that stupid “Restart” button was for. “Overcharge” indeed! Just a hunch that Barry Hussein is a KGB agent.
avery commented:
Reagan already won that war years ago.Iran is the proable he giving them a pass.
susan commented:
I lived in Moscow, Russia and their Mafia-state does not piss around when it comes to weakness and Obama is THE Weakest-Horse in the world.
Obama and his voters are held responsible for bringing Death to America; the blood of dead Americans are on their wicked evil souls.
And it will be their children will pay the price of empowering such wicked evil.
J commented:
Obama also once said the USA was the greatest country in the world and he promised to change that.
Willy commented:
I believe what Reagan meant was for the rest of the world to get rid of theirs first and ours last.
I think all 0bama is going to accomplish, is putting nukes in the hands of criminals.
Andreas K. commented:
“Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material”
Oh yes. Because global bans work so damn well! North Korea and Iran are both laughing. If this ever goes to the UN expect the Chinese go “VETO!”
“I will slow our development of future combat systems.”
Which translates as: I will make sure that our soldiers will continue to die because I don’t think they need better equipment.
“And I will institute an independent “Defense Priorities Board” to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.”
Independent as in doing his bidding.
“And I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.”
Because Russia is the biggest issue. Right.
The sad thing is, he said that in 2007. And people still voted for him.
Americans who voted for Obama, you are proving every joke ever made about how stupid Americans are to be the truth and nothing but the truth.
Melvin Winter commented:
Related photo parody: Director’s Cut of Hot Tub Time Machine Movie to Include Scene Showing President Obama Signing Arms Control Agreement with Russia http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/03/directors-cut-of-hot-tub-time-machine.html
Andreas K. commented:
Addition: this is how leftists work. In Europe they say: we must lower the crime rate! Solution: try to ban all legally owned guns.
Too bad that criminals, may they be the guy who breaks into your house or the guy sitting in a palace with his hand near the button of the ICBM launch, don’t care about rules.
Criminals pick on the weakest link. They don’t go after the guy who has guns. They go after the one who can’t fight back.
Congrats US of A. Your president just removed the lock from the door. Now every criminal can just waltz in. Bravo! Smart power!
Ironically, as I was saying in another post, there is a growing amount of voices in Japan who say that, maybe, Japan should consider going nuclear. With nationalsocialist North Korea on the doorstep it’s a valid view.
Militant Conservative commented:
Just history repeating itself. Let’s just hope there is another Reagan to fix the mess this lil twit makes.
Obama=FAILURE.
Bobbi commented:
A TREATY SIGNED BY A PRESIDENT IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT RATIFICATION.
Pat the First commented:
Bobbi
April 8th, 2010 | 7:39 am | #18
A TREATY SIGNED BY A PRESIDENT IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT RATIFICATION.
That’s true, but this Congress rubber stamps anything B.O. sends them.
Somewhere the fans of Neville Chamberlain are smiling. Both Chamberlain and B.O. live in a world that never will exist. Both were and are dangerous types of people . . . not living in reality is very, very dangerous.
sliderblaze commented:
@18, you mean like…… Iraq?
sliderblaze commented:
im surprised that med. didnt start busting out laughing while signing
Britny commented:
Every US president says they are going to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles.
yaaaaaaaaaaaawn
Kevin P commented:
Feel safer yet?
Kevin P commented:
Jerry M #5
You said, “Apparently Obama, unlike Reagan, is naive enough to believe the Russians will not cheat.”
He is not naive – he knows EXACTLY what he is doing – and so does the rest of the world.
Nothing he does is by accident.
ken commented:
If we seriously want to remove these socialists from office we had better begin NOW! We need to make sure voters must be registered, U S citizens and have photo id to vote. In order to have this by November we had better start on or respective states NOW because ACORN is now just a lot of smaller groups of crooks that will stop at nothing to manipulate our election system.
mike commented:
IAN this is from that same speech. Reagan”As a result, the military balance which permitted us to maintain the peace is now threatened. If steps are not taken to modernize our defense, the United States will progressively lose the ability to deter the Soviet Union from employing force or threats of force against us and our allies.”
ironbill commented:
1st point: I hope the Senate can stall ratification debate till past November. Then it can suffer a death by a 1000 cuts like Carter’s did with SALT.
2nd point: Is there any doubt that this idiot is attempting to destroy this country and our heritage?
Everyday these maniacs give me another reason to shake my head and wonder how long we have left.
I feel really sorry for whomever follows this turd as President. It’s gonna be one hell of a mess to clean up.
Sojourner commented:
..ot/related: Obama’s New Policy:All Israeli Nuclear Workers Now Refused US Visas
..’NRG/Maariv… reported today that the Israeli government was stunned when every nuclear technician at Israel’s Dimona reactor who had submitted visa requests to visit the United States for ongoing university education in Physics, Chemistry and Nuclear Engineering had their visa applications summarily rejected, specifically because of their association with the Dimona reactor.’
http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamas-new-policy-all-israeli-nuclear.html
(h/t) JoshuaPundit
Robb76 commented:
I know I have asked before but who are the 43-44% of our citizens who think the “One” is doing a great job? I can not understand it!
Potkas7 commented:
@Robb76
“I know I have asked before but who are the 43-44% of our citizens who think the “One” is doing a great job?”
They are the remainder of the 53% of our fellow citizens who voted for Obama. The ones not yet suffering from buyer’s remorse.
As the author says, “That’s what you get when you elect an inexperienced far left radical weaned on Marxism.”
The key word in that sentence being “Elected.”
Obama was not forced on us by some foreign power. Obama didn’t try to hide what he was – he trumpeted it. And then people went to the polls, told themselves, he really didn’t mean what he said, and pulled the lever marked ‘Democrat.’
Like it or not, elections have consequences.
Chisum commented:
Obama’s Nuclear Sideshow
So Presidents Obama and Medvedev have signed a new nuclear-arms reduction accord. Big deal. The actual cuts called for under the treaty are modest because of accounting tricks that allow a B-52 bomber, which can carry 20 nuclear warheads, to be counted as one “weapon.” The treaty doesn’t affect at all the thousands of tactical nuclear warheads or strategic warheads in storage.
[..]
But as I have indicated before, I think all of this is basically a sideshow. The real action isn’t happening in Prague. It’s in Tehran, where the mullahs are getting ever closer to a nuclear weapon — and they won’t be convinced to give up their atomic ambitions because the U.S. is willing to cut is own arsenal. If anything, American concessions embolden Iran into thinking that we are a “weak horse” that can be defied with impunity.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/273036
daryl commented:
Ian
Do you think Reagan would add this injury to the insult BrackO has already committed on the Israelis?
American Thinker Blog: US Refuses Visas to all Israeli Nuclear Scientists
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/us_refuses_visas_to_all_israel.html
dlc commented:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=85442
Kissinger: Obama primed to create ‘New World Order’
Policy guru says global upheaval presents ‘great opportunity’
Liar Thiefson commented:
Brilliant!
down with dems commented:
Obama obsesses with the issues of the past when there are plenty of more dangerous and prominent problems here in the present, and even scarier ones lurking in the future.
Let’s try to create “green jobs” as reparations for slavery and the treatment of Native Americans, let’s sign a nuke deal with our Cold War enemy from decades ago… what’s next?
I’d much rather put my faith in the policy of MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION than allow Obama to neuter the US in the HOPE that other countries reduce their nukes, while at the same time still other countries are building brand new ones.
DANEgerus commented:
While Putin punishes Kyrgyzstan for aiding America in Afghanistan Obama signs a Nuclear arms “treaty” that surrenders our military defense in the face of Russian strategic arms expansion.
“The Nuclear Posture Review is deeply troubling in many respects, starting at the conceptual level with its unfounded assertion that the need for American nuclear deterrence has declined. By further unilaterally limiting the circumstances in which the U.S. would use nuclear weapons to protect itself and its allies, the Obama administration is in fact increasing international instability and the risks of future conflicts. By abandoning the reliable replacement warhead project, and drastically limiting programs to ensure the safety and reliablity of our existing nuclear stockpile, the president is risking our security and obtaining nothing in return.” — John Bolton
Chisum commented:
From Doug Ross’ site:
QOTD (hat tip: InstaPundit):
“So one wonders—as Putin embraces Chavez and Karzai plays host to Ahmadinejad; as Russia asserts the right to repudiate any nuclear-arms reduction treaty and China gives us the bird on the yuan; as the alliance with India languishes and the one with Britain experiences unprecedented atrophy; as Israel expresses acrid disagreement with us and Japan seeks to rip pages out of its postwar rulebook—what all the pragmatism has really, truly accomplished… …other than give our delighted adversaries a free pass and our friends a very rude wakeup call.” — Tunku Varadarajan, “How Obama is Weakening America”
Pat the First commented:
Sojourner
April 8th, 2010 | 8:38 am | #29
I don’t think that B.O. is the Anti-Christ, but I sure think he is a precursor. He is smoothing the path of the Anti-Christ by the way he is treating Israel.
Google “Gog and Magog” and learn how our future looks. Keep in mind the US will in no way be involved in this war. We will not come to the defense of Israel. It is being set up rather well right now. If we are alive when this happens (and that is entirely possible), everyone needs to get ready. The end times will begin shortly thereafter.
J commented:
You can watch the “unproven missle defense system” working at these sites:
http://closingvelocity.typepad.com/closing_velocity/2009/08/video-surprise-missile-defense-works-even-better-than-expected.html
http://closingvelocity.typepad.com/closing_velocity/2010/02/historic-intercept-airborne-laser-shoots-down-ballistic-missile.html
Chisum commented:
More Hope and Change from The Won.
‘This is impeachment-level criminal negligence’
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-is-impeachment-level-criminal.html
jb commented:
Unclear As Of Now if Senate Will Have Votes to Ratify New Disarmament Treaty
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/unclear-as-of-now-if-senate-will-have-votes-to-ratify-new-disarmament-treaty.html
squeaky commented:
“wouldn’t it be better to save lives than avenge them…” from j’s link. the absolute truth – sad but true.
Sojourner commented:
..Pat the First/#29..
indeed..the ‘troubles’ grow:
..’Relations between Turkey and Israel, already at a low point, took a further battering Wednesday when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Israel as “the principal threat to peace” in the Middle East:’
..http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303591204575169980169518418-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html
Sojourner commented:
re/ #47.. try the line again:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303591204575169980169518418-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html
Bankroller commented:
The MSM fails to mention that this treaty requires 2/3 Senate approval per Article.2. Section.2. Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution (remember that?). That’s a hefty 67 Senators that need to vote “Yea”. . .
Stuart commented:
Right on Bankroller. I don’t think that O bummer can get 67 votes for this turkey even with the most corrupt legislature in memory. Remember these legislators live and work in D.C., #1 on any enemies target list. That has got to be on their mind at some level or another.
Self preservation trumps corruption and cronyism every time.
Joanne commented:
America’s enemies laugh….out loud, and her allies will in time despise her.
Joanne commented:
Hey, you can’t destroy America’s ability to defend themselves if they have nukes they are still able to deploy. Even if America’s entire military was decimated, America could still blow up the entire world, but Obama isn’t going to have any of that. Obama is going to make sure that when America goes down, it goes down and up for good.
Chisum commented:
How’ That Russia Negotiation Going?
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/04/hows-that-russia-negotiation-going.html