AMERICA GETS PUNKED… Russians Say START Treaty Covers Antimissile Defense Systems
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 9:47 AM
They Told Us the START Treaty Could Not Wait – It Had to Be Signed Before Christmas–
The Obama Administration insisted that passing the START Treaty would not impact the US antimissile defense systems.
They were wrong.
The Russian Parliament announced this week that the START Treaty includes limitations on the US antimissile defense systems.
The Voice of Russia reported, via HotAir:
The State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) plans to confirm the link between the reduction of the strategic offensive arms and the restriction of antimissile defense systems’ deployment in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed between the US and Russia, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs says.
“During the ratification of START in the US Congress the American lawmakers noted that the link between strategic offensive armed forces and antimissile defense systems is not juridically binding for the parties. They referred to the fact that this link was fixed only in the preamble of the document. Such an approach can be regarded as the US’ attempt to find an option to build up its strategic potential and the Russian lawmakers cannot agree with this,” Kosachev says.
We will deal with these interpretations. The first thing is that our American colleagues do not recognize the legal force of the treaty’s preamble. The preamble sets a link between strategic offensive arms and defensive arms. The second thing is an attempt to interpret certain provisions of the treaty unilaterally.
The Russian lawmakers insist that all the chapters of the treaty including the preamble are legally binding, which is a common norm of international law. It is not lawful to take certain provisions and to give them unilateral interpretations like the American senators do, Alexei Arbatov, a member of the Carnegie Scientific Council, says.
Once again, we were fooled by Obama – And, once again, America will pay the price.
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Mikey commented:
Just another anti-American stance by our Loser in Chief. If it is AGAINST America’s interest, you can bet Obama, the Dems and the RINO’s will vote for it. Truly disgusting. Who couldn’t have seen this coming? Only morons.
gus commented:
Hurry hurry, if we don’t sign the PORKULOUS BILL children will die and old folks will be eating ALPO.
These FUKKTARDS are amateurs and anti-American. BAD COMBO.
Swifty commented:
And, hurry up and get ObamaCare through or old people will lose coverage and die. And I swear abortions will not be allowed because I’ll send you a note to that effect.
Chisum commented:
Obama and Hillary out and out LIED! They told us the Preamble didn’t mean anything. That it was just a formality. Tell that to Russia.
Even if the Duma doesn’t formally alter the treaty, though, Obama’s credibility will be shot. They will have been publicly caught arguing one thing to the Senate while apparently agreeing to its opposite with Russia. The next time Obama brings a treaty of any consequence and controversy to the Senate, don’t expect the Senate to just accept Obama’s word …. and don’t expect it to pass ratification, either.
burt commented:
If I knew it covered defense systems, why did no one else? Bull.
Granny commented:
HMMM – since this was approved by the Senate specifically on the basis that it would not affect anti-missile defense, it would seem to me that that approval is now invalidated.
RedBeard commented:
Just an unpleasant reminder about those Republicans who either aren’t smart enough to understand the issue, or who deliberately sided with Obama in the effort to weaken America.
Lugar, Voinovich, Brown (MA), Snowe, Collins, Alexander, Corker, Isakson, Murkowski, Cochran, and Bennett (UT).
We still have a great deal of work to do.
FedUp commented:
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse… the resident idiots outdo themselves.
Little_Johnny commented:
The Progressive SOP is to declare everything as an emergency and that “You have to pass it to find out what’s in it”.
mindy commented:
What will we do about the Dems before they destroy everything?
Luckyone commented:
The work of Dems and RINO’s. Thanks!
Ladue Pundit commented:
Obama is the chicken little president. The sky is always falling and he’s always there to save us.
I was never fooled and anyone who was is still a moron.
gus commented:
What does this treaty provide the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Any LIBTARDS OUT THERE??? PAGING LIBTARDS!!!!!!!!
Militant Conservative commented:
I knew this was in the bill. Am i THAT informed or are our representative THAT uninformed? I choose the former. I also know there are many that hate America. I love her, Democrat leadership hates America.
powder is dry.
Khan Krum commented:
Smart power! Obviously a result of the Hilldebeast’s перегрузка “overloading”.
Callipygian1 commented:
Gee… Gibbs sure seemed confident in his statement, didn’t he? He reminded me of “mumbles” from Dick Tracy cartoons.
More and more I consider the current administration to be traitors to the United States en masse. Group Collins, Snowe, Murkowski and the other RINO’s in with them as well.
L.E. Liesner commented:
This whole thing was planned and staged by the liberals and implemented with the help of the RINO’s in the Senate. Remember 2012 elections are on the way, it’s time for more House and Senate cleaning. There has never been a treaty with the Russians that we didn’t end up as losers.
Byzantine Bob commented:
#15:
перезагрузка!!!!!!!!!
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http://shininghappypeople.net/rwotd/blog4.php/2009/03/09/n
BurmaShave commented:
If the Russians say the START Treaty covers our Antimissile Defense Systems, then we can assume it does…so long as Obama is in office.
bigkahuna commented:
Screw The treaty…. Just give Russia another RESET button and tell them what treaty ?
How many treaties have been broken in the past ?
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