In a move he insists is somehow consistent with his call for disarmament, President Obama is seeking more than $5 billion in increased funding for America’s nuclear weapons program, aimed chiefly at modernization and building new facilities.
Vice President Joe Biden detailed what he thought was the case for the investment, perplexingly arguing simultaneously for a world without nuclear weapons and for America to make “long overdue” investments in strengthening its own nuclear stockpile.
Though this funding will not actually be used to produce additional nuclear weapons, opponents caution that it will give the administration, and future administrations, the capacity to greatly increase the number of warheads in America’s arsenal, at a time when the administration claims to be trying to complete comprehensive warhead reduction agreements.
Though Vice President Biden portrayed the investment as crucial for creating a “safe, secure and effective” collection of weapons capable of murder on an unprecedented scale, he also pointed to Iran’s illusory nuclear weapons program as one reason for America to shore up its own, already enormous arsenal.
The move is likely a political one, coming just weeks after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) penned a letter demanding the massive increase as a condition for Senate support for the new START treaty with Russia. Still, it will likely do serious harm to the Obama Administration’s credibility when it urges other nations to pare down their arsenals.
Another betrayal and sellout to the war machine… that those who voted for him find abhorrent..!! WTF..!!
Obama is every bit as much a war criminal as Bush. He has continued the illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq, and he has escalated the war in Afghanistan in support of the assorted war criminals, crooks, and drug pushers in Kabul. He thinks the president, on his own authority, has the power to detain someone for life without a trial and with no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the individual. He is willing to go to the mat to help those who tortured and committed other outrages against decency and civilized conduct to avoid criminal prosecution.
Now he wants to update and modernize an already massive US government arsenal of nuclear weapons whose only purpose is to kill millions and millions of people. I hate Obama and I hope he burns in hell along with his fellow war criminal Bush.
Funny though how its "wrong" for North Korea or Iran to have nuclear weapons, but "right" for America to have gazillions of them.
That's the most basic example of "American Exceptionalism" possible.
A government of the people for the people . The presidency and the senate is where the people have the least controle . The powers that be display their power to thwart the desires of the people most arrogantly in these two branches . We have a government that we dont controle , It is a evil beast that controles us . Two examplies are healthcare reform , and military spending . The vast majority of the american people are for serrious directional changes . But we cant make it happend
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability – – the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit) of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.__I hope you agree that the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is the most urgent problem because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning.__Obama did ONE good thing, he cancelled the missiles/radars in Poland and the Czech Republic BUT only to put them at sea and in the Balkans.
>>Though Vice President Biden portrayed the investment as crucial
That's not an "investment", that's a "splurge"
>> weapons capable of murder on an unprecedented scale
That's a "suicide"
>>after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT)
That's "Israel"
According to Uni of Colorado 100 warheads Hiroshima-size are enough for Nuclear Winter. And when will the missiles/radars be deployed at sea and in the Balkans. And why ? To defend Europe (and the USA) from Iran ? In the Pentagon they seem to forget that the Russians are not bloody fools like themselves. After Napoleon and Hitler they won´t die alone. The logical answer to a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is Launch On Warning. The wise missile engineer Bob Aldridge resigned because it´s suicidal, wrote 3 books and some 900 pages on http://www.plrc.org about US First-Strike Capability. And this "civilization" could have grown about 4 billion years more, if it were not for the bloody fools in the Pentagon´s Office For First-Strike Plans. Learn from Bob Aldridge: RESIGN !!!
And the arrogant fools in the US Congress and Senate don´t seem to realize that a blockade of Iran is an act of war and the logical answer is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. And we´ll be back in 1932, more or less. Can United Bluff afford going to war with Iran. Bloody fools, what happens when the West looses 40 % of its oil supply ?
Apalling.
Now it has become as clear as it can ever be that electing a president with a mandate from the people means absolutely nothing. Not for the people, Democrats or Republicans. It is our Senate that is in peril, and is blocking anything that they do not want. And they want only more war and war spending.
And who is Joe Lieberman? He surely does not act like another Senator. He acts like Chancellor Palpatine, getting himself to be indispensible and dictating terms on everything — from health care to atomic weapons. He may be raising some clone army of his own, who knows. And the fools in Senate are willing to turn the power over to him. Palpatine said: "It is with great reluctance that I have agreed to this calling. I love democracy. I love the Republic. The powers you give me I will lay down when this crisis has be abated! My first act, with this new authority, is to create a Grand Army of the Republic, to counter the increasing threat of the Separatists."
Yes, the power will be given back —- suuuure, our new Darth In-Sedious.
isn't the tactic of gaining political leverages either threatened,coercied,implied,etc (corrisive)through the imtimadations with "exsplosives,"terrorism,(P)(C)(R)(TM)<$$
The basic choice a society makes has long been viewed as one between "guns and butter" or as
Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian economist born in 1848 put it:
“The efforts of men are utilized in two different ways: they are directed to the production or transformation of economic goods, or else to the appropriation of goods produced by others”
Folks should know that Obama made this Faustian bargain when he asked Bob Gates to continue as Sect. of DOD. In a speech at the Carnegie Foundation on October 28, 2009 Gates made it clear that:
"To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program. '
Translating the doublespeak, we will not have less unless we can make up for the loss elsewhere.
We WILL remain the dominant military power, spending whatever we have, until it has to be pried out of our cold, dead hands.
http://bit.ly/dBYDjv and http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticlePrint/23269
Obama , the Hypocrite. give back the Nobel Peace Price you War Mongerer. is that the Message of Hope you are sending? is that why the People cant have an affordable health care plan ?