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Obama Enlists Big Names to Push Nuke Treaty
« on: November 18, 2010, 08:59:20 am »
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, pressing for quick Senate ratification of a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms-reduction treaty, summoned a number of former secretaries of defense and state, Republicans and Democrats, to the White House to rally support for the imperiled agreement.
The White House said Obama wanted to discuss at the gathering why it is in the national interest for the Senate to approve the treaty this year, a move that a key Senate Republican says would be premature.
Those invited to the Roosevelt Room meeting Thursday include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn, plus former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright, James Baker and Henry Kissinger.
Former defense secretaries William Cohen and William Perry and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft also are included. Vice President Joe Biden will preside, and Obama was to drop in on the meeting.
The White House is mounting an all-out push for ratification of the treaty, which Obama has made a top foreign policy priority. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he believes the New START deal will come up and pass during the lame-duck Congress, now in progress.


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Re: Obama Enlists Big Names to Push Nuke Treaty
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2010, 08:29:30 am »
Yeah and who's going to enforce this policy in the former USSR? The US, psh please we can't even enforce law here, let alone in a place that is HUGE.

We're selling ourselves short, the Cold War is happening all over again and it's gonna go Hot.

We have no fallout shelters, bunkers, or food stores, we in some deep stuff.