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Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World
jamie points out news that President Obama has put out a call for a world free of nuclear weapons at a speech in Prague today. He acknowledged that it was a long-term goal, perhaps not something that can be accomplished in his lifetime, but promised to encourage the US Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty. According to the BBC, he also stated his desire to "negotiate a new treaty to end the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons," and to hold a global summit within the next year to work out agreements for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Obama said, "As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it." His speech came less than a day after North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket.
Prepare for fallout!
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Obama has never suggested we ban personal guns. How a totally idiotic comment like this gets modded "insightful" boggles the mind. I guess this place really is being overrun by right-wingers.
Oh and BTW. Booth was not a patriot, he was a traitor of the highest order.
Stop getting your news from Fox and right-wing talk radio.
Some people would consider Mr Bush to qualify as such.
Yes, some people are indeed loudmouthed, apologist, dumbshits. Two-bit? He ran the most powerful nation on earth for eight years. Dictatorship doesn't apply because he was narrowly voted in both times, had to argue with congress on almost every law he signed, even then had some of them overturned by the courts, and left when his two terms were up.
As to Israel and Pakistan, so fucking what. Who the current nuclear powers are has nothing to do with whether it's a good idea to let Iran, North Korea, or anyone else for that matter become a serious nuclear threat to the rest of the world.
They're called clues. Get one.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.
Nonsense! You just start with a commercial interest being threatened, and fire up a propaganda campaign painting those standing in the way as authoritarian nutbags who pose a threat to the free world. Mouth a few platitudes about "human rights" to the left, so they'll fall in line, and poof, you have a mandate for an invasion. Send in the troops, pick a viceroy, and accept a pleasant sinecure at some pseudo-academic "Institute" once you retire.
I mean, if you consider that kind of thing "evil". Maybe it's not evil when Americans do it; I'm not that familiar with the sliding scale we judge them on.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Dear USA, Please keep your "help" to yourself. Sincerly, Signed: The Rest of the World
Dear World,
If you want to be Socialist, feel free.
Stop pressing us to do so.
Sincerely,
The people of the United States
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