“Lose Our Nukes So They Won’t Build”: Obama Demands Dramatic Reductions In U.S. Nuclear Arsenal In Order To Please Iran
U.S. commits to arms control, engaging with Iran
At a meeting of the IAEA, Obama’s envoy says U.S. seeks to make ‘dramatic reductions’ in U.S. and Russian weapons stockpiles and ban the production of new nuclear weapons material.
Reporting from Vienna — At the first board meeting of the world’s nuclear watchdog since the inauguration of President Obama, his envoy today committed the United States to diplomatic outreach and disarmament of its own nuclear stockpile as ways to dissuade nations such as Iran from pursuing atomic weapons.
Outlining a new American approach toward arms control, envoy Gregory Schulte noted the new administration’s “readiness for direct engagement with Tehran” to persuade its leadership to not pursue sensitive nuclear technology.
Schulte’s remarks were delivered to a closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors.
He also said the U.S. would resurrect nuclear disarmament efforts that fell by the wayside during the Bush administration, including making “dramatic reductions” in U.S. and Russian weapons stockpiles and banning the production of “new nuclear weapons material,” according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
“President Obama supports the goal of working toward a world without nuclear weapons,” he said. “His administration intends to renew America’s commitment to disarmament.”
The statement came a day after Navy Adm. Michael J. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he believed Iran had enough low-enriched uranium for a weapon, a conclusion also drawn by IAEA officials last month.
An Iranian official today rejected the statement as “baseless.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi noted that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had qualified Mullen’s remark by noting that Iran still had a long way to go before building a bomb, which requires highly enriched uranium.
“How is it possible that the enrichment level of 3% to 4% suddenly mounts to 90%?” Qashqavi said to reporters in Tehran, according to official news reports. “We have repeatedly said that manufacturing atomic bombs has no place in our defensive doctrine.”
Iran insists its nuclear program is meant only to produce low-grade uranium to generate electricity while the U.S., Europe and Israel allege it is trying to create a weapons capability. An IAEA report last month said Iran had accumulated at least 2,227 pounds of reactor-grade enriched uranium, an amount which could theoretically yield enough weapons-grade material for a single bomb.
Even with its 1-ton stockpile of nuclear material, Iran would have to take the dramatic steps of kicking out international inspectors, withdrawing from treaty obligations and begin further refining its enriched uranium, moves that would likely trigger a major global confrontation.
Western diplomats have tried for years to use international arms-control regulations to hem in Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
But here in Vienna, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei told diplomats that his inspectors and investigators were “unable to make any progress” in resolving questions about Iran’s past nuclear activities and continue to be barred from some nuclear facilities and personnel, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
ElBaradei noted during the first day of the board of governors meeting that construction on 10 new nuclear reactors began in 2008, the most since 1985, a year before a major accident at Soviet-built reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine frightened governments away from atomic energy.
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Our enemies are going to rip our throats out and laugh while doing it.
Acting President is a loon.
A muslim is coming out of the closet.
I thought the US didn’t deal with terrorists?
reduce by use
Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will soon be plowing for those who didn’t.
“Reporting from Vienna — At the first board meeting of the world’s nuclear watchdog since the inauguration of President Obama, his envoy today committed the United States to diplomatic outreach and disarmament of its own nuclear stockpile as ways to dissuade nations such as Iran from pursuing atomic weapons.”
The first sentence just shows how insane this idea is…..
The entire fucking world tried to “dissuade” iran from pursuing nukes, yeah its gotten really far.
And now we’ll show them they need to stop by getting rid of the only thing that keeps them in line???? this world has gone upside down. Nice “change” brak ubumma (borrowing from drill’s grand child)
Reminds me of an old bumper sticker ” when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns”
Traitor! This goes beyond the scope of his 4 year allotment as president, he has no right to cut off our nations balls like this, TRAITOR
Sure, iran wants nukes for peaceful purposes. Somebody please give obama a blowjob so we can impeach him.
Wait, I thought the celebs were going to convince Iran to be nice to us!
You have my vote for funniest comment of the day
Typical narcissistic pleaser when the going gets tough.
So he wants to make it possible for our enemies to strike us and have us be incapable of retaliating, thus destroying the concept of mutually assured destruction which was the only effective detente once previous traitors leaked nuclear secrets.
Forget lame duck this guy’s the anti-christ.
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Somebody stop this fool!
This is insane, the ignorant fuck has no clue. There are other countries that have nukes besides Russia… Hey here’s an idea lets become defenseless and communist.
“President Obama supports the goal of working toward a world without nuclear weapons,†he said. “His administration intends to renew America’s commitment to disarmament.â€
Humm…North Korea, China, India, Iran, Israel etc…
Saddle -Up
RR
so who is going to keep the lunatics in check when we ourselves have become a lunatic as well??? what do you think the competing countries that would love to see the downfall do when we open ourselves up and eliminate our deterence? This idiot in this office needs to be stopped now and all those who support him….our DOW is now below 7k and we are on a road not paved in Gold but paved in shit…IS THIS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE OUR CHILDREN???????
A country with 70% traitors has very little chance of surviving. Do we take the traitors out first?
Obama is in the process of putting burkas on our children, grand children and great grand children. He is also destroying the stock market so no one will have economic freedom to live by there own decisions.
I said this before and I’ll say it again.
Barack Obama is a historic evil.
10 million men in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4sVQV3Lhk
This is no surprise, he told us this during the primarys…..and people still voted for him anyways.
He also said he would choke the coal industry
and people said he was a “centrist”
There is no way this imposter can be impeached until after 2010 IF we take back the house.
LMAO Russian President just told the U.S. it will talk about missles and missle shields but no Haggling…..what a rookie Ubumma is……