START Treaty

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Sidebar to riot. Do you think missle defense systems in existence or those to come should be a part of START? If not we're on the same side! Finally!!!!!!!

I think doddering old Senators that try to suddenly back-door amend treaties that were signed with foreign entities last April, treaties the doddering old Senators have always supported, for the sole purpose of trying to screw the President of the United States politically, need to be ignored and voted down just as they were.

START treaty will pass, as it has since Reagan, and that's good.

Edit: START just passed, too!

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday ratified an arms control treaty with Russia that reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in Congress' waning hours.

Thirteen Republicans broke with their top two leaders and joined 56 Democrats and two independents in providing the necessary two-thirds vote to approve the treaty. The vote was 71-26.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

I think doddering old Senators that try to suddenly back-door amend treaties that were signed with foreign entities last April, treaties the doddering old Senators have always supported, for the sole purpose of trying to screw the President of the United States politically, need to be ignored and voted down just as they were.

START treaty will pass, as it has since Reagan, and that's good.

Edit: START just passed, too!

What does your answer have to do with defense systems? But what I expected from you!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

What does your answer have to do with defense systems? But what I expected from you!

Goes directly to the major amendment regarding defense systems the GOP was trying to make in order to halt the treaty from passage and cause renegotiation with the Russians, but of course you know that. And you knowing that I supported passage of the START treaty would predisclose you having to even ask "what I thought" about missile defense systems past or present being included in START, but of course you know that, too :-)

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Goes directly to the major amendment regarding defense systems the GOP was trying to make in order to halt the treaty from passage and cause renegotiation with the Russians, but of course you know that. And you knowing that I supported passage of the START treaty would predisclose you having to even ask "what I thought" about missile defense systems past or present being included in START, but of course you know that, too :-)

Then I give you credit for raising your hand.

What's next taking helmets and flak jackets away from the troops? New 'green' fiberglass destroyers? Heck maybe we can recycle coffee cups into tanks?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Then I give you credit for raising your hand.

What's next taking helmets and flak jackets away from the troops? New 'green' fiberglass destroyers? Heck maybe we can recycle coffee cups into tanks?

I, like god, need the code for what this is supposed to mean.

The START treaty just passed did not in any way limit or restrict our present or future missile defense systems, in spite of two GOP Senators falsely making such public claim. That claim was disproven within hours.

[geeker2]

"You fucl<in' people... you have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today...."

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

The START treaty just passed did not in any way limit or restrict our present or future missile defense systems, in spite of two GOP Senators falsely making such public claim. That claim was disproven within hours.

an "interrelationship" between nuclear weapons and missile defense should never had been included in the treaty whether in the premable or not.

I just 'hope' Obama's 'non-legal binding' letter to the Senate promissing going foward with Bush's missile defense systems both in Europe and here including protecting us from Iran.

[jms62]

Waste of time and money by our government. Does anyone really think that either side is going to stick to it?