President seeks to get rid of all nuclear weapons

[Harry Dresden]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

we already had one....Reagan was considered a nuclear abolitionist.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

How about some context? When did he say that and who was he talking to. I noticed you didn't provide a link.

Ronald Reagan Quotes on Nuclear Weapons The Reagan Vision

 

[rightwinger]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

we already had one....Reagan was considered a nuclear abolitionist.....

He was?

 

[Harry Dresden]

The President went on to say...

I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.”


Finally, a president who gets it

we already had one....Reagan was considered a nuclear abolitionist.....

He was?

Ronald Reagan Quotes on Nuclear Weapons The Reagan Vision

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I'm still trying to figure out what country obama works for.

 

[Rocko]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

How about some context? When did he say that and who was he talking to. I noticed you didn't provide a link.

Google

So you refuse to ad context. Typical. How about he said this while we were in the midst of a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. Obama has the same rhetoric today, where it has become meaningless and outdated.

This is an open message board

You are free to challenge my quote from Reagan or add additional context. I am under no obligation to do so

Fine, I did add context to the quote. You're trying to say that Obama's view on nuclear weapons is identical to what Reagan's view was, when that isn't the case. Did our nuclear weapons stockpile grow under Reagan? Yes or no.

Reagan proposed the first START treaty
START I - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

So? Under Reagan we saw an unprecedented surge in our nuclear arsenal. Obama has destroyed some of out nukes and would destroy more. Trying to draw parallel between the two is kind of ridicules.

Actually, we saw a decrease in our nuclear arsenal under Reagan

Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

I don't trust wikipedia as a source. I'll look into it.

 

[Rocko]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

How about some context? When did he say that and who was he talking to. I noticed you didn't provide a link.

Google

So you refuse to ad context. Typical. How about he said this while we were in the midst of a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. Obama has the same rhetoric today, where it has become meaningless and outdated.

This is an open message board

You are free to challenge my quote from Reagan or add additional context. I am under no obligation to do so

Fine, I did add context to the quote. You're trying to say that Obama's view on nuclear weapons is identical to what Reagan's view was, when that isn't the case. Did our nuclear weapons stockpile grow under Reagan? Yes or no.

Reagan proposed the first START treaty
START I - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

So? Under Reagan we saw an unprecedented surge in our nuclear arsenal. Obama has destroyed some of out nukes and would destroy more. Trying to draw parallel between the two is kind of ridicules.

Actually, we saw a decrease in our nuclear arsenal under Reagan

Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

I don't trust wikipedia as a source. I'll look into it.

RW was correct. NRDC Nuclear Data - Table of Global Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles 1945-2002

 

[HenryBHough]

I'm still trying to figure out what country obama works for.

A futile task.

You'd get better results if you, instead, try figuring out what religion Obama works for.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Stupid move by a stupid liberal

If only obama was Caliph over the world. What a better place it would be. Life according to obama, everyplace.

Meanwhile more and more countries acquire more of them......is this guy connected to reality at all?

Barry Obumbler the clueless strikes again.

What a fucking moron.

I don't know what you guys are talking about

Obama didn't say these things, Ron Reagan did

It was fun watching you spring that trap.

I really enjoyed that one.

 

[Statistikhengst]

I'm still trying to figure out what country obama works for.

A futile task.

You'd get better results if you, instead, try figuring out what religion Obama works for.

chuckle, chuckle...

 

[Crystalclear]

Good choice of Obama. I can't imagine how anyone could be against this plan.

 

[1776]

Obama is a fucking retard.....why not call for rocks, knives, guns, sticks, etc to be banned too.....

 

[Rozman]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

This is so sad.
We have seen these past few months such instability in the world.
Iran is on their way to getting nukes...

And this guy wants to trash our nukes....
And we have people that agree with it,
Isreal would be just a crater by now if they didn't have the weapons to defend themselves.

I didn't want any talk of impeachment....

I hear any more of this sort of talk and I will be first in line to demand it.

 

[Statistikhengst]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

This is so sad.
We have seen these past few months such instability in the world.
Iran is on their way to getting nukes...

And this guy wants to trash our nukes....
And we have people that agree with it,
Isreal would be just a crater by now if they didn't have the weapons to defend themselves.

I didn't want any talk of impeachment....

I hear any more of this sort of talk and I will be first in line to demand it.

Uh, you realize that the president quoted was Reagan and not Obama, right?



So, you still wanna impeach Reagan?

 

[Seawytch]

Awesome thread, RW...just awesome.

 

[shart_attack]

Nuke where the muzzies are...focus dude!

Dearborn, MI?

 

[deltex1]

Mebbe Minnesota?

 

[shart_attack]

Obama is a fucking retard.....why not call for rocks, knives, guns, sticks, etc to be banned too.....

Because the rocks, knives and sticks are what he wants us to have in our fight against Islamofascism.

The guns, though? Eh, not so much.

 

[shart_attack]

Mebbe Minnesota?

Only if we give it to Canada first.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

“It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth"

Well said Mr President!

Do you support unilateral disarmament?