I'm starting to wonder if the slicker isn't just evil.
"The Obama administration plans to invest in the nuclear arsenal.... to ensure it remains a reliable deterrent"
As he lectures the rest of the world against it.
"Senate panel expected to OK arms resolution" by Washington Post | September 16, 2010
WASHINGTON — Senator Richard Lugar’s draft is expected to be approved at a markup session as a substitute for one that Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts circulated two weeks ago. The committee would still have to deal with amendments, even after adopting the draft. More than 15 amendments, almost all from GOP members, have been sent to Kerry, but committee sources said the hope is that some will be worked into the resolution, possibly garnering additional GOP support.
In a breakthrough Tuesday, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee became the first Republican on the panel to say he would support Lugar’s resolution....
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"Arms-control treaty is sent to full Senate; 3 Republicans join Democrats in panel’s vote" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 17, 2010
WASHINGTON — In a rare show of bipartisanship, a Senate committee voted yesterday to send a new arms-control pact with Russia to a full vote, marking a key victory for the Obama administration and the panel’s chairman, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.
Related: Starting in on Russia
Russia's Cheat and Retreat
It's a PoS nothing that just allows Obama to proclaim a success during his abysmal presidency.
Three Republicans joined all 11 Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to approve the New START Treaty and give treaty supporters, who have run into a series of roadblocks in recent months, new confidence they will be able to garner the two-thirds support necessary for ratification in the full Senate....
I can't see them getting 67 votes in that building.
It needs 67 votes to be ratified, requiring at least eight Republicans. That is a tall order in today’s rancorous environment on Capitol Hill but one that Kerry said may be easier now after several Republicans on his committee offered their support....
Kerry said he is confident the full Senate will take up the treaty before a new Congress elected in November takes office. If Republicans gain a significant number of seats in the Senate, it could make ratification even more difficult....
But it was not always clear that the treaty would garner more than token Republican support on the committee — and it is still far from certain that it will be ratified by the full Senate.
Some senators on the foreign-relations panel said they would not support the treaty until they were assured that the Obama administration has an adequate plan to invest in the nuclear arsenal to ensure it remains a reliable deterrent against Russia and any other nation or group that possesses nuclear arms or is seeking them....
The Obama administration plans to invest in the nuclear arsenal....
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Related: In the Interests of Israel: Why Russia will not sell the S-300 Air Defense System to Iran
Also see: The Boston Globe's Stupid Ideas: Nuclear Disarmament
What a sick bunch of individuals.
At least we know who is in the cross hairs.
And as far as this next story goes, every time I see Chechen I thing "CIA-Duh."
"Chechen rebel wanted by Russia detained in Poland" by Michael Schwirtz, New York Times | September 18, 2010
That source is not going to convince me of anything.
MOSCOW — A self-described leader of Chechnya’s separatist movement, wanted in Russia on charges of murder, kidnapping, and terrorism, was detained by police yesterday in Poland, where he planned to attend a gathering of Chechen exiles.
The police detained the separatist leader, Akhmed Zakayev, who has denied the Russian charges, shortly after his arrival in Warsaw. But he was later set free by a judge.
If he were not CIA or a western intelligence asset he would be called a terrorist.
Russian officials tentatively praised the move, urging Poland to hand over Zakayev for trial. Russia has long sought the Chechen rebel’s extradition to Russia from Britain, where he has resided since receiving political asylum.
All those who harbor terrorists, blah, blah, blah....
Polish officials said this week that the police had an obligation to detain him if he arrived in their territory because of an outstanding Russian warrant for his arrest. But yesterday, Polish authorities said that any decision on extradition would be left up to the courts and that politics would not come into play....
Which means politics is in play.
A refusal to extradite Zakayev could have serious implications for ties between Poland and Russia.
They gonna go to war, huh, huh?
The former communist bloc allies have only recently begun to overcome years of bitterness in the aftermath of the Cold War, finding reconciliation through tragedy after the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and much of the government elite were killed in a plane crash in western Russia in April.
Related: Poland's Cross Conspiracy
Yeah, cui bono?
Relations between Russia and Britain chilled markedly after a London court refused to extradite Zakayev to Russia in 2003, ruling that he could face torture there. A court in Denmark also refused to extradite him.
As if that ever stopped western governments from shipping people out!
They are PROTECTING an ASSET!!
Russian forces fought two wars against militant separatists in Chechnya, a tiny, mostly Muslim part of Russia’s North Caucasus, and have yet to defeat a violent Islamist insurgency that has fanned out across the region in recent years.
But NOT TERRORISTS!
Militants wage attacks almost daily on police and government officials, and sometimes against civilians.
And HOW RARELY we READ ABOUT THEM in our "newspapers."
A suicide attack in the region last week killed at least 18 people at a market and wounded well over a hundred.
Related: Russia Regressing
Zakayev, 51, has sought to distance himself from such violence, and has long been viewed as a moderate voice among Chechnya’s separatist leaders. While he continues to insist on independence for Chechnya, his years of exile have made him a largely irrelevant figure there.
And yet here I have a whole article on him. Sigh.
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Also see: Obama's Nuclear Nonsense
Ummm, one, WE AIN'T BUYIN' the BIG BOOM this time, and two, if it does happen that means YOUR GOVERNMENT will have UTTERLY FAILED and so has the SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY and all its TYRANNY!!
Oh, no, there will be no unifying speeches from the rubble this time.
We will NEVER be FOOLED AGAIN!!
