The American Disarmament

I mentioned this in a post yesterday, but I wanted to highlight it again because it's so critically important. Via Gateway Pundit:

"I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it. Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems. And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending. Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals."

Barack Obama
22 October 22, 2007

Here's the video:


Obama wasn't kidding.
It looks like his 2007 promises are about to come true.
The Times Online reported today that Barack Obama will cut America's nuclear arsenal by 80% and renege on the promised missile defense systems for our allies in Europe:

President Obama will convene the most ambitious arms reduction talks with Russia for a generation, aiming to slash each country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent.

The radical treaty would cut the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000 each, The Times has learnt. Key to the initiative is a review of the Bush Administration’s plan for a US missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, a project fiercely opposed by Moscow.

Mr Obama is to establish a non-proliferation office at the White House to oversee the talks, expected to be headed by Gary Samore, a non-proliferation negotiator in the Clinton Administration. The talks will be driven by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

No final decision on the defence shield has been taken by Mr Obama. Yet merely delaying the placement of US missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic — which if deployed would cost the US $4 billion annually — removes what has been a major impediment to Russian co-operation on arms reduction.

Obama's college thesis at Columbia was reportedly on Soviet nuclear disarmament.
Isn't it about time someone dug that up?

World Net Daily has more on Obama's feckless move.

This is probably the one thing which concerns me more than what he's trying to do to our economy. Without every weapon at our disposal, Americans will be at greater risk in a world with many nations who would like to see us brought low. Obama is willingly volunteering to put a loaded gun at the head of our great nation, begging for someone else to pull the trigger.

This has got to stop before America is attacked again.

There's my two cents.