Nuclear Treaty With Russia? Are we Just Trying To Destroy This Country? (Afghanistan, Brown)

[MIKEETC]

I don't see the problem.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by ElizNJ

This should never be ratified by a lame duck congress and there's absolutely no reason to push it through so quickly.

These congresspeople have been duly elected and are still in office.

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Some people on this thread act like there's never been a nuclear arms treaty before. I know some of you are young, and some didn't start following politics until last week, but geez, inform yourselves before blasting off!

[djacques]

Originally Posted by Jaggy001

The senate voted 71-26 in favor. A good many Republicans voted in favor. That is about as bipartisan as Washington gets. Truth is you will never please all the people all the time but, IMHO, the Senate got it right on this one.

Oh, I agree. I was sarcastically deflating the other poster's delusional world (the one where a quarter of the American population is "America" and everyone else is an enemy.)

[citizenkane2]

Originally Posted by ElizNJ

This should never be ratified by a lame duck congress and there's absolutely no reason to push it through so quickly.

My point exactly!!! This requires a lot more time and thought!!

[wellyouknow]

The US offensive and defensive capabilities come up on top in this treaty, why would the chicken hawks here object to it?

[citizenkane2]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

The better questions would be:

Why not take the time to debate the merits and shortcomings of this treaty on the Senate floor in January with the new Congress?

Why negotiate from a position of weakness rather than one of strength?

Why was this treaty necessary at this time?

Why negotiate a nuclear arms treaty with a nation who is actively assisting Iran in going nuclear?

Why negotiate a nuclear arms treaty with a nation who is actively selling arms to the dictator Hugo Chavez?

Why negotiate a treaty with a nation who invaded one of our allies, Georgia, in recent years?

Those questions make too much sense.....

Oh ...and didn't the Russkies invade Georgia 3 years ago??

[citizenkane2]

We really trust this man??

[TnHilltopper]

Originally Posted by citizenkane2

Those questions make too much sense.....

Oh ...and didn't the Russkies invade Georgia 3 years ago??

Yes in response to Georgia aggressively shelling South Ossetia.

Georgia fired first shot, say UK monitors - Times Online

[wellyouknow]

Originally Posted by citizens

Those questions make too much sense.....

Oh ...and didn't the Russkies invade Georgia 3 years ago??

That's an offensive disparaging ethnic term for Russians similar to the 'N' word for Blacks here in the US.

Run out of arguments much, must drag your knuckles?

[Smash255]

Again to those who don't like this treaty. Would you like Russia be able to build as many nukes as they want? Did you have a problem withe Reagan pushing for this in the 80's and Bush 41 signed the original start treaty in 1991?

As for this being pushed quickly, again everything has been available since April, many committee hearings on it were held. Hell, when Demint wanted to read this on the Senate floor, he was told point blank that it was available to read for eight months and if he thought it was so important perhaps he sould not have skipped those seven committee meetings on the Start Treaty that he did.