[Peace-discuss] Disgusting liar

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Obama Seeks Massive Increase in Nuke Spending
	Claims Billions in Funds for New Facilities
	Part of 'Disarmament Strategy'
	by Jason Ditz, January 30, 2010

In a move he insists is somehow consistent with his call for disarmament, 
President Obama is seeking more than $5 billion in increased funding for 
America’s nuclear weapons program, aimed chiefly at modernization and building 
new facilities.

Vice President Joe Biden detailed what he thought was the case for the 
investment, perplexingly arguing simultaneously for a world without nuclear 
weapons and for America to make “long overdue” investments in strengthening its 
own nuclear stockpile.

Though this funding will not actually be used to produce additional nuclear 
weapons, opponents caution that it will give the administration, and future 
administrations, the capacity to greatly increase the number of warheads in 
America’s arsenal, at a time when the administration claims to be trying to 
complete comprehensive warhead reduction agreements.

Though Vice President Biden portrayed the investment as crucial for creating a 
“safe, secure and effective” collection of weapons capable of murder on an 
unprecedented scale, he also pointed to Iran’s illusory nuclear weapons program 
as one reason for America to shore up its own, already enormous arsenal.

The move is likely a political one, coming just weeks after Sen. Joe Lieberman 
(I – CT) penned a letter demanding the massive increase as a condition for 
Senate support for the new START treaty with Russia. Still, it will likely do 
serious harm to the Obama Administration’s credibility when it urges other 
nations to pare down their arsenals.

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