Obama Kicks Off Nuclear Summit, Highlights Emerging Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

Again, this is one of the great things about Obama which marks real leadership. He is being proactive and taking the lead in building an international coalition to combat nuclear terrorism. He’s not waiting for a nuke to explode in a major city to bring a crisis and force panicked action. A bad leader (see Bush) is constantly overwhelmed by “unexpected” crises. A good leader sees what’s coming down the road and heads off problems before they become a crisis.

“”"”"A good leader sees what’s coming down the road and heads off problems before they become a crisis.”"”"”
Posted by: hopesprings52
Who doesn’t know Iran, NK or Al Qaeda is trying to find, make or buy a freekin’ nuke to tango with us? That’s not leading. Leading is eliminating that threat. This is all talk, because who do you think is supplying NK (hint: China has a veto vote) and who is supplying Iran (hint: Russia has a veto vote) and they are both at this summit. Nobody, not even the UN can stop NK and Iran, so my best guess is Israel will by 2011. If one more solid piece of evidence comes from the IAEA about Iran building a nuke, watch the reaction from Israel. They’ve done it before and they will doit again. That will start the crisis you say this leader can avoid.

All Obama knows how to do is talk. I am so sure that by having international talks that is just the deterrent needed to keep these weapons out of the hands of the terrorists. No doubt…as soon as these muslim extrememists get their hands on these weapons they will use them not debate them. Grow a pair Obama and do a better job protecting our country.

Israel Issues Warning To Citizens To Immediately Leave Sinai Peninsula, “Terror Attack Imminent”
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2010 12:10 -0500
* Israel
Are things between Israel and Egypt about to get really heated?
From BNO News:
JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) — Israel’s anti-terror bureau warned on Tuesday that a terror attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is imminent and all Israelis must leave the region. The warning message said, quoting intelligence sources, that a terror attack in which Israelis could be kidnapped is imminent, Israeli media reported. “We call on all Israelis now in Sinai to leave at once and return to Israel,” the warning said. “Families of Israelis now in Sinai are requested to make contact and update them of this travel warning.”
More from Sky News:
Israel has issued an “urgent” warning to its citizens to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula immediately.
It comes after “concrete evidence” of an expected terror attempt to kidnap Israelis in the region.
The warning was issued by the Israeli prime minister’s office.

Before anyone posts parroting the nonsense about how no other president would ever have pursued such an approach, about how Obama is a radical leftist seeking to dismantle America, a little historical perspective for the record: “As I have indicated in previous statements to the Congress, my central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially, and ultimately eliminate, nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.” Ronald Reagan 1988
Never fear, we still have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet many times over and are quite capable of retaliating “conventionally” against any nation foolish enough to attack us with a nuclear device (or otherwise). It is much more important to reduce wasteful excess and work to otherwise limit the availability of nuclear materials to rogue nations and/or terrorists than to maintain a ridiculous arsenal.

All Obama knows how to do is talk.
s | Apr 13, 2010 1:56:29 PM
He is sure a great talking then – everything from talking up a stimulus bill, talking the heads off of Somali pirate holding an American hostage, talking the Taliban into numerous routs by a much enlarged US force, talking health insurance reform into existence, talking the DOW Jones up to a new record, talking away student loan handouts to the bank (saving tens of billions a year, forever), etc.
Yup, quite a talker that Obama.

Imagine if Obama had spent the last 15 months working on this rather than the bankrupting of America (Obamacare). Priorities!

It’s funny reading all those comments about President Obama being all talk and so on….he may be all talk, but he’s also getting things done. That’s why the conservatives are all up in arms. He’s brought this country back from the brink of depression and he’s working hard to reduce nuclear weapons, improve health care for all Americans, and improve the economy. I guess if he had a banner stating “Mission Accomplished,” or some sarcastic “hopy/changy” comment, everyone would love him. I’d rather respect the person for taking on the tough subjects and moving the country (finally) in a positive direction. I know the right will fight every move, but like the Tori’s during the American Revolution, they will ultimately loose.

this is all a smoke screen. nothing will come out of this. same nonsense as global warming summit. just a man created by rich liberal hollywood pretending to be president.
P.S. the Chinese and Russians will NEVER help us. At least Bush was smart enought to understand that.

As far as accomplishments, he did pass a “health care” bill which the majority of americans are against, so it is true he hasn’t done nothing. Internationality, he is seen as a weak leader. So I guess he accomplished being perceived as weak. So add that to his list. Yup, lots of accomplishments.

Concrete accomplishments of Obama meeting and conferences —- Olympics? nothing!…. Copenhagen? nothing! …. Nuclear summit? Nothing! …. Start Treaty? Russians get to “opt out” if Obama makes them mad… and the Ruskies get to call 16 nukes on one plane as ONE delivery vehicle!! — This guy will fool some of the people… but not those who are actually paying attention!!!!

I particularly liked the part when Obama congratulated the Ukraine as the only country that committed (in two years, or so) to give up their enriched uranium…. Obama said “OK, we’ll take it!”, only to be told…. “No, it’s going to Russia.”

“”"”China and Russia are clearly willing to talk, coming to us to do so, “”"
Posted by: jhw539
That is all they will do. They are making billions off the two nations and will veto any sanctions that have teeth to protect their interests. This is an international showing and nothing more. If it were more answer yourself this question: Will anyhting they do or say in this conference change the direction of Iran or NK? Nuff said!

Loyal Opposition: You didn’t read my post. I said CONGRESS. BOTH parties. And not just THIS congress, the ones before. They are always bickering and that’s why nothing gets down. Pres. Obama is trying but how can he get things done when they act like children? And other countries, we must TALK to them, which he is doing, being mature and not attacking. I know you will never agree because you always get on and attack this president and the Dems. That’s the problem, no one really looks at both sides…just keep bashing each other. Yes I’m a Dem but I do look at both sides and realize the Dems have some faults also….we all do. The thing is to try and overcome them.

P.S. the Chinese and Russians will NEVER help us. At least Bush was smart enought to understand that.
robert | Apr 13, 2010 2:26:13 PM
That’s not what Bush said he saw when he looked into Putin’s eyes…

They immediately go for the jugular, trying to pass the largest entitlement bill in 50 years, and not only that, they include provisions (abortion funding, the “public option”) that have been avoided even by Dems for years!!! —- ANd even with their SUPERMAJORITY, they can’t get thie OWN party to pass it for 14 months!!!! — Yeah, that’s maturity!!!!
TheLoyalOpposition | Apr 13, 2010 2:42:44 PM
Dude, we all just lived this. Outside of right wing fantasy land, what you said is just flat out not true.

C’mon Barb, you know if the President and Congress push half as hard for jobs and small business as they did for insurance regulation, we could be well on our way to recovery.
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 2:58:25 PM
Oh please, the VERY FIRST THING this Congress did was pass the stimulus bill, which included hundreds of billions in tax cuts (including for businesses). They’ve been VERY active in freeing up lending to small businesses through the TARP, which is now costing less than half what it was predicted to cost when implement under the Bush administration. And the stimulus funds have been slowed by an unprecedented focus on avoiding fraud (quite amazing that with the amount of spending and rabid Republican oversight, no – none, not a dollar- of fraud has yet turned up) but are flowing and doing their job to pick up the economy.
But that’s all documented reality. Sorry if it doesn’t support your talking points and bumper sticker.

While summits are politically good, where is NK and Iran?
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 3:08:51 PM
Gee, I wonder who would be the first to scream bloody murder if Iran and NK’s leaders were even invited to the Whitehouse.
And last I checked, those two countries do not have thousands of nuclear weapons and nuclear material rambling about loose.

That’s not what Bush said he saw when he looked into Putin’s eyes…
Posted by: jhw539 | Apr 13, 2010 3:04:53 PM
at least Bush looked in his eyes…Obama would be bowing and unable to….

What? Could you point out what is flat out not true and I will correct you?
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 3:12:02 PM
“Obama is elected, the Dems gain a supermajority —– The Dems and Obama assume they can pass any bill they want (we’ll call that arrogance)!”
The Democratic caucus did not have a super majority in the Senate until July – and even then only if you include Joe “Vote for McCain” as a Democrat.
“They immediately go for the jugular, trying to pass the largest entitlement bill in 50 years,”
The first, very well publicized and major action was the stimulus bill and TARP, GM, Chrysler, et. al to try to mitigate the Republican Recession. Health care didn’t heat up until months later, after the economy had been addressed and everyone had to stand back to see what happened.
“and not only that, they include provisions (abortion funding, the “public option”) that have been avoided even by Dems for years!!!”
The Senate Democrats never even brought any bill to the floor including these measures. The public option was negotiated away by the Gang of Six in their futile effort to win a Republican vote. The inclusion of non-profits in the exchanges was very publicly substituted at the insistence of Sen Snowe (R).
” —- ANd even with their SUPERMAJORITY, they can’t get thie OWN party to pass it for 14 months!!!! — Yeah, that’s maturity!!!!”
This is just absurd hyperbole, but I’ll accept it if you agree to drop the stupid “they rammed it through Congress!!!!” nonsense. The vast majority of time was wasted trying to get buy in from the Republican Senators, who based upon town hall statements were ultimately negotiating in bad faith and just stalling.

“”"”And last I checked, those two countries do not have thousands of nuclear weapons and nuclear material rambling about loose. “”"”"
Posted by: jhw539
While you checked, did you notice over 75% of the countries invited don’t have nukes either? This is about controlling nukes and abiding by the treaty, which would have been a perfect opportunity for an invitation to 2 countries not abiding by that treaty don’t ya think?

In light of porkulus money going to non-existent congressional districts and zip codes, the assertion that there has been no fraud is ludicrous.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Apr 13, 2010 3:22:55 PM
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Please give us the details of the money handed out illegitimately and where it went.
How much? And where did it go? How many projects were illegitimate? Where’s your proof?

jhw539 —– Obama did well authorizing the killing of pirates. He did well sending more troops to Afghanistan (should have fulfilled the request). He did well working with Bush for the TARP. You say the GOP stalled everything, you are wrong. Obama reached out 2 times, once when he went to talk to the GOP on the hill and the summit. GOP reached out and asked him to their meeting where they gave him a white paper of requests for the health insurance bill. The su,,it happened and within 5 days and not one more meeting with the GOP, he told Pelosi to go for the 51 votes for reconcilliation. Considering the Dems had the “supermajority” and did all this without the GOP, to say the GOP stalled is a lie. The GOP told them up front they were against it and maintained that posture through today. You need to take off your Dem blinders and take a good look at the chain of events.

You need to take off your Dem blinders and take a good look at the chain of events.
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 3:32:43 PM
I don’t have the time to refute that fairy tale. Needless to say, the documented ‘reaching out’ occurred in the months of Senate committee negotiations, not the “rip it up and start over” suggestion from Republicans after a completed bill had been passed with a super majority. The number of substantive Republican amendments that are part of the bill – almost 100 (there were actually almost twice as many as that, but about half were pretty inconsequential stuff like dates that did not really move policy) – are also public record.
If Republicans had any ideas for health care that penciled out, they would have implemented them when they were in charge rather than the pharma benefit pander. Instead, all we have from their tenure in early 2000 is a line of CBO research papers calling out how insignificant national tort reform or sales across state lines (ie, taking away the states right to regulate insurance) would be.

“Just weeks after a U.S. Senator’s scathing report (A Second Opinion on the Stimulus) documented $55 billion in wasteful projects—…
The first reveals that about $1 million went to nearly 4,000 jailed convicts…
A separate news report says that, despite Obama’s promise of a transparent stimulus plan free of politics, the government is dishing out hundreds of millions of dollars under a cloak of secrecy that is clearly susceptible to political influence. Among the undercover allocations is $15 million for a rarely-used Canadian border checkpoint in Montana…
A Mexican border station in Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s home state is getting almost five times more than any other station (nearly $200 million) and a North Dakota checkpoint that serves only 70 people a day will receive nearly $15 million for renovations even though it ranks among the lowest priority projects…
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 3:38:53 PM
Gee, so a Republican Senator is whining that the legitimate government projects being funded – including some to strengthen our borders ( Arizona has border problems? Wow…)? Sorry, but Republicans thinking that spending money on supporting our economy and infrastructure (as opposed to Iraq or something) as waste isn’t fraud. And the mis-sent checks, besides being a fraction of a percent of the funding, were also identified, caught and recovered. IE, the system worked.
But sure, I guess there is a bunch of fraud, but the MSM – including the biggest of the stations, FoxNews – is repressing the news, Right?

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Uses of Stimulus
Putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done
10. A $427,824 research grant to design better video games for senior citizens based on their unique game-play needs.
9. Funding of a Dartmouth College study involving sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats ($9,870).
8. Funding of a $168,300 SBA loan to the Escape Massage parlor in Midlothian, VA.
7. Funding a $447,492 Univ. of North Carolina study on the development and use of African American English amongst 70 adolescents.
6. $10,346 for a heating and cooling company to provide escort services for other companies performing a laser scanning survey at a courthouse in Honolulu, Hawaii.
5. An academic study comparing outcomes of the concurrent and separate use of malt liquor and marijuana ($389,357).
4. A $225,000 study at Ohio State University on the relative and combined impacts of air pollution and a high fat diet on obesity development.
3. A $712,883 research grant to develop machine-generated humor. Project will design artificially intelligent comedic performance agents, and will deploy them both on and off-line for the enjoyment and illumination of everyday citizens.
2. A $54 million project to relocate one bridge for the Napa Valley Wine Train (!) in order to mitigate the possible impact of a 100 year storm event.
And the number one most ridiculous use of stimulus funds
1. $9.3 million (!) to fund the design and development of a coordinated colony of robotic bees!
Our tax dollars hard at work, saving or creating jobs for mad scientists and masseurs everywhere. And Im sure Ive only scratched the surface with these.

You know, the pork Obama is supposed to eliminate and hasn’t on any of his bills yet?
lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 3:53:16 PM
No I don’t know, since pork is a meat, not a defined type of spending. And please provide THE ACTUAL QUOTE where Obama said he’d eliminate “pork”.

Posted by: lfrichar | Apr 13, 2010 4:00:20 PM
Apparently you’ll believe (and spout as truth) anything the right wing blogs tell you . . .

I suggest anyone google up the robotic bee program. Sounds like exactly the kind of cutting edge “pork” that keeps America’s economy on top (and yes, we are still on top). And about the same funding mechanism that was used to fund the initial expansion of the Internet beyond the military (how’d all that ‘pork spending’ turn out anyway?).

Obama never authorized the killing of the Somali pirates.If you knew any SEALs you would know the true story
Nephron | Apr 13, 2010 4:37:26 PM
That’s pathetic – you’re pushing a fairy tale spread by email now? If that’s the explosive story with the slightest – TINIEST – bit of truth to it, it would be on FoxNews 24/7 for at least a week. But there is no truth to it. This is why political discourse is breaking down. One side is ready to argue the justification of government infrastructure spending to counter an economic downturn, while the other is just making up blatant lies.

jhw539,why did they wait until they were 20 miles from shore? You don’t know any SEALs do you?Everybody at Little Creek knows the truth-you don’t even know what that means.If you don’t think they are persecuting the SEALs you are crazy.Was David Frum lying?

Fred Kaplan has a good post up at Slate pertaining to Sarah Palin (see Talk About Posturing: Palin and Gingrich are wrong about Obama’s nuclear strategy. ) He gets in a few good zingers:
“If there were any doubts that Sarah Palin is a total idiot, she settled them with that single statement….
…Tip to Sarah Palin: Obama may have some vulnerabilities, and you may have some strengths, but command of the issues doesn’t fall in either category.”
But also makes some key points, like –
“As for Palin’s dig, here’s the substantive rebuttal, should you need one: Obama’s policy does not say we won’t retaliate if someone hits us. Rather, it says we won’t retaliate with nuclear weapons if the attacker has no nuclear weapons and is not in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
In other words, to state the policy in the terms of Palin’s analogy: If some unarmed kid on a playground punches me in the face, I’m not going to blow his head off with a .44 Magnum. (But I will beat the crap out of him every other way.)”
Pertaining to Beck, Michael Lind posted a good article at Salo called “Glenn Beck’s partisan historians”— just in case you’re one who repeats blatant disinformation about progressives and liberals. Its interesting– not just a rant.

This so called “summit” is nothing but a huge ego driven political photo op for Obama. It’s a sham. It will be followed by meaningless accomplisment announcements and maybe even a worthless treaty signing. IT is intended to help with the November election.

“No matter how hard the MSM attack Sarah Palin, I trust her more than Obama. ” – talk from sf
Huuummmmm . . . .
Probably because, like Reagan, she actually has moral values and principals she adheres to as opposed to that other guy you mentioned.