Only a few days AFTER Obama announced he was ramping up the nuclear weapons program, he stated emphatically and proudly that he was working hard to bring an end to a world bristling with nuclear weapons and the annihilation they represented. He can do this kind of naked hypocrisy every bit as shamelessly as Bush. And he's either deluded enough to believe his own lies, channelling Reagan, or he's so contemptuous of Americans, not to mention citizens of other countries threatened by his war-centric inclinations, that lying to us is a cynical routine he learned from Bush. Anything this president says he believes or intends, except when he declares that surging in Afghanistan is a good thing, know that he means the opposite.

Obama is a corporate-sponsored politician, he spouted some slick rhetoric of change, just like Clinton did in 92 (but everybody forgot).

He promised support for single-payer health care system, now it is "off the table".

He made a very nice speech in Prague last year promising to work toward a "nuclear-weapons free world". Now he supports building a new generation of nuclear weapons.

He claimed not to believe in the failed "trickle down" policies of the past, yet he supports the trickle down, laissez-faire, neolib, neo-classical, BS.

Let's not be naive here, Obama is a liar. However in order to operate in an institutionally corrupt system, one has to be corrupt.

I miss George (at least he was honest).

That was a really big letdown and I had hoped that he wouldn't do it. Damn ! This party is getting harder to repair !

Why did Obama run as a Democrat?

Second paragraph of the article:

"Where is the promise to the rest of the world that the United States will lead in dismantling these weapons of terror? Remember, one single W-88 warhead from our local Trident submarine fleet on Hood Canal can incinerate an entire city the size of Seattle."

Why is the United States feeding the nuclear industry in India, which is NOT a signatory to the NNPT (NPT), while Iran IS a signatory?

The hypocrisy is blatant and internationally known.

It would be nice if our "news" Media became honest about aspects of our existence that our natural senses cannot sense.

You know. Like radiation. Or the electromagnetic spectrum regulated by the FCC, which really f*cked up my TV!

Curious minds want to know.

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"Mr President, Building Up the Nuclear Weapons Complex Is NOT Nuclear Disarmament"

When the CCCP collapsed and the cold war ended, the MIC was terrified! They were looking at the specter of having to make refrigerators and stoves, perhaps even get into real estate. A guy buys a refrigerator or a stove and he keeps it twenty years. Guy buys a house, he may be in it for many years. One sale! Where is the profit in that?

Guy buys a thousand pound bomb and, BOOM!, he buys another. That, my friends is real profit.

Phasing out nuclear power and coal/gas for solar/wind/wave/geothermal power cuts into huge profits by the associated corporations, heavily invested in by other corporations.

Nuclear weapon development has always been a protected multi-billion dollar cash cow. The SALT talks, the Arms Reduction Treaty, the Peaceful Uses of Space Treaty; all of these were anathema to those who control us, and the government, through their purse strings.

Bush unilaterally tore up those treaties, restarted the cold war and a nuclear arms race. Obama, instead of pushing for a reinstatement of those treaties, is aiding and abetting the increase of military power at the expense of We the People, and the world at large, but at greatly increased profits to the MIC. The bought and paid for Legislative branch goes along with it, and the bought Supreme Court will proceed to make it all legal.

Those few who still read and study history will recognize the parallels with 1930's Germany.

The German people failed to turn theirs around. Thousands were executed for making attempts to do so. Millions died because they no longer had any power to do anything but heil der Fuhrer and do what they were told.

Now that the Corporations, the Oligarchy, if you will, have consolidated their power to the point where they can come out in the open, we are rapidly finding ourselves in the same position. Our Constitutional Right to air our grievances and demand redress is getting ever more brutally suppressed by police. Heavily armed pre-emptive raids are made on people who are only planning or discussing a protest. Our alleged representatives either ignore our communications, or send us form letters which are puff pieces bragging about inconsequential legislative victories while ignoring our call for a return to the Constitutional form of government we once had.

I am no seer, but I see that the concentration camps built during the Bushwhacking years are still there, maintained and ready. NorthCom is training combat brigades in "suppressing civil unrest," the number of foreclosed, homeless, jobless, hungry and ill people is increasing exponentially. Sooner or later, the kettle is going to start to boil and overflow and they are ready for it.

In ancient days, when Ug and Og went from throwing sticks and rocks to inventing the spear, they did not resist using it. When others developed the same thing, Ug stockpiled spears until his cave could outgun the other. Then someone invented the bow and arrow and so it went.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed what could be done. East and West began yet another arms race, which finally stalemated. Now, many of our caves have nuclear weapons, but we have the most and have proven ourselves unstable enough to use them.

Sooner or later, someone is going to try a sneak attack on someone else. That will escalate, through fear (Am I next?) or retaliation. Probably, most of civilization (as we consider it) will be destroyed. Science Fiction is becoming fact farr too rapidly these days.

Einstein once said, "I don't know what weapons world war three will be fought with, but world war four will be fought with sticks and stones."

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He looked out of the mouth of the cave at the devastation before him, then, cautiously, clutching his spear, he went out to forage for food for his hungry family...

Who naively believes that those nuclear weapons will not be used again.

It is only a matter of time before the possessor of nukes use them in mass, ending humankind.

Thanks Mr. Obamageddon.

"I have been a hearty supporter of President Obama's vision . . "

Apparently one cannot agree with the words and actions both.