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    Bill Introduced Restricting Nuclear First Strike

    Bill Introduced Restricting Nuclear First Strike

    The Bill: https://lieu.house.gov/sites/lieu.ho...EU_050_xml.pdf

    https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/...st-use-nuclear

    Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu and Senator Ed Markey introduced H.R. 6179, the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2016. This legislation would prohibit the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress. …

    Senator Markey issued the following statement:

    “Nuclear war poses the gravest risk to human survival. Unfortunately, by maintaining the option of using nuclear weapons first in a conflict, U.S. policy increases the risk of unintended nuclear escalation. The President should not use nuclear weapons except in response to a nuclear attack. This legislation enshrines this simple principle into law. I thank Rep. Lieu for his partnership on this common-sense bill during this critical time in our nation’s history.” …

    Mr. Lieu issued the following statement:

    "Our Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew the President could launch a massive, potentially civilization-ending military strike without authorization from Congress. Our Constitution created a government based on checks and balances and gave the power to declare war solely to the people’s representatives. A nuclear first strike, which can kill hundreds of millions of people and invite a retaliatory strike that can destroy America, is war. The current nuclear launch approval process, which gives the decision to potentially end civilization as we know it to a single individual, is flatly unconstitutional. I am proud to introduce the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2016 with Sen. Markey to realign our nation’s nuclear weapons launch policy with the Constitution.” …

    William J. Perry, Former Secretary of Defense – “During my period as Secretary of Defense, I never confronted a situation, or could even imagine a situation, in which I would recommend that the President make a first strike with nuclear weapons—understanding that such an action, whatever the provocation, would likely bring about the end of civilization. I believe that the legislation proposed by Congressman Lieu and Senator Markey recognizes that terrible reality. Certainly a decision that momentous for all of civilization should have the kind of checks and balances on Executive powers called for by our Constitution.” …

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    'Something Very Serious Transpired' Between Russia and US Over Syria

    Gilbert Doctorow, European Coordinator for the American Committee for East West Accord
    We reached a new low," the analyst said.

    Doctorow described the US' behavior at the UN as "rude."
    He also noted that such rhetoric has been absent from the UN Security Council meetings for decades.

    We have not seen "this level of open hostility and direct name calling" since 1985.


    "The violence of this, the extreme hostility implicit in these actions
    suggests that something more is going on between the two sides
    than we find on the front pages of the newspapers,
    " the analyst observed.

    Doctorow further said that the US-coalition airstrike on the Syrian Arab Army in Deir ez-Zor
    and the SAA resuming air raids in Aleppo are not sufficient to explain this level of verbal hostility.

    Doctorow recalled that the Western media
    did not cover the Russian Defense Ministry's press briefing
    over Daesh's illegal oil trade with Turkey.


    "That was dramatic. It was a fantastic demonstration. What was the result? Zero.
    There was no coverage in the Western press

    although all of NATO military attaches in Moscow
    were scribbling furiously
    and taking as many photos of the Russian flights as they could," he said.

    In Doctorow's opinion, the Syrians and the Russians "can prove anything they like,"
    but mainstream media in the West will "totally" ignore it.

    "That is a sad fact today.
    This is why force and not diplomacy
    seems to be resolving the question or seems to be addressing the question of what future Syria has.
    Diplomacy has only been decorative."

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    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    'Something Very Serious Transpired' Between Russia and US Over Syria Gilbert Doctorow ... ""The violence of this, the extreme hostility implicit in these actions suggests that something more is going on between the two sides "
    I got the same impression. Of course Washington would not be too happy about their ISIS brigade in Aleppo getting demolished, but their bizarre and wholly unwarranted emotional conniption fit was an extremely peculiar and weird reaction. From Powers and London's ambassador walking out on the UN Security Council, to Samantha Powers temper tantrum drama event at the UN, to calling the attack limited strictly to the ISIS/Al Nusra forces as "barbaric" - the entire comical Washington spectacle was an exceptionally freakish response.

    Why would Washington get so spastically bent out of shape over a successful raid against ISIS? Unless, perhaps included within the ISIS targets that became casualties were Washington's advisers embedded with ISIS.
    Last edited by AZJoe; 09-27-2016 at 08:51 PM.
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    I thought Americas position was that nothing was off the table. Keeps others skeered.

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