>>>I guess the subject should be national defense, not military:
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http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america>>
>>It's a bit misleading for them to call it 'Obama-plans-to-disarm-America' considering that it's not what he said. Not wasting billions of dollars on starwars technology that is not only unproven, but has been shown to be fairly useless; not spending billions more on creating more nuclear weapons when he already has enough to destroy the entire world more times than necessary, is not the same as disarming America, but of course, that's what people will take from his speech.
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>Here is a list (from his words):
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>1. Cut investment in unproven missile defense systems
>2. Will not weaponize space
>3. Slow our development of future combat systems
>4. Goal of a world without nuclear weapons
> 4a. Not develop new nuclear weapons
> 4b. Seek a global ban on the production of fissile material
> 4c. Take icbms off trigger alert.
> 4d. Achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal.
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>I have my own opinion of each of the items listed above, but my goal in posting this information was not to agree or disagree personally, but to make the information available.
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Not sowing even a little bit of FUD?