President Barack Obama presides over a Historic (& Unanimous) UN Vote over Nuclear Disarmament

[TheCoxwain]

Source: AP

With U.S. President Barack Obama presiding over an historic session, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-drafted resolution Thursday aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

Russia, China and developing nations supported the U.S.-sponsored measure, giving it global clout and strong political backing.

The resolution calls for stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote disarmament and "reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism."

It was only the fifth time the Security Council met at summit level since the U.N. was founded in 1945. And Obama was the first American president to preside over a Security Council summit, gaveling the meeting into session and announcing that "the draft resolution has been adopted unanimously."


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This is a fucking coup .... Obama is 10 steps ahead of every one else ... Go eat your hearts out - you bloody neocons!

[coffeenap]

1. YAY!!!!!OMG!!!!!! Been trying to do this forever!!

Keep your eyes on the prize, as they say! This is why we need brains and morals in the highest level of government. This is a world leadership position, finally!

[AusDem]

21. but Obama is a greedy corporatist controlled by the military

industrial complex. must be a mistaken headline.

[ArcticFox]

60. Obama seems to invite international prosecution of Bush officials

From the NY Times:

Mr. Obama said that the resolution was about ensuring that international agreements have real-world heft. “International law is not an empty promise, and treaties must be enforced,” he said.
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This would seem to be a statement inviting other countries to seek prosecution under the the Geneva Conventions.

[humbled_opinion]

93. Yes President Obama is full of firsts.

That is why the right hates him so much because his actions will remake the world in a peaceful image and undoing them will be politically impossible.

[66 dmhlt]

113. Just thought there should be a photo ...

Of such an iconic moment:

[impik]

95. What a gutsy, gutsy, visionary president

Love this man to pieces.

[BuelahWitch]

109. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Overseas]

2. K&R /eom

[peacetalksforall]

3. By noon, the tea people will have received their stomping points and they will

be demanding the continuation of bombs because not having proliferation is too much governnment. Maybe this will freshen on the argument for this one - move away from the too much govt to unprotected because of the degree we are hated for our freedoms.

Does this mean that Cheney and Khan will break up?

What's the difference between stopping and ridding? One takes longer?

[lillypaddle]

12. No, they will say

that the President is weak & naive. They are a bunch of jerks. The President can do no good in their eyes - ever.

[dbonds]

13. No, this move will fire up the anitchrist nuts.

[ashling]

53. Cheney and Khan

Ali or Ghengis?

[damonm]

65. Kublai. n/t

[ashling]

67. The one with the Domed Strip Club?

The Pleasure Dome

[RedCloud]

73. Since they are from the Angry Red Planet, they will strike.

Just sneeze on them.

[Window]

4. Fired up and ready to go! Big k/r.

:kick:

[zonkers]

20. Fired up?????!!!!....... ReADY TO GO?!!!!!!!!

[Tippy]

26. K&R...Congratulations Mr. President

This is great news.....

[DUlover2909]

36. "Let's go change the world."

:toast:

[butterfly77]

74. Yes,because...

"We are the ones we have been waiting for"

[bemildred]

5. This should be a nice chile pepper suppository President Obamas enemies. nt

[quiet.american]

11. Lol! Awesome imagery. nt

[bemildred]

69. But unfortunately defective grammar.

:hi:

[quiet.american]

72. :) nt

[HamdenRice]

111. I thought you wrote "enemas"

This should be a nice chile pepper suppository President Obamas enemas. nt

[maseman]

6. Hello...I am a God fearing Christian

and I think we should have hundreds of nukes that could evaporate the earth at any moment. It is the Christian thing to do.

Who would Jesus bomb? Everyone out side the US.

[monmouth]

7. What is that awful noise? Explosions????.....Nah, the right just got the news.....n/t

[Fire1sKid]

102. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[nradisic]

8. Job well done President Obama

Very cool indeed....I keep saying that Barack is playing a 3 dimensional game of chess while everyone else thinks it is still a game of checkers....he is so far ahead on multiple issues and that is because he approaches problem solving from a totally different perspective...people with cognitive dissonance just don't get it.

Historical moment...

[goclark]

9. I agree ~ he is also Young and not stuck on "the old way" of doing things

The young voters are seeing what a President looks like for the first time.

After 8 years of Bush, they must be thrilled and I am happy for them.

[Robeysays]

57. You have no idea :D

It's all we talk about, at least those of us who care about politics.

[Odin2005]

83. this young voter agrees!

:)

[tabatha]

31. Agreed!

[Divine Discontent]

10. oh what a beautiful mornin! :)

[TheCoxwain]

14. Corrected ...thx

[Divine Discontent]

19. thanks! ;)

[euphoria12leo]

15. Good Job President Obama

Wait a minute, is that why my neighbor (a republican) is standing on his roof? He must have gotten the news.
I hope he doesn't jump. He doesn't speak anymore (the Obama/Biden yard sign ended that) so I can't ask if he's OK.


:applause:

[NewAgeThinker]

16. LOL @ everyone's comments

I'll bring this topic back up in a few weeks lol

Ya sure great news, if you are not one of our allies you cannot have nuclear arms!
You think they will ask Israel to dump their stockpile?

Come on man be realistic

[berni_mccoy]

18. Enjoy your (brief) stay.

[zonkers]

24. Israel is fired up and ready to go.

[berni_mccoy]

17. Obama has the Support of the World (minus a small shrinking number of idiots in the U.S.)

[vinylsolution]

22. This is heroic stuff.....

.... and it means more $billions saved, which can then be spent on helping people, instead of WMDs.

Let's shrink the military industrial complex until it can be drowned in the bathtub.

Onward! :patriot:

[graywarrior]

23. Man, did he just raise the bar.

Absolutely incredible.

[TomCADem]

25. John Bolton's Head Must Be Exploding Along With Other Neocons

[Rosa Luxemburg]

37. LOL, Yes!

[NoSheep]

68. Incoming!!!!

(John Bolton's Head) :nuke:

[AlphaCentauri]

27. I'll be waiting for the day the security council destroy their nuclear weapons

some day. yeah right.

[angrycarpenter]

28. The MIC will try to kill him for this

I hope his SS people stay sharp.

[TheCoxwain]

29. not neccessarily .. less nuclear means more conventional weapons.

[Chulanowa]

56. Well, so long as they keep the missiles just outside the security zone...

I have to say, my faith in the Secret Service is pretty weak after THAT bullshit

[Cha]

30. Thank you President Obama for presiding over this

historic resolution. I know you want this to happen for the whole world and I'm just grateful that you're there instead of neocon that America spits out.

[bora13]

32. me thinks this will delay armageddon

the christian right are sure to take this hard, what about my rapture? We have rights to you know. :nuke::party:

[Cha]

61. There's always self-

:nuke:imploding.:)

[Spazito]

33. Excellent, excellent news!

Thanks for posting this.

Recommended!

[nolabear]

34. That's MY President!

My GOD it's nice to feel good about our president and our standing in the world again.

[mzmolly]

35. : )

:toast:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. He ain't no Rookie!

He seems to have more done than any previous president!

Motto: Getting Things Done!

[ProSense]

39. President Obama Meets the Peacekeepers

here

[appamado amata padam]

78. dupe; please delete

[appamado amata padam]

79. Thanks for that link;

In addition to the heroic and historic achievements, I continue to be impressed with President Obama's obviously heartfelt concern for all humanity, and his gracious tact.

[indimuse]

40. KNR! N/T

[niceypoo]

41. Curious how the party of NO will react to this one

Well, in my heart I do know. They will attack it as some sort of weakness. This represents a dismantling of the neocon American empire, doncha know? I'm sure they will trot out the Cheney anger/slime family for the occasion.

[robo50]

43. Personally, I hope all their heads explode! Of course we only have to

wait for Glenn Beck's show to come on to find out how they will work this into their conspiracy theory... Obama is Hitler, taking over the world be forcing our allies to give up their nukes... etc etc.

[OllieLotte]

42. I'm not convinced that this is good.

There is something to be said for mutually assured destruction. The first 50 years of the 20th century saw two world wars where almost 100 million people were killed. While we have had plenty of wars since then, no one has wanted to go the nuclear route. Losses due to war, have been far less, even though there are many more people in the world and the conventional weapons are far deadlier. The US lost 400,000 in the second world war alone. I doubt that people have gotten nicer. I think it's because they have less to gain and more to lose in a nuclear world when picking a fight.

[TheCoxwain]

44. I really doubt that we will actually go down to zero nuclear weapons... MAD will continue to exist

but without having to spend billions in maintaining 10's of thousands war heads ..

we can have just 10 warheads -- and yet have deterrence.

More importantly -- the few that remain can be safeguarded reliably- and that reduces the fear that non state actors will get their hands on one.

[OllieLotte]

45. I would be happy with just enough for a good deterrence. n/t

My father and grandfather both served in world wars. My brother and I didn't have to. I attribute it to the nuclear weapons and the fact that we dealt with a somewhat rational Soviet Union.

[bananas]

71. This is very good news!

MAD almost happened a number of times by accident.
We've also learned that even a small nuclear exchange can have extreme climactic effects.
http://nuclearrisk.org/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x193139
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=185354&mesg_id=185354

[pberq]

46. kick!!! How refreshing! nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. But but but we need those bombs for THE END TIMES

We're supposed to strip mine and deforest and pollute and then finally blow the blessed thing up just in time to be rescued by Jesus floating down in a cloud! Obama IS the antichrist trying to handcuff our dear glorious Lord from doing his apocalypsical will.

That's it, I'm getting my crayons out and making another sign!

[No Elephants]

48. Good! K and R. He did something neat about nukes when he was in the

Senate, too, but the details are escaping me at the moment and I cannot google it now. IIRC, it was about ending build up of nukes beyond what is more than enough to destroy the planet. (Yes, believe it or not, that would be a victory in this country/world.)

He really knows this field and it is one of his major goals. And he is good at persuading people on this topic (and, of course, on others).

[fascisthunter]

49. Just watched a program on the effects of the bomb on Nagasaki

nukes can never ever be used again.

[BreweryYardRat]

80. There's also a book called "Hiroshima Diary" that you might want to read.

I saw a copy and bought it on a whim. It's a translated excerpt from the personal diary of a doctor who lived in Hiroshima. He was there when we dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945, and the excerpt runs from August 6 to late September. The 29th, I think.

Grisly stuff.

[fascisthunter]

114. the images are now etched in my mind

[BabbaTam]

50. Our wonderful new president

God bless and protect our president! I am proud to be from the USA!

[myrna minx]

51. Wonderful! K&R n/t

[ashling]

52. Not so fast!

Where does John Bolton stand on this?









































:rofl:
♠

[Wizard777]

54. This is just too awesome for words! But I'm sure Obama will find the words any way.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:


:fistbump: :applause: :headbang: :yourock: :headbang: :applause: :fistbump:

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Robyn66]

55. Blessed are the peacemakers

How to you think the Right is going to shit on this?

[DireStrike]

58. Untaintedly excellent accomplishment!

It's about damn time!

[goclark]

59. What a gift to the world this is ~

[Mithreal]

62. Does this acknowlege Israel's weapons or countries that did not sign NNPT?

I'll read the story later, no time now, but curious.

[Solly Mack]

63. K&R

[defendandprotect]

64. Ah . . . sanity .... !!! Welcome!!!

[ChazInAz]

66. Ah....

Mirabile dictu!

[JDPriestly]

70. This is wonderful!

Obama must have worked very quickly on this. It is amazing that this progress has been made in just the short time that he has been in office.

I am one of the loudest to voice disagreement with policies I believe are wrong. But I think that at this time it looks like Obama may be the greatest president we have ever had thus far in terms of making progress toward international peace.

This is just a first step, but we finally seem to be headed in the right direction.

[silenttigersong]

75. McCain and Palin...

Would have Bomb, bomb, bombed, Iran by now,this is why I voted for President Obama.Diplomacy is a great way to "defend "protect our country.:applause:

[Trillo]

76. Great News. No more blow up the world?

I remember when I was a kid, they taught me in grade school it was important to read the newspaper every day, a lesson I took to heart and ended up reading nearly the whole paper everyday (sometimes I'd skip stories after reading the title and first paragraph) During some of the years of the latter 60s and early 70s, I remember being quite convinced we were all going to die at any moment in nuclear annihilation, all as a result of reading the news. It was scary.

Maybe future kids won't need to be as scared as I was.

[marshall]

77. Iran and North Korea are going down!!!

The UN will take their nuclear play pretties away from them.

[dr_aswan]

81. Isreal probably has planes in the air now...UN mandate

[Odin2005]

82. See? THAT'S the man I voted for!

[Retired AF Dem]

84. The number one job of our Govt

Is to protect the country and it's citizens from outside attack. All other considerations are secondary. I'm all for a cut in nuclear weapons, lets say 500 for countries that already have them. The day we give them all up is the day we become hostage to the one rogue nation that has one.

[bossy22]

90. i agree partly

as long as their is nuclear weapon know how (and there will certainly always be), then we should have a decent deterrent.

its just one of those sad facts of life....

[Retired AF Dem]

91. You are correct

The nuclear jeanie is out of the bottle and there is no way of putting her back.

[bossy22]

92. exactly

[Douglas Carpenter]

85. kick and recommended for sanity!!

[Piewhacket]

86. OK. I admit... that's awesome.

[daleo]

87. Now that the nuclear powers have reaffirmed an "aspirational goal"

To disarm someday, they could use this to justify invading any potential nuclear state that they feel like.

Nuclear powers will disarm the day that aliens force them to.

[eridani]

88. Extremely helpful--especially in conjunction with backing off of missile "defense" n/t

[bossy22]

89. its always good to dream

but we always have to wake up

the sad truth is that nukes are not going anywhere for a long time...or ever for a matter of fact. Even if society could get rid of all nukes, the knowledge on how to make one is still there.

Nuclear weapons are seen by smaller countries as their only military equalizer when it comes to the big boys (U.S., China...). They know that their conventional military force will never be able to withstand the full might of a major countries force, but they can attempt to create a mexican standoff.

[tnlurker]

94. Did this make any of the news show today?

I am watching Keith right now and he has made no mention of it.

[anakie]

98. it's all over the Australian press

I never get sick of saying this, thank (insert god or deity of choice) that the adults are back in charge.


Peace

[BillDU]

96. HellOOOOoooo

The resolution calls for stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote disarmament and "reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism."
This resolution calls for stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of drugs, promote no drugs and "reduce the risk of hard drugs."
Seems to me to actually be a declaration of war.
The only way to accomplish it is military.
Who's going to be the first to turn in their last nuclear weapon?
No I'm not anti Obama. I voted for him and support him on many issues.
I am not against him on this.
I just see something different than you.

[pinto]

97. Impressive, imho. Yeah!

:kick:

[Fire1]

99. SAY IT AGAIN!!!! "HE'S GOT THIS!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[springhill]

100. Uh, when do you think we're getting rid of ours?

My bet is never.

[Fire1sKid]

101. I am proud to call him my Commander and Chief!YEAH!!!!!!!

:party: :grouphug: :toast:
:cry: :applause: :dem:

[lovuian]

103. Nuclear War as a deterrent to war is over

it doesn't work
Glad Obama got the message

[Fire1]

104. He conveyed that message during his campaign. n/t

[Mind_your_head]

105. Wonderful! However, nuclear weapons aren't the biggest threat anymore

climate change is.

So, woohoo @ nuclear disarmament (expensive for all countries involved, and no longer necessary)....they/we've got BIGGER ISSUES ~ climate change and resource issues ~ to address, like YESTERDAY!

[ProudDad]

106. He definitely is one of the slickest mouthpieces ever...(n/t)

[BluDemocratGirl]

107. Excellent, President Obama!

I hope that he does a good job presiding on the most important meeting in the world.

[DatManFromNawlins]

108. Reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism = everybody but us can't have the bomb

And by us, I mean the countries which are already armed to the teeth with them.

[FrenchieCat]

110. !

:bounce:


:applause:

[HamdenRice]

112. More change I can believe in! nt