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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: oldcoastie6468 on March 10, 2014, 10:02:36 AM
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This is so strange. Why haven't all of the media picked up on this and broadcast it or posted it?
Gee. It sure boggles the mind, huh?
Flashback: Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine
Obama traveled to Ukraine with Sen. Dick Lugar in 2005 just seven months after he became a senator, touring surplus weapons stockpiles
Most of the small arms and ammunition were left over when Soviets withdrew from Eastern bloc nations, and later dumped in Ukraine
The two senators secured U.S. funding to help destroy the weapons instead of leaving them intact
Ukraine exported more than 700,000 small arms in 2004-2007, including 101,000 each to Libya and the UK, and 260,000 to the U.S.
But most of the ammunition stockpiles – crucial for keeping a standing army battle-ready – were destroyed
Ukraine is in a staring match with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has designs on recapturing portions of the former Soviet nation
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 01:58 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 02:06 EST, 5 March 2014
As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help Ukraine destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition – weapons which are now unavailable to the Ukrainian army as it faces down Russian President Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea.
In August 2005, just seven months after his swearing-in, Obama traveled to Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine with then-Indiana Republican Senator Dick Lugar, touring a conventional weapons site.
The two met in Kiev with President Victor Yushchenko, making the case that an existing Cooperative Threat Reduction Program covering the destruction of nuclear weapons should be expanded to include artillery, small arms, anti-aircraft weapons, and conventional ammunition of all kinds.
After a stopover in London, the senators returned to Washington and declared that the U.S. should devote funds to speed up the destruction of more than 400,000 small arms, 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles, and more than 15,000 tons of ammunition.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-pushed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft-missiles-Ukraine.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-pushed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft-missiles-Ukraine.html)
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Read this elsewhere too, along with some speculation that it was for this that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for disarming an entire country.
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Read this elsewhere too, along with some speculation that it was for this that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for disarming an entire country.
Just think of all the lives of Russian invaders he may have saved! Of course that will probably be offset by the dead Ukraines, what is a few million more dead citizens if it saves the lives of invading armies and dictators?
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And Vlad still gives Obama the stink-finger for being such a useful tool...
We come out looking like a douche no matter if it was the Clinton-Blair-Putin deal that we reneged on or Obama and his stupidity!
Oh, and I hear the SCoaMF was out there today giving iron-clad assurances to the Baltic states of America's support...fricken sadistically hilarious! If I were them I would either be arming up like a fothermucker or just getting to frack out before the Rooskies invade them next!!!
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