Ok, NOW will you idiots on the right hand side of the aisle ratify the START treaty???!!!

[Clio the Leo]

.... since the Koreans are FIRING at one another????

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4625809&mesg_id=4625809

What else is it going to take?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Clio!

They can't! Don't you understand???

Ratifying the START treaty would be giving a victory to Obama!

And they couldn't bear that.

Disgusting, all of them.

:argh:

[Parker CA]

2. 14 seriously injured and 1 potentially killed. This doesn't look good at all. nt

[ashling]

3. "potentially killed"?

:shrug:

[lawwolf]

4. Sorry, I don't see the connection?

Now I admit I don't know much about the new START treaty, but what does a treaty with Russia have to do with North and South Korea shooting at each other again?

[Clio the Leo]

7. The only parties in the world who oppose START are North Korea, Iran and the GOP...

... we cant very well condemn North Korea's uranium enrichment plant while refusing to reduce the number of arms we have.

With all due respect, you NEED know about the START treaty.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/key-facts-about-new-start-treaty

[lawwolf]

8. Thank you for the link

It seems that it still leaves both countries enough nukes to wipe each other, or any other country off the face of the earth if the mood strikes though. But I still don't see how a treaty with Russia that leaves us with over a thousand nukes has any effect (affect?) on our ability to try to hold other countries to the non-proliferation treaty (is NK even a signatory to that?)

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we shouldn't ratify the treaty (I guess it is not possible to get rid of all of them), I just don't see why NK attacking SK would have any connection to the treaty.

[Clio the Leo]

11. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=531541&mesg_id=531955

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Republicans don't understand, someone needs to explain

[sweetapogee]

6. not just republicans

I don't understand what START has to do with North Korea either.
Please explain.

[GSLevel9]

9. just curious...

but isn't a treaty only worth a shit if the participants FOLLOW the treaty? You think a treaty would affect the behavior of NK? lol...

[Clio the Leo]

10. The US doesn't want to be the lone stand out with N. Korea and Iran to NOT want to reduce nukes...

.... is the point. By failing to ratify START, that's what it looks like.

If US and Russia are in an agreement on an arms reduction deal, it becomes hard for China to support North Korea (or even Iran's) efforts to build a stock pile.