Clinton’s New START Misstatements
The Foundry — Heritage Foundation
May 20, 2010
In her testimony today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urging the Senate to consent to the ratification of the April 8th Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated the following:
Now, some may argue that we don’t need the new START treaty. But the choice before us is between this treaty and no treaty governing our nuclear security relationship with Russia, between this treaty and no agreed verification mechanisms on Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, between this treaty and no legal obligation for Russia to maintain its strategic nuclear forces below an agreed level. And as Secretary Gates has pointed out, every previous president who faced this choice has found that the United States is better off with a treaty than without one, and the United States Senate has always agreed. The 2002 Moscow Treaty was approved by a vote of 95 to nothing. The 1991 START treaty was approved by 93 to 6.
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In these areas, Secretary Clinton’s testimony is factually incorrect on both counts. First, the Senate’s choice is not between this treaty or no treaty. The Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Strategic Offensive Reductions of May 24, 2002 (Moscow Treaty) is in force today and will remain in force if New START is not ratified, according to its terms, until the end of calendar 2012.
Second, there has not been an unbroken record of Senate support for bilateral strategic nuclear arms control treaties with the Soviet Union or Russia. The Senate’s support for the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) of June 18, 1979 was so tepid that President Carter, on January 3, 1980, asked it to defer consideration.
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Interview: Dudley Brown on UN “Small Arms Treaty”
AmmoLand.com
May 16, 2010
Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- I know I don’t need to tell you that the United Nations is anti-gun.
With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading the charge for a new “small arms treaty,” our right to keep and bear arms faces a serious threat from the anti-gun conspirators at the UN.
As a member or supporter of the National Association for Gun Rights, I thought you might want to watch this Reality Report interview with Executive Director Dudley Brown discussing the threat of a United Nations gun ban.
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