Obama lying about nuclear warhead

Barack Obama is lying about the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead

Examiner.com by Ann Garrison May 20, 2009 Barack Obama is lying about the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead (RRW).  He says that it’s not in his budget.

However, the RRW is in the $50 billion Pentagon “black budget,” and this is Commander-in-Chief Obama’s budget too.

1. Obama and the rest of the Pentagon are free to use the black budget at will, because Congress would rather not know or take responsibility for it.

In January 2009, the London Guardian reported that the RRW is still being developed at Britain’s nuclear weapons laboratory, Aldermaston.

Neither President and Commander-in-Chief Obama, nor Energy Secretary Chu, nor any Pentagon spokesperson denied the report.

As Director of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Energy Secretary Chu oversaw the development of the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Wahead from 2006 until 2008, when Congress finally defunded it, under pressure in an election year.

It is inconceivable that Energy Secretary Chu does not know that the RRW’s development proceeds at Aldermaston, but, Chu was at least telling the truth, in a very deceptive sense when, earlier this year, he said that it would not be in his Energy Department budget.

Barack Obama, however, is lying.  He is President and Commander-in-Chief Obama, with Constitutional, and military executive authority over the Pentagon.   The Pentagon’s $50 billion black budget is Obama’s budget, first and foremost.  He is lyiing when he says that his budget does not include the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead .

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m5d20-Barack-Obama-is-lying-about-the-Reliable-Replacement-Nuclear-Warhead

May 21, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive