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Bernie Sanders nails 'Tweeter in Chief' Trump for unleashing a 'dangerous nuclear arms race'
Source: RawStory
SARAH K. BURRIS
23 DEC 2016 AT 16:54 ET
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didnt mince words on Friday afternoon when he responded to Donald Trumps recent tweets about nuclear weapons.
Congress must not allow the Tweeter in Chief to unleash a dangerous and costly nuclear arms race, Sanders nailed the president-elect.
Bernie Sanders ✔
@SenSanders
Congress must not allow the Tweeter in Chief to unleash a dangerous and costly nuclear arms race. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/811977223326625792
3:31 PM - 23 Dec 2016
3,109 Retweets 6,469 likes
We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military making it more cost effective but also focusing on the real crisis that faces us, Sanders said in Iowa in November 2015.
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Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Somebody misread your post. 
but the usename choice which is inappropriate. MIRT must be taking a break to allow that to slip by.
Response to TexasTowelie (Reply #21)
SANDERS CALLS OUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS SPENDING AT #DEMDEBATE
Derek Johnson | 15 November 2015
UPDATE: At a rally on Sunday evening, Senator Sanders committed to major reductions to both U.S. and Russia's nuclear arsenals and the eventual total elimination of nuclear weapons in response to a question from a Global Zero activist.
At last night’s presidential debate, a major contender for the democratic presidential nomination told 8.5 million viewers that the U.S. is wasting billions of dollars on thousands of nuclear weapons -- all while underfunding efforts to counter violent extremism.
Senator Bernie Sanders told them we need major reform in military spending to refocus our priorities and resources on things that address real national security challenges. He stated emphatically: “The Cold War is over.”
Derek Johnson | 15 November 2015
UPDATE: At a rally on Sunday evening, Senator Sanders committed to major reductions to both U.S. and Russia's nuclear arsenals and the eventual total elimination of nuclear weapons in response to a question from a Global Zero activist.
At last night’s presidential debate, a major contender for the democratic presidential nomination told 8.5 million viewers that the U.S. is wasting billions of dollars on thousands of nuclear weapons -- all while underfunding efforts to counter violent extremism.
Senator Bernie Sanders told them we need major reform in military spending to refocus our priorities and resources on things that address real national security challenges. He stated emphatically: “The Cold War is over.”
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http://www.globalzero.org/blog/sanders-calls-out-nuclear-weapons-spending-demdebate
Sanders Calls for Limiting Nuclear Proliferation
Thursday, October 8, 2009
WASHINGTON, October 8 - Senator Bernie Sanders made the following statement:
“I strongly agree with President Obama’s call for 'a world without nuclear weapons.' As has been made apparent by recent provocative actions by North Korea and Iran, the threat of nuclear weapons is a present threat to the security of America and the world. We must limit nuclear proliferation, now and in the future. We must end the production of weapons-grade uranium. And we must heed what President Obama has called our 'moral responsibility' to lead the way toward reducing, and eventually eliminating, nuclear weapons. The president has taken a leadership role in the international community’s efforts to close the door on the production and spread of nuclear weapons. I support him, and urge him to continue these efforts.”
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/statement-sanders-calls-for-limiting-nuclear-proliferation
Thursday, October 8, 2009
WASHINGTON, October 8 - Senator Bernie Sanders made the following statement:
“I strongly agree with President Obama’s call for 'a world without nuclear weapons.' As has been made apparent by recent provocative actions by North Korea and Iran, the threat of nuclear weapons is a present threat to the security of America and the world. We must limit nuclear proliferation, now and in the future. We must end the production of weapons-grade uranium. And we must heed what President Obama has called our 'moral responsibility' to lead the way toward reducing, and eventually eliminating, nuclear weapons. The president has taken a leadership role in the international community’s efforts to close the door on the production and spread of nuclear weapons. I support him, and urge him to continue these efforts.”
Sanders: Nuclear Weapons Vs. Human Needs
Judy on May 27, 2015
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders recently declared his candidacy for President. On May 27, I joined hundreds of people at the South Church in Portsmouth NH for a town hall meeting with the Senator. He answered a number of questions from the audience, and I was able to ask the last one, about whether he supported the $1 trillion dollar build-up of US nuclear forces. It's "all about our national priorities," he said.
Sanders: Nuclear Weapons Vs. Human Needs
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders recently declared his candidacy for President. On May 27, I joined hundreds of people at the South Church in Portsmouth NH for a town hall meeting with the Senator. He answered a number of questions from the audience, and I was able to ask the last one, about whether he supported the $1 trillion dollar build-up of US nuclear forces. Here’s the exchange.
Judy: “Senator Sanders, I’m Judy from Canterbury NH. The United States already has thousands of nuclear weapons in its active military stockpiles, many of them on hair-trigger alert. And yet there is a plan, which the Administration apparently buys into, for a massive rebuilding of our nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles. A new fleet of submarines, heavy bombers, cruise missiles. It’ll cost a trillion dollars. Big profits for the corporations, but what do you think of this plan?”
Bernie Sanders: “Well, I’ll tell you what I think of it. It takes us right back to Carol’s question [previous question about a disabled child]. How does it happen that we have a trillion dollars available to expand our nuclear arsenal, but we don’t have the money to take care of the children in this country? What that’s about … What all of this is about is our national priorities. Who are we as a people? Does Congress listen to the military-industrial complex who has never seen a war that they didn’t like? Or do we listen to the people of this country who are hurting? And that’s what, in a sense, this campaign is about.”
Evaluating this exchange, I was glad to have raised the issue of the nation’s outrageously dangerous, expensive nuclear weapons modernization plan. Too few people worry about nuclear weapons nowadays, although we are still in great danger of a nuclear holocaust. That the audience responded enthusiastically to my question was gratifying....
Judy on May 27, 2015
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders recently declared his candidacy for President. On May 27, I joined hundreds of people at the South Church in Portsmouth NH for a town hall meeting with the Senator. He answered a number of questions from the audience, and I was able to ask the last one, about whether he supported the $1 trillion dollar build-up of US nuclear forces. It's "all about our national priorities," he said.
Sanders: Nuclear Weapons Vs. Human Needs
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders recently declared his candidacy for President. On May 27, I joined hundreds of people at the South Church in Portsmouth NH for a town hall meeting with the Senator. He answered a number of questions from the audience, and I was able to ask the last one, about whether he supported the $1 trillion dollar build-up of US nuclear forces. Here’s the exchange.
Judy: “Senator Sanders, I’m Judy from Canterbury NH. The United States already has thousands of nuclear weapons in its active military stockpiles, many of them on hair-trigger alert. And yet there is a plan, which the Administration apparently buys into, for a massive rebuilding of our nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles. A new fleet of submarines, heavy bombers, cruise missiles. It’ll cost a trillion dollars. Big profits for the corporations, but what do you think of this plan?”
Bernie Sanders: “Well, I’ll tell you what I think of it. It takes us right back to Carol’s question [previous question about a disabled child]. How does it happen that we have a trillion dollars available to expand our nuclear arsenal, but we don’t have the money to take care of the children in this country? What that’s about … What all of this is about is our national priorities. Who are we as a people? Does Congress listen to the military-industrial complex who has never seen a war that they didn’t like? Or do we listen to the people of this country who are hurting? And that’s what, in a sense, this campaign is about.”
Evaluating this exchange, I was glad to have raised the issue of the nation’s outrageously dangerous, expensive nuclear weapons modernization plan. Too few people worry about nuclear weapons nowadays, although we are still in great danger of a nuclear holocaust. That the audience responded enthusiastically to my question was gratifying....
http://gui.afsc.org/birddog/sanders-nuclear-weapons-vs-human-needs
