you know what? everyone blew this all out of proportion in the shelling of the island, the sinking of the cargo ship or the naval festival. not nearly as dumb as thinking thanks to the start treaty vladimir putin is going to help us with iran. laura: republicans who ended up supporting this start treaty, looking at the polls, right, ralph. they did a great disservice to our country. laura: every single one of them from lugar on down when they re up for election should be challenged by primary challengers. i hope the tea party is watching tonight. why on earth, laura, it s going to be 2011 in a few days, why are we still comparing ourselves to russia this deadbeat state that s bankrupt. in that treaty russia gave up nothing they didn t want to get rid of. we gave up stuff we need. laura: but, ralph, the president has made it clear and the the washington post and new york times coverage on this day clear that this was the first step toward full nuclear disarmament.
you know what? everyone blew this all out of proportion in the shelling of the island, the sinking of the cargo ship or the naval festival. not nearly as dumb as thinking thanks to the start treaty vladimir putin is going to help us with iran. laura: republicans who ended up supporting this start treaty, looking at the polls, right, ralph. they did a great disservice to our country. laura: every single one of them from lugar on down when they re up for election should be challenged by primary challengers. i hope the tea party is watching tonight. why on earth, laura, it s going to be 2011 in a few days, why are we still comparing ourselves to russia this deadbeat state that s bankrupt. in that treaty russia gave up nothing they didn t want to get rid of. we gave up stuff we need. laura: but, ralph, the president has made it clear and the the washington post and new york times coverage on this day clear that this was the first step toward full nuclear disarmament. if he
you know what? everyone blew this all out of proportion in the shelling of the island, the sinking of the cargo ship or the naval festival. not nearly as dumb as thinking thanks to the start treaty vladimir putin is going to help us with iran. laura: republicans who ended up supporting this start treaty, looking at the polls, right, ralph. they did a great disservice to our country. laura: every single one of them from lugar on down when they re up for election should be challenged by primary challengers. i hope the tea party is watching tonight. why on earth, laura, it s going to be 2011 in a few days, why are we still comparing ourselves to russia this deadbeat state that s bankrupt. in that treaty russia gave up nothing they didn t want to get rid of. we gave up stuff we need. laura: but, ralph, the president has made it clear and the the washington post and new york times coverage on this day clear that this was the first step toward full nuclear disarmament.
treaty russia may lose interest in this and walk away and we have to start all over from the beginning. probably in my mind the last and most practical reason is we have not built nuclear war heads in many years, and our stockpile is aging. there will come a time when we don t know how serviceable those things will be, so it s to our advantage to go ahead and get them out of the inventory. jon: many of those who object to the street tee, though, say that it is not so much because of what it does vis-a-vis russia but that it does, perhaps, because they feel they haven t had enough time to look eight it does perhaps leave us open to an attack from aeu iran or north korea. how do you answer that? i don t think this particular treaty, which is between russia and the united states would either advantage or disadvantage the iranians for what it is we