A Reminder Of What Obama Plans To Do With America - In His Own Words
Hyscience — Here on the night of Michelle Obama's scripted-for-public-consumption spin introducing Barack Obama, is a good time to to again remind those readers who may be deluded by Democratic spin to make Obama seem centrist - what he "really" plans for America's military, from his own mouth: He plans to unilaterally disarm America, and has planned to do so from the very beginning of his run for the presidency. ...

Obama's Evolving Stance on Missile Defense
RedState: Conservative News and Community — 'I think there's no doubt we should make the investment' Earlier this year Barack Obama made a few promises to the Priorities Action Fund, a left-wing organization devoted to cutting the Pentagon’s budget by 15%: “I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” “I will not weaponize space.” “I will slow our development of future combat systems.” Obama’s rhetoric sent shock waves through the missile defense community. After years of budget cuts and setbacks during the 1990s, the Pentagon is once again making significant strides on missile defense. ...

Once Again: That Little Reminder Of Who Does And Doesn’t Want To Keep Us Safe
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — (”What the fuck did he say? … He’s gonna do WHAT?”)

Obama has a Defence Policy.....it was drawn up by Russia, China and Iran!
Theo Spark — H/T Shelly

What is Obama’s defense policy?
QandO — Well in case you’re wondering, here it is in his own words: And you wondered where he was going to cut spending to balance out all the big spending proposals he has? Behold. (HT: McQ2)

USS Neverdock — USS Neverdock "America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb

Obama lays out his plans for America's defense:video
USS Neverdock — Music to our enemies ears.

What's Obama's defense plans on 9/11 - video
USS Neverdock — Thursday, September 11, 2008 What's Obama's defense plans on 9/11 - video This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

North Korea Tests Engine that could hit US
USS Neverdock — The Washington Post reports. "TOKYO, Sept. 16 -- North Korea has tested the engine mechanism for an intercontinental missile that might be able to hit major cities on the U.S. West Coast, according to an account published Tuesday in the South Korean press. " Obama's response? "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space."

Obama versus Moscow on defense - video
USS Neverdock — Moscow Will Boost Defense Spending to $50 Billion Obama's response?

High Cost Of Bailout: Military Preparedness
Wizbang — The only 'program' facing any real, meaningful cuts after the monstrous bailout packages set in motion is.... the United States Military . The effective cost of the various bailout packages is that the expansion of the U.S. military that had been set in motion is now effectively dead. D-E-A-D. That's the word in Washington that no one wants to talk about, proving once again that regardless of which party's administration sits atop the Executive, the military is the only federally mandated 'program' ever under consideration for real and meaningful cuts. There is, of course, more slashing to come -- deep and wide -- while the rest ...

What is the cost of the bailout?
QandO — A lot more than $700 billion. Steve Shippert says it may cost us our national security: The effective cost of the various bailout packages is that the expansion of the U.S. military that had been set in motion is now effectively dead. D-E-A-D. That’s the word in Washington that no one wants to talk about, proving once again that regardless of which party’s administration sits atop the Executive, the military is the only federally mandated ’program’ ever under consideration for real and meaningful cuts.Because it is one of the few federal programs which isn’t an ...

Whittle: Bidens Hint
Articles on National Review Online — A few days ago, Joe Biden was trotted out to make his monthly gaffe. Last time — I think it was last time; it s hard to follow without a program — it was about how Hillary might have been a better VP candidate. This time he mentioned that a young President Obama was likely to be tested in his first six months. Anyway, that s what he said, before being rotated back to the Cone of Silence. The thing I actually like about Joe Biden is that these gaffes of his are actually just the product of a man speaking his mind, and some of the time, he happens to be correct. [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] There have been a lot of guesses as to ...

Muck Bucket
Silent Running — This is a posting of personal experience. Not a distillation of other news circulating about - but based on my own direct observation, and opinions of same. I joined the US Air Force in August of 1979 - the last part of the Carter Presidency. My reasons for joining weren’t political, or with a determination for service, but quite simply because I was consumed by the thrill of aviation. Plain and simple. And the Air Force offered the best path to satisfy that ‘itch’. By a series of seemingly unlikely, and totally unplanned and unforeseen (on my part, at any rate) opportunities, I did end up becoming a “flyer” - as something called an Airborne ...

Video: Obama vs Military Spending
The Jawa Report — October 26, 2008 Video: Obama vs Military Spending In comments mr_e_m_t linked a video by the Obama Campaign dated 10/22/07. Obama lays out his military defense plan I find it odd this appears for imbed code: Embedding disabled by request Luckily others downloaded it. For those of you who haven't seen it before this is for you. By Stable Hand at October 26, 2008 08:54 PM | | l digg this

The Obama-Frank defense cuts create an opening
The Next Right — My friend and colleague, Pat Ottenhoff, had an interesting analysis of Virginia back in June that could be on the money: Major federal contractors set up shop in Northern Virginia and, in turn, subcontracted work to technology firms that hired accountants and lawyers. The young professionals who work at those firms in Tysons Corner, Reston and Ashburn are part of Obama’s core constituency. But the ideology and lifeblood of many of these firms is rooted in continued defense spending — one part of the Bush legacy that McCain would be sure to continue. In an election in which ...

The Obama-Frank defense cuts create an opening
RedState: Conservative News and Community — McCain can ride these differences My friend and colleague, Pat Ottenhoff, had an interesting analysis of Virginia back in June that could be on the money: Major federal contractors set up shop in Northern Virginia and, in turn, subcontracted work to technology firms that hired accountants and lawyers. The young professionals who work at those firms in Tysons Corner, Reston and Ashburn are part of Obama’s core constituency. But the ideology and lifeblood of many of these firms is rooted in continued defense spending — one part of the Bush legacy that McCain would be sure to continue. ...

The Religion of the Left
AMERICAN DIGEST — There is a world dimensional For those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable. --Hart Crane I've written elsewhere that one of the "things you can't say about the First Terrorist War" is that it is, at bottom, a war of two religions. So it is with the culture wars in America today. It too is, and you are not supposed to say this either, a war of TWO religions. Then again, that is not quite right. Try it this way. We are fighting a war of two religions in which only one side is allowed to be designated as a religion -- the Right. "The Right" in ...

Obama demanding 10% cuts in defense
Hyscience — He's just living up to his campaign promise to strip our military and naively leave us defenseless in an increasingly hostile world.

No OffensePre
The American Spectator — Special Report No OffensePre By Windsor Mann on 2.27.09 @ 6:07AM I don't understand the point of exercising, which I'm told has something to do with health and wearing Umbros. Yet, as mystified as I am when watching Sweatin' to the Oldies 3 on VHS, I am not as confused as Barack Obama is when talking about missile defense, a topic much easier to comprehend than Richard Simmons. It's also more controversial. President Obama knows that missile defense is a touchy subject internationally, as underscored by Russia's protests against the planned deployment of anti-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. Within hours of Obama's ...

Obama’s Potemkin Military Reception=No Scandal; Troops Plan Who Will Take What Questions From Bush=Huge Scandal [Reader Post]
Flopping Aces — “Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday. Quite a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem? According to a sergeant in Iraq : We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via ...

Dissecting Leftism — Obama Did Not Order the Kill That Freed Capt. Phillips Sorry libs. Obama did not give the direct order to kill the Somali pirates. You'll have to wait another day for the cut-and-runner to earn his hero badge. Blackfive has the real story: I just finished listening to the press conference w/ ADM Gortney about the rescue of Captain Phillips. At the time it happened the USS Bainbridge was towing the lifeboat to calmer waters as the sea state was deteriorating. One of the pirates was on board the Bainbridge as the talks about obtaining Phillip's release continued. The lifeboat was approx. 25 m behind the Bainbridge when snipers ...

Obama’s welcome in Iraq was staged
Stop The ACLU — Obama’s welcome in Iraq was staged Posted on April 13, 2009 “Cheered wildly by U.S. troops”, begins Jennifer Democratic Operative Loven’s AP report on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday. Quite a contrast to the silent treatment Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem? According to a sergeant in Iraq : We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via ...

Thank Reagan and Bush, not Obama, for SDI
Just Politics..? Daily Feed — Thank Regan and both Bushes for it. The Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, was established under President Ronald Reagan in 1984 when the threat of nuclear war from the Soviet Union was still a very real possibility.  The television movie, The Day After, had come out in 1983 and reminded us all of the threat nuclear war posed to ...

Estimates
Neptunus Lex — In 2001, intelligence estimates said that Iran was five years away from being able to assemble the components for a nuclear weapons program. The 2003 National Intelligence Estimate doubled that figure to ten years, “early next decade” at the soonest, more probably not until 2015. In the summer of 2003, national media outlets took heart at the news that the intelligence community was re-assessing the products it had developed asserting the presence of WMD in Iraq – an important, but by no means exclusive rationale for going to war there. There were murmurings here and abroad that, rather than cautiously balanced ...