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To: unclewest who wrote (293476)	2/22/2009 6:29:24 PM
From: mph	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794494

I suspect the Prez is going to learn---the hard way---that there are no secrets in D.C.

To: unclewest who wrote (293476)	2/22/2009 7:05:25 PM
From: MrLucky	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794494

rotstar.blogspot.com Right Of The Star An attempt to provide balance to the blogs of the Rock River Valley and the RRStar. Monday, June 9, 2008 Obama Proposes To Gut Military -- Why All These Failed Policies? In the middle of a war on two fronts, Barack Obama plans to gut the military. He also wants to dismantle our nuclear arsenal. And he wants to keep you in the dark about it. (...) In a 132-word videotaped pledge (still viewable on YouTube), Obama agreed to hollow out the U.S. military by slashing both conventional and nuclear weapons. The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it's fighting. (...) His campaign Web site doesn't list a separate category for military or defense under "Issues." But search shows near-identical language there regarding nuclear weapons. His plan, needless to say, is frighteningly irresponsible given the world threats. (...) Cutting allegedly "unproven" missile defense systems is music to Kim Jong Il's and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ears, let alone all the PLA generals wishing our destruction. Yet Obama wants to kill a program that's yielding success after success, with both sea- and land-based systems. The military just this week intercepted a ballistic missile near Hawaii in a sea-based missile defense test. (...) We've been down this road before. President Clinton pursued a denuclearization program, including his 1995 pledge to sign a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and it led to him kicking open our nuclear labs to the Chinese, who proceeded to steal our warhead secrets and strengthen their own arsenal. Like the Ben & Jerry's crowd that supports him, Obama believes "real" national security is "humanitarian foreign aid" — essentially using our troops as international meals-on-wheels in Africa. We've been down that road before, too, in Somalia and elsewhere. Thanks, but we don't need a third Clinton, or a second Carter, term. Seriously, the only thing I can figure is that Obama is hoping for hard core left, blacks, and kids who have no idea that these policy proposals have already been tired and failed miserably. DKK IBD -- Obama's Plan To Disarm The U.S. Here is the video: Posted by LifeTrek at 5:56 AM Labels: Defense, National Security, Obama