Posted on 05/29/2009 9:14:58 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
Former Clinton defense secretary William Cohen criticized the Obama administration for cutting back on missile defense just as North Korea ramps up its nuclear testing.
From ABC News' Jake Tapper
Writing the Washington Times, William Cohen, a Republican senator from Maine who served as President Bill Clinton's defense secretary from 1997 through 2001, says that President Obama's decision to reduce the funding commitment to the US missile-defense system by $1.4 billion "sends the signal that we do not take the threats of rogue regimes seriously, and are willing to take the risk that current technologies are sufficient to prevent devastating accidents or miscalculations."
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Reason for Optimism
My friend recently asked me the reason I am actually thankful that Obama won the last election.
My answer was: “When you drive a car off a cliff, you usually don’t have long to wait until things get shaken up considerably”.
William Cohen- a Clinton-era opportunist we havent heard from for a long time.
What blood in the water attracted him to step back into public dialogue?
North Korea has just invalidated Obummer’s brave new world without nuclear weapons proposal.
Now don’t you feel like a first class retard, Mr. Obummer?
0 is our Hitler, and his enemy is us, so from his perspective, anything he can do to weaken us is not a mistake.
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