he is America's "own" covert Kamikaze!
Posted on 11/22/2013 6:22:04 AM PST by raptor22
Defense: Breaking yet another promise, this one to Congress, the administration jeopardizes our national security with plans to eliminate an entire squadron of intercontinental ballistic missiles and destroy its silos.
Yet another example of what President Obama meant in 2012 when he promised Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, that after his re-election he would have more "flexibility" on defense issues, comes on the news that an ICBM squadron would be scrapped to comply with the New START Treaty — even as both the Russians and Chinese deploy new ballistic missiles.
A document prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon maps out a strategy to eliminate an ICBM squadron — and destroy its missile silos — by Dec. 5, 2017.
The military would begin removing ICBMs next October, after an environmental assessment is complete, and the silo elimination would begin in May 2016.
The fact is, as the Heritage Foundation notes, the U.S. does not need to eliminate an ICBM squadron to meet New START's limits. The State Department's Oct. 1 fact sheet says the U.S. must dismantle 109 of its deployed ICBMs, deployed submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and deployed heavy bombers, and remove another 138 warheads.
Heritage notes the U.S. has already reduced its deployed warheads by 112 and that destroying an ICBM squadron to comply with New START is unnecessary.
Further cuts, if needed, could be made by removing the missiles and placing the silos in reserve status.
The document says the reductions are necessary to "meet the New START Treaty compliance date by closing an ICBM squadron and eliminating the associated Launch Facilities." But that's not true. New START does not require destruction of the silos.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
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And why isn’t this Front Page news in the MSM?!
Its not evidence, certainly, but in the documentary 2016 dinesh dsouza intimated his suspicion that a legacy ambition of Obama was unilateral US disarmament.
After the weekend I believe we will he seeing some amazing reports of a diastwr narrowly averted one month ago.
I mean a really huge one that only SOUNDS crazy.
“to meet New START’s limits.”
WHO RATIFIED that TREATY??????
Anybody still believe Obama is not set on destroying America?
He’s got 3 years left and nothing to lose.
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Look at the article again and notice that the issue originates at the NeoCon publication, Washington Free Beacon. Also notice how the article tries to link two separate things, the missile shield(2012) and START(2010)
The treaty covers warheads and delivery systems. So technically, it doesn't cover the silos. Why pay to maintain the silos? They will never be used again. The next START will further lower warheads and delivery systems.
We need Curtis LeMay back, or at least someone like him. I frankly don’t care if we have 30000 warheads again. Now we have a smaller standing army, navy and air force to what we had 40 years ago when we had a huge nuclear deterrent. Where is the deterrent now. BTW, the deterrent is just to stop an attack, it under pins our entire military posture and by extention our foreign policy. Does anyone except the simpleton Kenyan think that anyone cares if we rant and rave and waive our arms before the UN about something? No, they only care if they know that if it is an attack on our nation or national interests, we have, er had, the power to obliterate them. As someone said long ago, money (power) talks and BS walks.
More Obama scorched earth. The people WILL be punished for rejecting ObamaCare.
Where is the deterrent now?
$17 trillion in debt
20 million illegal aliens
40 million on food stamps
Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga
.... Who would want to assume control of this mess?
But I agree, as an old SAC trained killer, it seems to me that we’ve pissed it away.
Yup we did. It was the “peace dividend”. This one was a dividend paid with borrowed funds!
See today in the Kenyan’s eyes, we were a force for ill will in the world because we were head and shoulders more powerful, militarily and economically, then other countries. He has taken down both so now we are removed from the playing field.
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Watching the destruction of our freedom, our Constitution, and our future, ya think?
Maybe that’s one of the things he told his liberal journalist lackeys in their meeting. Cover for me on obamacare AND the nuke deal.
Juan Williams should be fired from Fox. He used to spout the party line as expected. Now it’s obvious he’ll be saying what the white house tells him to say. Fox should not give obama a platform.
predictable
I know I don’t post here much anymore/lately — I’ve started reading other, non-political sites much of the time, due to trolls, and the concentrated utter incompetence / backstabbing of the GOPe, I’ve gotten discouraged.
But I still lurk here upon a time.
Thanks for remembering me, and including me in your *PING*s.
I *do* appreciate it.
g_w
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