Posted on 03/06/2008 12:01:43 PM PST by Eye On The Left
This is a matter of national security which should concern every normal American.
These are Barack Obama's own statements below:
"First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals."
Source: Barack Obama campaign ad:
NOTE: this is the ORIGINAL youtube Obama ad. Not the poor quality copy that is circulating the internet. This one (the good one) is titled "Obama-Caucus4Priorities". Another making the rounds is titled "In 52 Seconds Why Obama Cannot Win the General Election". However, the picture quality is terrible.
Youtube/BarackObamaDotCom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE
You can also find it at this site through a search for "Obama-Caucus4Priorities" (use the lower search feature):
http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
From "45 Goals":
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"??
Hey Barack, we just shot down a failed satellite travelling thousands of miles an hour!
U.S. Dept of Defense video of shootdown:
2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test:
"The 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test was conducted by China on January 11, 2007. A Chinese weather satellite — the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg[1] — was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction[2] (see Head-on engagement). It was launched with a multistage solid-fuel missile from Xichang Satellite Launch Center or nearby."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test
March 6, 2008
(New) Pentagon Report: China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
posted: 6 March 2008
GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.
Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.
Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."
Hedging against the unknown
Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2008 is an annual report to Congress prepared by the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
While drafted by the Department of Defense, the report is the U.S. government's collective and unified view on Chinese military power, said David Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in a March 3 Pentagon briefing on the just-issued report. The assessment, he said, has been vetted and cleared across interagency lines, including the White House, the National Security Council, the intelligence community, and other agencies.
The wide-ranging report is founded on the premise that China not only is a rising international economic power in the community of nations, but also is a rising military power with new and emerging capabilities that have global implications.
"The lack of transparency in China's military and security affairs poses risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation. This situation will naturally and understandably lead to hedging against the unknown," the report states.
Counterspace
In the space arena, the report cites the unannounced January 2007 ASAT test as demonstrating the ability of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to attack spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
"The test raised concern among many nations, and the resulting debris cloud put at risk the assets of all space faring nations, and posed a danger to human space flight," the report says.
"In the counterspace area, the Chinese test of an anti-satellite system, a little over a year ago, was something that really brought home, in a very dramatic way, the capabilities that China has been developing...not that we weren't aware of those developments beforehand," Sedney noted in this week's Pentagon briefing.
"But when you see something actually used, then it certainly attracts your attention. Because you've seen that, not only are they working on it, but they've done it ... they've acquired that capability," Sedney told reporters.
Work in progress
The newly issued assessment by the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense points to other Chinese space developments:
China is developing the Long March 5, an improved heavy-lift rocket that will be able to lift larger reconnaissance satellites into low- earth orbit or communications satellites into geosynchronous orbits by 2012, and is constructing a new satellite launch complex on Hainan Island.
The PLA has developed a variety of kinetic and non-kinetic weapons and jammers to degrade or deny an adversary's ability to use space- based platforms.
China is researching and deploying capabilities intended to disrupt satellite operations or functionality without inflicting physical damage. The PLA is also exploring satellite jammers, kinetic energy weapons, high-powered lasers, high-powered microwave weapons, particle beam weapons, and electromagnetic pulse weapons for counterspace application.
China is deploying advanced imagery, reconnaissance, and Earth resource systems with military applications. Examples include the Ziyuan-2 series, the Yaogan-1 and -2, the Haiyang-1B, the CBERS-1 and -2 satellites, and the Huanjing disaster/environmental monitoring satellite constellation.
China has established dedicated small satellite design and production facilities, and is developing microsatellites — weighing less than 200 pounds (100 kilograms) — for remote sensing, and networks of imagery and radar satellites. These developments could allow for a rapid reconstitution or expansion of China's satellite force in the event of any disruption in coverage, given an adequate supply of boosters. However, Beijing's effort to develop small, rapid-reaction space launch vehicles appears to be currently stalled.
Press reports indicate China will perform its first space walk later this year, and carry out rendezvous and docking in 2009-2012. China's goal is to have a manned space station and conduct a lunar landing, both by 2020.
Citing the requirements of its manned and lunar space programs, China is improving its ability to track and identify satellites - a prerequisite for effective, precise counterspace operations.
Hindering policy makers
In reviewing the just issued report on China, the focus on space has been reinforced, said Theresa Hitchens, Director of the Center for Defense Information (CDI) in Washington, D.C. The organization is active in analyzing various components of U.S. national security, international security and defense policy.
The space focus in the report is not surprising, Hitchens said, given the ASAT test by China in January 2007. "However, some of the focus seems odd. For example, there is a lot of language about [China's] manned space program. That is somewhat baffling because the expert opinion is that a manned space program is a very inefficient and inconvenient way to build up military space capabilities; and much of the work on manned space is simply not transferable," she told SPACE.com.
Hitchens said that while China may be researching high power microwaves and "particle beam" weapons, as noted in the report, "there is no evidence that these capabilities are near-term for anyone, especially the Chinese who are — despite concerns in the U.S. — still several decades behind the United States in space capabilities."
There is a slight aura of "very worst case scenario" in the report, Hitchens concluded, "which actually can hinder policymakers rather than help."
To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], go to:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf
Pentagon Report: China's Growing Military Space Power
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080305-china-2008-report.html
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When are they going to start doing that?
Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
I think he will. The charge that Romney supported a deadline for withdrawing the troops was false and asinine but McCain stood there and made it when he had to to win a primary. Obama is giving him so much materials that he won't have to just make things up this time. I think once McCain gets brutalized by his "good friends" in the media, he'll bring out the heavy armor and won't just "turn the other cheek" the way Bush did.
See my tagline; Obama tries his best to get me to eat my words. Frikin Al Gore is a better candidate than this clown.
He thinks that all we have to do to succeed in the world is hold talks with governments that hate our guts.
It is also somewhat childish to think people like Obama do not hate our guts. The guy is "friendly" with a former leader of the weather Underground!
"Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website."[three whole years!]
"Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971."
Read more at:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57231
And from HumanEvents.Com
"Mr. Ayers, who has been described by one supporter as 'friends' with Mr. Obama, openly speaks and writes of his role in the 1974 bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building where Mr. Obama now serves. Mr. Ayers is widely quoted from his reminiscence, which appeared in the New York Times on the infamous Tuesday, September 11, 2001: 'I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.' When asked in that same interview if he would set more bombs today, his response was, 'I don't want to discount the possibility.'"
Read more at:
humanevents.com: The Obama Files
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25166
"I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times profile; "I feel we didn't do enough." In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World [Maoist-communist] revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.
Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt – her signature uniform – Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."
Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:
"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!"
Lots more at, FrontPageMag.com
Allies in War, By David Horowitz:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
"'They're certainly friendly'--Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod" ____________________________
Here's what Wikipedia says:
Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as, "If you seek peace, prepare for war". The source of this adage remains unknown;[1] however, it is universally believed, rightly or wrongly, to be based on a quotation from Roman military writer Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus: Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.[2] The saying is one of many from or based on his work, Epitoma rei militaris, possibly written around the year 390 AD.
More ominously, and very appropo to all the Leftie peaceniks, is this from Wikipedia:
"Everyone knows the adage .... Had Bonaparte been a Latin scholar he would probably have reversed it and said, Si vis bellum para pacem." meaning that if you are planning a war you should put other nations off guard by cultivating peace.
I think Hussein is really just a willing agent of the international pinko peace offensive, ready to move right into the White House. Something to be considered by people who want to abstain, vote third party, or even vote Demonrat to express their resentment toward the GOP.
as a friend of mine at WPAFB said, ‘you simply don’t tell the other side the capabilities of any of your systems!’
What a maroon! What a gull a bull!! -Bugs Bunny
Barack McGovern Kucinich Hussein Obama.
So, what would be the budget for a gross of “white towels”?
O is a fool!
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. - Cicero
FYI..Terry McAwful was on MSNBC this morning..discussion the 3am ad, Hillary, and national security..He said..”when the phone rings at 3am and she hears that the missiles are inbound..”..well, wonder if she’ll thank Stars Wars and Reagan
What a tra la la boob De ay - B Bunny
This is what I’m talking about when it comes to making a choice in the general election. McCain may not be the “perfect” candidate, but the alternative is to give our security away by electing someone who will weaken this nation. I’m not a fan of McCain, but the other option is worse.
Who is Saul Alinsky?
Old time Chicago community organizer. He's been dead for about 40 years now.
Why doesn’t he just say he’ll paint nice big red bulls-eyes on the roofs of our major buildings. Same effect.
To call Obama a rank amateur would be doing a disservice to rank amateurs.
read an article earlier this week that says the ‘Bugs Bunny’ candidate always wins.
John McCain can be a funny guy. Hope he uses his humor ‘attacks’ before it’s too late like Dole did!
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