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Obama moving to decontrol U.S. defense goods exports
reuters ^ | 8/29/10 | Doug Palmer

Posted on 08/29/2010 10:07:26 PM PDT by Nachum

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will outline steps his administration is taking to revamp U.S. export restrictions on defense and high-tech goods, which is expected to lead to thousands of less sensitive items being decontrolled, senior administration officials said.

"We've done this fundamentally for national security reasons so that we can ... focus our resources on protecting the most critical technologies," one of the senior officials told reporters at a briefing.

The initiative, which already has been one year in the making, responds to frustration felt by U.S. defense and high-tech companies, who say export controls that date to the Cold War cost them billions of dollars in lost sales.

U.S. allies also complain they often face long waits to get spare parts for U.S.-made weapons systems because of licensing requirements as rigorous as for the weapons themselves.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: decontrol; defense; exports; obama; treason; treasonbydnc; treasonbyobama
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1 posted on 08/29/2010 10:07:31 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 08/29/2010 10:08:06 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

We´d better stop this guy in November, if we´re not totally sold-out buy then.


3 posted on 08/29/2010 10:12:30 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

It is one minute to midnight.


4 posted on 08/29/2010 10:13:45 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Two things are for certain:

1. This is not being done to help out the US defense industry in support of their economy, or the US economy at large.
2. This is not being done for the sake of frustrated allies looking for spare parts.

It is being done to further weaken our lead in the technology that keeps us safe... it's the same reason we are unilaterally reducing our nuclear arms stockpiles: he is neutering our country, and thus empowering and enticing all of our enemies, both foreign and domestic. We will be left vulnerable -- exactly the way he wants us. And I bet this doesn't stop here, either.

5 posted on 08/29/2010 10:20:47 PM PDT by alancarp (Please don't tell Obama what comes after "trillion")
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To: alancarp

“Two things are for certain:
1. This is not being done to help out the US defense industry in support of their economy, or the US economy at large.
2. This is not being done for the sake of frustrated allies looking for spare parts.

It is being done to further weaken our lead in the technology that keeps us safe... it’s the same reason we are unilaterally reducing our nuclear arms stockpiles: he is neutering our country, and thus empowering and enticing all of our enemies, both foreign and domestic. We will be left vulnerable — exactly the way he wants us. And I bet this doesn’t stop here, either. “


I believe you are correct. The operational verb here is TREASON!
Not a peep from Corporate Media either!


6 posted on 08/29/2010 10:47:39 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Nachum

Reason number 617,386 why Liberal Free Trade Globalism is never a good idea....things are traded that harm National Security

Too many will whine about Obama doing this...yet will still push Free Trade Globalism. You cannot have your Communism and eat it, too


7 posted on 08/29/2010 10:53:40 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Obama runs things like a Communist Chinese traffic jam)
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To: Nachum
I'm sure that Obama’s Administration thought this one through as well as it did the Stimulus Bill. (rolling eyes)
8 posted on 08/29/2010 11:18:10 PM PDT by Chgogal (American Mugabe, get your arse out of my bank, my car, my doctor's office & my elec. utility.)
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To: Nachum

“We’re planning to get rid of our fence and the dogs so that we can concentrate on keeping our burglar alarms working.”


9 posted on 08/29/2010 11:18:58 PM PDT by webheart (I am a Sarah fan.)
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To: Nachum

The faster Obama puts all his plans in place...


10 posted on 08/29/2010 11:29:19 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Nachum

We have been selling Arabs tens of billions of $ of top notch military equipment already. In down times everyone is selling: the French to the Russians, us to Arabs, the Russians and the Chinese to everyone.


11 posted on 08/29/2010 11:51:43 PM PDT by mainsail that ("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: Nachum

12:59:59 or 23:59:59 if you will


12 posted on 08/29/2010 11:56:48 PM PDT by correctthought ("Communism is a temporary setback, on the road to freedom" - Liberty Prime)
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To: Nachum

lol Give O the money behind close doors.


13 posted on 08/30/2010 1:36:34 AM PDT by dalebert (true hillbilly)
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To: Nachum

This jerk wants to control absolutely everything else, but he wants to loosen controls and sell our military items to foreign countries? Just like selling the rope to hang ourselves. Another item to prove that Barry hates the USA.


14 posted on 08/30/2010 3:43:34 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Nachum

Equipping America’s future enemies, one item at a time.


15 posted on 08/30/2010 4:32:44 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum

IOW they can’t keep up with monitoring all this stuff so they are changing the definition of what is “sensitive.”


16 posted on 08/30/2010 4:36:35 AM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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