Posted on 03/28/2014 6:04:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
Defense Spending: Two more weapons systems, including the Navy's premier attack missile, have been targeted for elimination by the administration years before their usefulness ends or replacements are ready.
How ironic that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama used the Tomahawk missile he now seeks to scrap as his weapon of choice when on March 19, 2011, he launched Operation Odyssey Dawn and fired 112 Tomahawks at Libyan targets to enforce a U.N.-backed no fly-zone in support of Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi.
Future presidents will not be able to carry such a big stick. Along with the Hellfire air-to-ground attack missile, the Tomahawk is considered by the administration to be one of those Cold War weapons no longer needed.
Under Obama's budget proposals, the Navy, which as recently as last year had plans to buy 980 more Tomahawks, the primary cruise missile used throughout the fleet, will see purchases drop from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.
The U.S. used 220 Tomahawks in the fight with Libya, according to the Washington Free Beacon. With the States using about 100 Tomahawks annually, our inventory will be depleted around 2018. No future purchases are planned, and no replacement is in the pipeline.
"It doesn't make sense," Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower, told the Free Beacon. The move, he said, is "like running a white flag up on a very tall flagpole and saying, 'We are ready to be walked on.'"
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BS...You would have voted for him if he was just an idiot?
Lest we forget, Lord Obama curtailed improving our Nuclear Arsenal as soon as he blew into town.
No upgrades, no innovation, no nothing...
Of course our Enemies did the same with their Nuclear Arsenals because Obama and Hillary used their “reset” button. /s
only morons endorse idiots and enemies into positions of power over them
We’re on the same page.
It was Obama who decided NOT to honor the agreements of the United States...
Ditto on the EVIL!!! The boy king has always signaled his intent to dismantle the U.S. brick by brick. Nothing he does is without design ... he is not brilliant, far from it, cagey like a sewer rat and just as diseased. All you need to look at is the way the military is being systematically purged of command officers with actual combat experience. Stalin did the same thing ... cost them dearly when they attacked the Finns. The Finns are a tough, resilient people and were fighting for their homeland ... but they crushed the far better armed Russkies mostly because of inexperienced Russian officers. Obama seems to be as crazy as Stalin and just as evil ... but I’ll bet Chris Matthews still gets a thrill up his leg ... scary!
That's what the Prez says !
I don't know what we would have done without him..
If you don't believe him , .. then ask him again !!
“Hell, we apparently never needed anyone but the Prez.”
We needed an eligible citizen who loves and is loyal to this country, our culture and religion and our Constitution to be president.
We needed a press that loves the Constitution and this country which would be objective and unwilling to be bribed.
We needed citizens who were educated, who love this country, capitalism, and who knew history.
We needed a Senate Judiciary Committee who vetted all candidates instead of just John McCain. Sen. Coburn was the leading Repub on that committee, and he failed to do his job.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities should have been continued long after the war and still be active because as we see in the DOJ and Crimea, the commies never gave up.
The Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, and the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers) should have been prosecuted fully. Ayers got away with murder.
Like you, I am absolutely convinced that Obama deliberately seeks the destruction of the USA. HE IS EVIL.
When I explained that in the beginning, people refused to believe our president would do that. Even the local newspaper refused to publish my latest letter and military retirees attacked the idea. Now, after his lies on health care (gun control, gay marriage, etc.) many are beginning to realize the president is not on our side. It may be too late, and we may not recover from being given over to our domestic and international enemies.
“HE IS EVIL.”
I created this blog to chronicle the disgust I have for this misleader. http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com
Folks should check out “ garjog’s “ blog ... a nice accumulation of links to myriad articles on the Boy King ... good work ... thanks. Adding to the thousands of links I already have makes my head hurt ... as it is I have bruises all over my body for pinching myself constantly since 2008 hoping that maybe I’m just having a really long nightmare. Please tell me that I am really asleep and not actually typing!!! Americans couldn’t be so stupid as to vote for their own destruction could they???!!!
Welcome to Obamaville.
Not to mention loathe and despise.
Nice ...
Added to my bookmarks!
interesting, thanks for the link,
OBAMALATERAL DISARMAMENT PING
Thanks for the ping.
I don’t believe for a second that Obama’s some idealistic liberal with a big heart. He’s disarming the country alright - but not because he’s an idiot.
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