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Obama to propose building of new icebreakers to protect US interests in Arctic
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Posted on 09/05/2015 9:52:19 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland

"President Obama will ask Congress Tuesday to speed up the construction of new icebreaker ships in order to protect U.S. interests and resources in the Arctic, amid growing concern that the U.S. has ceded influence to Russia in the strategic waters."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arctic; globullwarmingirony; icebreaker
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Sounds like we are way behind in having capability in the Arctic. The title indicates Obama is pushing to get these built; hard to believe he would make a decision that is in our best interest however. Probably more to the story.
1 posted on 09/05/2015 9:52:19 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Given recent events Obama wants to make certain China’s new blue water fleet has access to Alaska’s entire coast all year long.


2 posted on 09/05/2015 9:53:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Icebreakers?

For what?


3 posted on 09/05/2015 9:54:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

This from a president who claims the ice is melting. Ironic.


4 posted on 09/05/2015 9:54:30 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Why is he ordering new ice breakers when he says there’s no ice to break there soon?


5 posted on 09/05/2015 9:54:49 AM PDT by AU72
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To: HereInTheHeartland

What is the point - we’ve already lost the war on Global Warming...the ice will be gone as soon as the ships are ready to sail.

...or will it?


6 posted on 09/05/2015 9:54:52 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Icebreakers? But, he’s assured us that global warming has fixed all that.


7 posted on 09/05/2015 9:54:54 AM PDT by LouAvul (Liberalism, the bane of civilization.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I’ll bet that the new icebreakers will not have steel prows fitted for icebreaking but rather hemp woven prows for more environmental friendliness.


8 posted on 09/05/2015 9:55:27 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Surely those icebreakers can be taken off the shelf, maybe even out of mothball-status in the James River, and be ready for sea in a month! /sarc


9 posted on 09/05/2015 9:56:07 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Zero is confessing by his actions that the meltdown of the Arctic is phony.


10 posted on 09/05/2015 9:57:49 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Obama’s just breaking the ice that global warming can’t.


11 posted on 09/05/2015 9:57:55 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Won’t global warming take care of that? We just need kayaks to reach it in a year or two.

What US interests? We are already too powerful and evil. We don’t deserve anything in the arctic.


12 posted on 09/05/2015 9:58:46 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: cripplecreek

Lots of natural resources there. The Soviets (yes I call them that!); have 40. We have 2 .

Sounds like this has been neglected way too long.


13 posted on 09/05/2015 9:58:59 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Going to Planned Parenthood for medical care; would be like going to Auschwitz for medical care.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Meanwhile he is quite comfortable with Chinese ships in the Bering Sea and Russians essentially claiming and patrolling the entire Arctic Ocean.


14 posted on 09/05/2015 10:00:19 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

My question was simply snark directed at the global warming crowd.


15 posted on 09/05/2015 10:01:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I thought Barry said that all of the ice in the Arctic had melted. Why are we going to waste money building icebreakers. We can feed, house and provide lots of “free” healthcare to a lot of illegal alien invaders with that money.


16 posted on 09/05/2015 10:01:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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What the hell interests do we have in the arctic ?

How about cut off food stamps and save SS ?

17 posted on 09/05/2015 10:05:00 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: cripplecreek

“My question was simply snark directed at the global warming crowd.”

Hmmm on second thought; maybe they need to rethink this.
With global warming and ice vanishing; maybe warm water yachts will work after all!


18 posted on 09/05/2015 10:05:25 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Going to Planned Parenthood for medical care; would be like going to Auschwitz for medical care.)
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To: knarf

“What the hell interests do we have in the arctic ?”

Alaska for one! We aren’t Switzerland; we have interests in many places around the world.

We already have to ask the Soviets to take us into space.

Asking them to lead us around the Arctic when needed; isn’t a smart thing for us to be doing.


19 posted on 09/05/2015 10:10:18 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Going to Planned Parenthood for medical care; would be like going to Auschwitz for medical care.)
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They will name the first one after Michelle Obama:

“The USCG Mooching Wide Body”


20 posted on 09/05/2015 10:11:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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