The ONE is going to BUILD THE MILITARY! Armed forces in battle are sons and fathers and mothers.
He’s got a retired general bot on now saying the ONE can approach this rationally and will be a great President!
No mention of his “Civil Security Force” funded and supplied equal to the military.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/28/the-disarming-democrats/
The Disarming Democrats
hotair.com ^ | October 28, 2008 | Ed Morrissey
The Wall Street Journal warns of one clear consequence in electing a Democratic President to match with a Congress controlled by fellow Democrats — disarmament. The WSJ looks at the inconsistencies of both Obama and Joe Biden on defense plans, and warns that the US could be looking at a drastic reduction in military readiness during a time of war:
When it comes to defense, there are two Barack Obamas in this race. There is the candidate who insists, as he did last year in an article in Foreign Affairs, that "a strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace"; pledges to increase the size of our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines while providing them with "first-rate equipment, armor, incentives and training"; and seems to be as gung-ho for a surge in Afghanistan as he was opposed to the one in Iraq.
And then there is the candidate who early this year recorded an ad for Caucus for Priorities, a far-left outfit that wants to cut 15% of the Pentagon's budget in favor of "education, healthcare, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger [and] deficit reduction."
"Thanks so much for the Caucus for Priorities for the great work you've been doing," says Mr. Obama in the ad, before promising to "cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending . . . slow our development of future combat systems . . . not develop new nuclear weapons."
Joe Biden also cut an ad for the group that was even more emphatic: "I'll tell you what we cannot afford . . . a trillion-dollar commitment to 'Star Wars,' new nuclear weapons, a thousand-ship Navy, the F-22 Raptor."
None of this should surprise anyone, especially after recalling this Obama spot from early in the primaries:
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We neglected our military in the 1990s when we didn't have a war to fight, or at least one we acknowledged. That neglect handicapped us in fighting the war on terror, which is still ongoing. Now Obama and the Democrats want to replay the disarmament and neglect of the 1990s in the middle of a war. How exactly will that help make America more secure?