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Sarah Palin: Another “WTF” Obama Foreign Policy Moment
Sarah Palin's Facebook Notes ^ | June 9, 2011 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 06/09/2011 4:37:11 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner

As Governor I fought the Obama Administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled “Giving Away the Farm,” concerning President Obama’s latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.

President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?

We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of “detente,” and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military strength. And a central component of that has always been technological superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?

Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense appropriation bill over this section of the law! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.

Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?

During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? Giving away our missile defense secrets won’t make us safer. What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under “WTF”.

- Sarah Palin


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; democrats; missiledefense; obama; palin; russia; sarahpalin
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

Awwww. Thank you!! Its these little things I havent quite mastered yet :). Yes, the box is a little much. Thats the one thing I cant manage for the kiddos.


41 posted on 06/09/2011 5:59:28 AM PDT by GoCards (RUN SARAH RUN)
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To: SERKIT

Dangit...you beat me to it.

Is Clinton the man behind the curtain in this current administration?

When will Monica Lewinski be visiting the WH.....soon???


42 posted on 06/09/2011 5:59:31 AM PDT by Puckster
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To: demshateGod

Obama’s latest mantra, “Winning The Future.” WTF.

Sort of like, “Kinetic Military Action.” KMA.

And a bit like his scratching his nose with his “bird” finger. [censored] you.

These cannot be accidents.

Way to go! Discard our best, brightest hope because of a misunderstanding on your part. Is Romney your guy?


43 posted on 06/09/2011 6:02:55 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
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To: GoCards

I hate the chat feature! I just caught my brother chatting with a girl he wasn’t supposed to talk to because she told the school she was “afraid of him”; (yet called him that night! The conversation between her mom and my mom was not pleasant, to say the least. lol). My mom was monitoring his FB posts, but didn’t realize the chat feature was there because she never uses it. It’s a dangerous world out there for kiddos.


44 posted on 06/09/2011 6:04:01 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (A kid like Prescott & still pro-life all the days of his life. President Reagan was truly a saint!)
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To: Travis McGee

Of course it is! IMO, Bill Clinton should have been tried and executed for transferring all our nuclear technology to the Chinese. There never is any justice in this life, it seems. Bob


45 posted on 06/09/2011 6:05:22 AM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

We ain´t seen nothing from this islamist pigdog yet.


46 posted on 06/09/2011 6:10:09 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: demshateGod

It’s a take on the Punk’s “Win the Future” slogan. I hope that our voters will not be so prissy that they will reject America’s brightest light b/c of a “WTF” remark! Bob


47 posted on 06/09/2011 6:10:44 AM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: hal ogen
squishy RINOs, LIBs, DIMs, and other asshats are qualified.

Sounds like you're in there somewhere.

48 posted on 06/09/2011 6:11:14 AM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: onedoug

Wait until we see his list of pardons!


49 posted on 06/09/2011 6:11:43 AM PDT by alstewartfan (When you're fresh out of lawyers, you don't know how good it's gonna feel! Al Stewart)
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To: demshateGod
Classy. She’s now back in the mix with the people I’ll probably never vote for.

be sure to vote for someone nice then.

50 posted on 06/09/2011 6:14:40 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Progressive Technology Transfer alerts:
1) Clinton allows missile targeting transfers to China.
2) Obama allows missile defense teansfer to Rissia.

With Presidents like this, we have no secrets.


51 posted on 06/09/2011 6:16:04 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Progressive Technology Transfer alerts:
1) Clinton allows missile targeting transfer to China.
2) Obama allows missile defense transfer to Russia.

With Presidents like this, we have no secrets.


52 posted on 06/09/2011 6:17:08 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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To: TheOldLady
Sort of like, “Kinetic Military Action.” KMA.

There's also Barack Obama: BO.
53 posted on 06/09/2011 6:17:48 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Palin/Demint 2012


54 posted on 06/09/2011 6:21:20 AM PDT by DFG (1 useless man is called a disgrace, 2 are called a law firm, 3 or more are called Congress)
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To: GoCards

RE: The little chat box on facebook. Click on it, click on options, and then click on ‘go offline’. This will hide you from everyone else knowing that you’re ‘online’, and you won’t get anyone popping up to ‘chat’. Turned this off awhile ago...always froze up my poor old computer when anyone wanted to chat.


55 posted on 06/09/2011 6:23:08 AM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: alstewartfan
Wait until we see his list of pardons!

You certainly brought up a very good point with that post.

56 posted on 06/09/2011 6:23:18 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (zero hates Texas and we hate him back. He ain't my president either.)
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To: Travis McGee; MestaMachine; onyx
http://images.sodahead.com/blogs/000197881/blogs_palin_2012_2547_174087_poll_xlarge.jpeg

Like I told onyx last night

For the good of our country, or it will no longer be our country, we Cannot survive as a Union, Four More Years of Ubama, we just can't, its not my opinion, its not what I want to happen, we just won't.

We need a real leader on our side, with all this talk of the Chinese moving to Idaho, Israel going to War, and Civil War here at Home, we can't have putzs like Mitt Romney, Newt or this Rollins fellow (or whoever the clown is Michele just hired for some reason) on our side Mucking things up. Too much is at stake, or your grandchildren will ask you how their uncle died in the 2nd War Between the States, and we will be adopting this song to fit our modern times.

57 posted on 06/09/2011 6:23:49 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
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To: yldstrk
“According to the administration’s position, we no longer have enemies........”

Remember, Obama thinks he is the great equalizer and we are an evil country that needs to be cut down to size. He gave away our nuke secrets and England's and has referred to our returning servicemen as terrorists while terrorizing our own citizens who attempt to travel while giving a pass to muslim men under 30. We may not have a country left when he decides to pay off our debtors by turning over sovereign land.

58 posted on 06/09/2011 6:25:46 AM PDT by Rocketwolf68 (Bring back the crusades)
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To: KC_Lion
PREFECT©

59 posted on 06/09/2011 6:34:03 AM PDT by onyx (If you truly like and support Sarah Palin and want on her BUSY Ping List, let me know!)
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To: TheOldLady
Obama’s latest mantra, “Winning The Future.” WTF.

Sort of like, “Kinetic Military Action.” KMA.

And don't forget Dopey Joe Biden's "Seize the Future" (STFU)

60 posted on 06/09/2011 6:35:12 AM PDT by VRWCmember (_!_)
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