Posted on 09/24/2014 6:20:01 PM PDT by raptor22
National Defense: The president launches attacks on the Islamic State with two weapons systems that were targeted for elimination by the administration years before their usefulness ended or any replacements were ready.
With the decision to launch air and missile strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, in addition to ongoing strikes in Iraq in what is said to be the start of a long and sustained campaign to "degrade and destroy" the terrorist group, President Obama has stumbled upon a revelation:
The military whose budgets he's slashed and weapons systems he opposed is suddenly quite useful.
As the Washington Post reported, the first strikes Monday night included a volley of 47 Tomahawk cruise missiles from two warships, the guided missile destroyer Arleigh Burke and the guided missile cruiser Philippine Sea. They are part of the George H.W. Bush carrier battle group led by the aircraft carrier of the same name.
The problem, as we reported back in March, is that the Tomahawk was slated by Obama to be phased out of the Navy's inventory, with no timely replacement ready. Under his 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, would see purchases drop from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.
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Buy ATK stock.
Reality just slapped him up side the head.
Luckily, he had a coffee cup in his hand and was saluting at the time.
need to build more! Why not use dumb bombs? Drop them from a B-52! Lots of them! Round the clock bombings!
sure seems like it
And still, no native Americans protesting those insulting Tomahawks.
That’d work as well as get the attention of the barbarians.
Bring back Phoenix!
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Bingo! Now we have to ask why? He obviously wants someone to take the interests and ultimately the country itself out. The man has surrounded himself around the diabolical.
Tomahawk Missiles ?
Oh... ahh... isn’t that racist ? The government needs to change the name on those missiles right away. The Redskins are getting restless.
I believe that was also the premise for an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
The number will then drop to zero in 2016.
I would think the number would rise to 2000 in 2016,
if not more. We will need that many by then.
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