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Obama Goes To War With Weapons He Scrapped (Raptors, Tomahawks)
Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 24, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

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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KEYWORDS: appeasement; disarmament; f22; f22raptor; ibd; ibddefense; obamaisis; obamalateral; savetheraptor; tomahawk; tomahawks
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1 posted on 09/24/2014 6:20:01 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


2 posted on 09/24/2014 6:20:25 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

The military whose budgets he’s slashed and weapons systems he opposed is suddenly quite useful.

Have to “save” the Senate after all....


3 posted on 09/24/2014 6:25:43 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: raptor22

The pathetic CINC cuts weapons systems so he can use the money for social welfare programs instead of his primary responsibility of the defense of the nation until he’s backed into a corner.

We have a juvenile in the WH.


4 posted on 09/24/2014 6:28:11 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

No, we have a muslim in the White House, who is also a traitor.


5 posted on 09/24/2014 6:29:41 PM PDT by sport
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To: raptor22

That’s a reoccurring Liberal problem. They always want to do away with the weapons and capabilities. But they don’t want to rein in their global ambitions.


6 posted on 09/24/2014 6:30:46 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: sport

Yep, that too.


7 posted on 09/24/2014 6:32:49 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: raptor22
He's using them up as best he can.

It's like the neighbor who is allowed into your home after the SHTF -- and he proposes a massive party with half the supplies you've put aside in preparation for a major disaster. "Dude! Let's party!"

8 posted on 09/24/2014 6:33:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: raptor22

The GOPe in McCornhole and Bonor aided and abetted.


9 posted on 09/24/2014 6:37:11 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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10 posted on 09/24/2014 6:38:37 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: raptor22
The military whose budgets he's slashed and weapons systems he opposed is suddenly quite useful.

Maybe he had an epiphany, and decided he could use those weapons on American civilians, so he will keep them.

11 posted on 09/24/2014 6:58:09 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: raptor22

WTF does “degrade” mean ?


12 posted on 09/24/2014 7:16:09 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: raptor22

The first Opi Taylor president.

Sort for the insult Mayberry.


13 posted on 09/24/2014 7:16:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well, things get old, ifn ydon’t usem up. We were poping Korea vintage 81s out of 2 tubes, most nights all night long “interdiction”. They could only thump charlie if they landed on him or he stumbled on their tail-fins protruding from their impact point. Shoot the dam tomahawks things and mix up a new batch.

Now about the vintage but thoroughly appropriate close order support A-10, Older best is better in any slug fest.

R.


14 posted on 09/24/2014 7:23:43 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: raptor22

since he decided to bomb late at night when no one was in the buildings it seem like he just wanted to use up inventory. If he decides to start sending nukes off to Pluto then we’ll know that’s true


15 posted on 09/24/2014 7:24:51 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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All that money for a lot of explosions in the sand to watch, and ONLY 50 GUYS????????

What kind of monetary return is that???

(oh yeah, this guy doesn’t know how to save money, just spend it)


16 posted on 09/24/2014 7:35:40 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


17 posted on 09/24/2014 7:42:35 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: RightGeek

Can someone be a traitor to a country that he was never a citizen of?

Does Virginia v. John Brown apply in this case?


18 posted on 09/24/2014 8:08:12 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: raptor22
Hmm go figure

And didn't I read somewhere where the tired old out-dated A-10 Warthog was going to be resurrected as well??


19 posted on 09/24/2014 8:53:08 PM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: raptor22; GeronL

He wants to take our stockpile down to ZERO.


20 posted on 09/24/2014 9:09:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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