Palin Against Missile Defense Budget Cuts Sends Letter to Secretary of Defense

April 9, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin has urged the Secretary of Defense not to reduce the Missile Defense Agency’s budget. In a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Governor Palin outlined her concerns about the proposed $1.4 billion in budget cuts to the agency.

“Your announcement of a proposed $1.4 billion reduction of the Missile Defense Agency’s budget is not the best decision for today’s threat environment. Alaska is committed to supporting continued missile defense implementation at Fort Greely and the development of future technology through our Kodiak Launch Complex, which has access to the Gulf of Alaska Maritime Exercise Area. This unique training space offers a safe and secure location to further develop and test future missile intercept technologies in conjunction with the latest sea-based and land-based radar.

“I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program. It has the clear potential of impacting Alaska, Hawaii, and possibly the West Coast, with a nuclear-armed warhead. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect our global missile defense shield.”

I bet governor Palin could really throw a monkey wrench into Gates machine by offering for the State of Alaska to fund part of the missile defenses, among other things.

“The federal government has created a situation of such dire economic crisis and distress, and profound national debt, that it can no longer provide an adequate military defense for the United States.

“As such, the federal government of the United States has effectively bankrupted our nation for the foreseeable future. Today, the majority of the individual States have resolved that this situation cannot continue, that the federal government must retreat to within its limited constitutional bounds, and discontinue its unchecked and unprincipled extravagance and largesse to corporations and individuals.”

“Unaware or indifferent to the threats posed by our enemies who seek to attack our nation with ballistic missiles, the unprincipled actions of a government that has seized over 90% of the State of Alaska from its people, forces our State to at least take some measures to defend itself in their absence or unwillingness to provide for the common defense.”

“We solicit agreements with other States that wish to join with Alaska in defending our nation from unprovoked attack by unbalanced tyrants and murderous regimes, and ask that the federal government at least not utterly surrender our nation to foreign regimes or corrupt internationalist schemes, by nefarious treaty or other secret agreement, until the individual States may choose to convene a constitutional convention to return our nation to a limited and constitutional form of national government.”

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