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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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To: raptor22

Buy ATK stock.


21 posted on 09/24/2014 9:18:45 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: raptor22

Reality just slapped him up side the head.

Luckily, he had a coffee cup in his hand and was saluting at the time.


22 posted on 09/24/2014 9:21:19 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: jazusamo

need to build more! Why not use dumb bombs? Drop them from a B-52! Lots of them! Round the clock bombings!


23 posted on 09/24/2014 9:43:15 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: a fool in paradise

sure seems like it


24 posted on 09/25/2014 12:09:45 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: raptor22

And still, no native Americans protesting those insulting Tomahawks.


25 posted on 09/25/2014 5:44:38 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

That’d work as well as get the attention of the barbarians.


26 posted on 09/25/2014 8:21:33 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: raptor22

Bring back Phoenix!


27 posted on 09/25/2014 8:22:13 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


28 posted on 09/25/2014 2:45:23 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


29 posted on 09/25/2014 5:20:07 PM PDT by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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To: raptor22

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.


30 posted on 09/25/2014 5:59:34 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
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!"

I believe that was also the premise for an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

31 posted on 09/25/2014 6:04:14 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: raptor22

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.


32 posted on 09/25/2014 6:07:35 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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