Posted on 01/06/2012 7:34:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
WASHINGTON (AP) Looking beyond the wars he inherited, President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military. He vowed to preserve U.S. pre-eminence even as the Army and Marine Corps shed troops and the administration considers reducing its arsenal of nuclear weapons.
In a presentation at the Pentagon, Obama said the U.S. is "turning a page" after having killed Osama bin Laden, withdrawn troops from Iraq and begun to wind down the war in Afghanistan. He outlined a vision for the future that some Republican lawmakers quickly dubbed wrong-headed.
"Our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority," Obama said with Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, at his side.
The economy is more likely to determine Obama's re-election fate than national security. To keep his promises to shrink the deficit and to prove he is serious about fiscal management to voters wary of enormous government spending, Obama must show the oft-protected Pentagon is not exempt.
The political danger, though, is that his opponents will use any slashing of spending to paint the president as weak on security.
Both Panetta and Dempsey said they anticipate heavy criticism of their new strategy, which was begun last spring by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates after Obama called for defense spending cuts. The Pentagon now faces at least $487 billion in cuts in planned defense spending over 10 years.
The criticism from Republicans came quickly.
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, issued a statement saying, "This is a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America." He called it a "retreat from the world in the guise of a new strategy."
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The Messiah’s ideas may be great in his own mind but they don’t take into account that a new Mao dze Tung, a new Osama bin Laden, a new Ho Chi Minh, a new Hitler, a new Stalin, a new Attila, etc. is born every ten years or so. Evil has always existed and evil exists now (witness Obama) and evil will exist in the future. Some country in this world needs to be prepared; for better or for worse, we caught the ball.
He is forming his SA Brownshirts-—it is to thin out the Christians and install all the homosexuals—Just keep the men who “think” like he does....—people like in Hitler’s closest circle-—all sexual perverts who had no qualms about doing horrific acts on their own citizens, since they have no morality and demean bodies daily.
Difference between our military vs. the Germans and Russians was the Christian Paradigm-—the Judeo/Christian Ethics that was professed by most of our military-—Zero is destroying the Christian Ethics-—forcing the immorality of atheists/pagans/muslims/occultists-—people with no Christian morality.
NOTHING can equate to Judeo/Christian Ethics. All history proves that.
The horrors that atheist/occult/muslim militaries did to human beings EVEN THEIR OWN CITIZENS is legion. He is preparing our military to turn on their own citizens. Only an immoral army does that.
http://www.thepinkswastika.com/5294/index.html
Who better than from among the millions of ILLEGAL aliens? The Hispanic-American (that darn hyphen keeps slipping) organizations and media could easily rally hundreds of thousands to sign up for good paying, secure jobs in Obama's army. Maybe that is why Obama is truckling down to the Hispanic-American (darn it!) groups.
But can ILLEGAL aliens be employed in federal civil service? Not really. But we have discovered that trivia like needing Congressional action matters not a whit in Obamamerica and Obama's servile, complaisant undistinguished media (SCUM).
Its been the goal of the left all along; destroy the military and take the money saved and dump it into social programs.>>
Its been the goal of the left all along; destroy the military and take the money saved and use it to buy votes
ok that works to.
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Zer0's train wreck rolls on (as planned).
Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 379 days as of January 7, 2012.
TSA is a great example of the building of a civilian military force.
Fact—We cut our military and it invites war. Look at history from the time of Jefferson when he cut the navy—we get involved in a war with the Tripoli Pirates. We cut our army and we get a Civil War—same with WWI and WW II. Never a wise policy. Look to see a 3rd World War looming on the horizon.
He needs to free up cash for his “Civilian National Security Force”.
You didn’t think he forgot did you? The one that needs to be “Just as strong, just as powerful,just as well funded.”
Bfl
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