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1 posted on 01/07/2017 2:41:48 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

What’s nuclear capable? What’s ballistic?


2 posted on 01/07/2017 2:47:51 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: elhombrelibre

President Obama’s Missile Defense Policy: A Misguided Legacy

By Michaela Dodge
Sept 2016

As the ballistic missile threat continues to grow around the world, ballistic missile defense programs remain a quintessential feature of the U.S. national security posture. President Obama’s missile defense policy shifts and program cancellations cost the nation precious time and capabilities at a time when adversaries’ ballistic missile programs are becoming more sophisticated.

The new President in 2017 must avoid missile defense policy confusion, fund missile defense programs adequately, and deploy a comprehensive layered missile defense architecture, including interceptors in space. Heritage Foundation missile defense policy expert Michaela Dodge details the most vital steps for a 21st-century missile defense to protect Americans from a very real threat. ..."

Much more at link...

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/09/president-obamas-missile-defense-policy-a-misguided-legacy

or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20170107200441/http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/09/president-obamas-missile-defense-policy-a-misguided-legacy

13 posted on 01/07/2017 3:29:39 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: elhombrelibre
From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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14 posted on 01/07/2017 3:30:19 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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Wow nuke capable missiles. They are really pulling out the theatrics now. I assume they had nuke capable cruise missiles nearby recently too. No one mentioned that. What would be the use for them in Syria. Nuke turkey? Greece? Aleppo? IMO another anti ruskie piece designed to fan the flames.


16 posted on 01/07/2017 4:00:59 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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So .. I guess Sadaam did manage to get his chemical stuff into Syria before we attacked Iraq ..??

There were plenty of rumors about the sight of huge convoys of trucks traveling from Iraq into Syria .. right before we hit Iraq.


17 posted on 01/07/2017 4:06:56 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: elhombrelibre

and this is a bad thing ?


23 posted on 01/07/2017 4:56:02 PM PST by vooch
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To: elhombrelibre

If Israel isn’t airing it’s concerns in public, I suspect we can safely say this is fake news.

More B.S. from the ‘military level strike’ champions, pounding the drums of war over nothing at all.


25 posted on 01/07/2017 5:31:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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I don't know if this is particularly significant. The Iskander is a very effective conventional arm, claims 7 yard accuracy out to 500 km, and can carry multiple warheads. Not sure "nuclear capable" is an issue, doubt Russia is introducing warheads to Syria. Control, which I assume is Russia, is an issue. Were they transferred to Assad, I suspect Israel would react. Besides, I'm sure they target Russia anyway.

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26 posted on 01/07/2017 5:43:01 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: elhombrelibre
The Russians also have dozens of nuclear armed MIRVed missiles with ten times that range off our coasts all the time.

Nuclear capable doesn't mean much since every Tomahawk is in theory nuclear capable as well and all Burke class destroyers have them.

Now, if you want something to worry about, worry about the Turkish government saying they believe the CIA was behind the mass killing at a night club.

That's a major worry because the US has a good many nuclear weapons and warheads in Turkey with the Turks keeping the US from removing them. If Erdo is going down that track he could easily come up with a reason to sieze whatever he likes thereby becoming a nuclear power then throwing all foreign troops out and leaving NATO.

The Turks suddenly getting their hands on a few dozen weapons and warheads worries me a lot more than some missile that could carry a warhead being with Russian troops in Syria. The Russians have had thousands of nukes ready to go and hit the US at a moments notice for over forty years now.

The government and military in Russia collapsed and was rebuilt under a different kind of government without anyone launching or using nukes we know for a fact that could have used at any time. The Turks have no such record of stability and cool headedness. In fact, hotheaded Muzzies getting Nukes is supposed to be the first and foremost concern for the whole War on Terror.

This wouldn't even be worth the bits it takes to report on it if there wasn't an anti-Russian BS storm on the democrat talking points for the day.

27 posted on 01/07/2017 6:34:25 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Imagine if Hezbollah gets their hands on this?


28 posted on 01/07/2017 7:26:27 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: elhombrelibre

What matters is whether there’s a guidance package attached to the “physics package.”


64 posted on 01/09/2017 12:34:00 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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