Gut the Military - leave America Defenseless

Obama has stated publicly, many times - he wants to cut 'wasteful' spending in the military on 'unproven' programs.

Wasteful - Subjective term that can mean - anything you want it to.
Unproven - Very subjective term that can encompass any program or set of programs.

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Obama has stated, again, very clearly, that he believes the US should work with our allies, work with the UN, not go it alone.

Any nation that works in conjunction with its allies does not need the largest military on earth. Just doesn't.

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Barney Frank - the people's choice for most hypocritical - responsible, or one of the responsible parties of the economic mortgage meltdown ... wants a 25% cut in the military.

Mr. Frank is one of the most senior members of Congress (that esteemed institution with 12% approval rating) and he does not speak for himself - he is representative of a faction of Congress.

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John F. Kerry - Reporting for Duty - wants a 2nd New deal ... hundreds of billions to make this program go forward ... and the money will come from where.

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Among anarchists and revolutionaries, Marxists - the following would well be within their worldview - that the US acts many times if not all, without justification, arrogantly, abruptly, without respect for others, and possessing a military that acts in a criminal manner most of the time.


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Among intellectuals at our major universities - the US military does less good than it does harm. In the few cases where we do good, there are far more cases where we do greater harm than good, and possessing the largest military is in itself uncalled for, a sign of arrogance and belligerence, and wasteful spending. We intimidate and abuse other countries, we are too large for our own good. No enlightened democracy has a military as large as we do and no European nation has a military equal - therefore, it is entirely unnecessary to have such a large force.


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Individually, each of these forces within our political or academic system do not warrant undue concern, but when one of their own is on the verge of winning (Obama) the gutting of the military would occur - in my mind, there is no question as to whether or not it would occur. It will and unlike the efforts in the Clinton administration - this time Congress will be controlled by the Democrats and they will not be open to debating cuts or changes. Having control of all three branches (like Clinton until 94) does not in itself warrant undue fear for Clinton may have cut the military, but he didn't gut it as I suggest they will after January 2009 - the reason is I believe clear - the Democrats did not hold a large margin in Congress; we were not eight years into a war the Democrats hated from the start; we did not have perilous economic conditions.

For the above reasons, and the fact Obama is the furthest left candidate for president we have had since McGovern, and perhaps more left of McGovern given Obama's stated interest in Marxism (even if it was within an academic setting) - the gutting of the military would occur.

That is not to say we would not use the military - to ferry people around, to clean up trash, to help people collect food, rebuild dams ... the arts of behavior the left believe the military should be doing. Rather, our national security would, with each cut, be compromised - our future - not this year and not next year, but our future position in the world would be in question.

Electing Obama is the most unwise decision any person could make.

That does not mean we should be thrilled with Jovial McCain, but we are not electing someone to do a dance routine or talk about change. We are electing someone to protect us.

As much as Americans believe the president is responsible for economic issues, he is one player and as such should not be held any more responsible than the other players. Congress holds the purse strings and for two years, Congress has been controlled by the Democrats.

I understand the desire to immediately flip back and say the Congress hasn't produced the budgets it has - the president did. But if you look at the budget the president proposed versus the budget that came out of Congress you will notice something - tens of billions added. Over several years the amounts added to the budgets and supplemental budget requests is hundreds of billions in added projects. None of that was the president. Fanny and Freddy - had the Democratic Congress not prevented oversight on entities that were in large part pushed forward to get underprivileged people into homes, covered by the federal government - we would not have had the mortgage meltdown that took our stock market and dropped it into the abyss along with world markets. That was IN LARGE PART what begin the economic issues, compounded by a cyclical economic downturn now becomes a near cataclysmic event.

So why blame it on Republicans when the Democrats have held Congress for two years. Why would any sane and reasonable person, concerned about the world consider giving our future security to someone that has stated he will slash the military, to a party that is desirous of ensuring our military never again is in the position of unilaterally invading anything bigger than Grenada.

For the Retardican party to have selected candidates that cannot do any better than a 2 year Senator with no experience doing anything of any importance - you should pray your two candidates win, for if they do not, you will find yourself wandering in the desert for forty years during which time our security, our nation, our sovereignty will be in question and your whining will not stop it. You will be partly responsible for every life lost while the Democrats have control. You will be responsible for every program they create that cannot be undone, you will be responsible.

Electing Obama and the Democrats is the wrong course. It is the wrong direction and its effects on the US will be disastrous.







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