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| Obie Says Defense He Opposed Can Handle North Korea | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 12 2013, 02:35 AM (1,042 Views) | |
| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 02:35 AM Post #1 |
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I think the boy dictator (the one in NK) is just throwing a tantrum but the boy wannabe dictator (the one we have) is being about as childish with this. Missile Defense: As Pyongyang threatens a nuclear strike, the administration says our missile defenses can handle anything they can throw against us or our allies. If so it's not because of anything the president did. 'I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday after North Korea's raging runt, Kim Jong-un, said Pyongyang was scrapping the 1953 armistice deal that ended the Korean War. He threatened a "preemptive" nuclear strike against the U.S. Carney added that "our recent success in returning to testing of the upgraded version of the so-called GBI (ground based interceptor), or the CE2 missile, will keep us on a good trajectory to improve our defense capability against limited ballistic missile threats such as those from North Korea. But let's be clear, we are fully capable of dealing with that threat." The operative word here is "returning," for what Carney did not say is that candidate Obama campaigned on gutting missile defense and carried out that pledge in his first term, along the way betraying our allies and caving in to Russian demands that we limit our missile defense capabilities. In a campaign video shown to the far left group, Caucus for Priorities, a month before the January 2008 Iowa caucuses, candidate Obama pledged, "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space." And he kept his word. President Obama's 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency's budget. The cuts included scaling back the Airborne Laser boost-phase program, terminating the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor, canceling the expansion of those same ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, and delaying funding for interceptor and radar sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. President Obama betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic, abandoning plans for ground-based interceptors and missile defense radars, needed to defend against Iranian missile launches. He did so after Moscow objected, said it would target the sites, and threatened withdrawal from the New Start Treaty. An open microphone at a photo-op between President Obama and outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit caught Obama saying to Medvedev, "On all these issues, particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him (past and future Russian President Vladimir Putin) to give me space." Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/030813-647378-obama-says-missiles-can-handle-north-korea.htm#ixzz2NG2JunsX |
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| Pat | Mar 12 2013, 02:44 AM Post #2 |
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I read that if you want to knock down a ballistic missile, then you have to shoot it down before it reaches it's boost, or else the speed makes it near impossible. This requires an precise early detection, because the entire process to reach a target here is around 20 minutes. So if Obama is claiming we are that precise in defense, OK. But I doubt it. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 12 2013, 03:06 AM Post #3 |
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The world as seen by Neutral and "investors.com." |
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| Pat | Mar 12 2013, 03:14 AM Post #4 |
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Why the snarky comment? The topic has nothing to do with the information's source or the poster. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 12 2013, 03:20 AM Post #5 |
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I disagree with you Pat. I think the topic has everything to do with the attitude of the highly biased source as well as the poster. Both have a very limited right wing view of the world. That accounts for the post and the content of the post. I intended nothing "snarky" about my post. On edit, I am assuming that you meant something personally negative by the use of the non word "snarky." Edited by colo_crawdad, Mar 12 2013, 03:22 AM.
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 03:40 AM Post #6 |
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It's a fact Obie opposed that which he now says will handle NK. |
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| Brewster | Mar 12 2013, 03:41 AM Post #7 |
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Investors.com has an impeccable record of telling he right wing version of a story, no matter what the truth may be. They're as bad as Canada Free Press! |
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 03:45 AM Post #8 |
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Why don't you tell us what you think the truth is then? Tell us where they are wrong. |
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| Brewster | Mar 12 2013, 03:58 AM Post #9 |
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You started to go wrong when you went to the IBD site. It went downhill from there. Do you have any proof from an authoritative source (that is, something not in the Right Wing Echo Chamber) that Obama killed GBI development? I thought not. Man, you're gullible. You'll believe ANYTHING that makes Obama look bad. Truth be D*mned. Edited by Brewster, Mar 12 2013, 03:58 AM.
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| Neutral | Mar 12 2013, 04:01 AM Post #10 |
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You can only attack the source again, it's common knowledge he opposed it. |
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