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Imagine President Palin confronting her first international crisis. She orders the Air Force to bomb.....the wrong country. All because she is too stupid to tell north from south (or east from west for that matter). Of course to the Tea Partiers it wouldn't matter as long as she cuts their taxes.
At Fort Greeley in Alaska, the missile defense silos can defend the U.S. from both North Korea and but the Obama budget would cuts the number of interceptor missiles based there from 44 to 30.
GMD? The best thing to be said about that 21st century Maginot Line is that now we can at least see the hole that our tax funds are being poured into. Fixed defense against mobile offense.
Are we to assume that a country that can build 31 ICBMs would be utterly stumped by a requirement to build 45 instead? (Actually, with warhead intercept being the plan, reliability being less than 100% and warhead decoy technology being simpler than ICBMs, it's almost a given that several interceptors would be needed per ICBM.)
Hell, Pyongyang could deploy 50 cheap-ass fake ICBM silos and laugh their rearsides off watching the US scramble to pour more defense money into ABM interceptors. Money spent in Alaska can not be spent in South Korea.
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The Senate voted Tuesday to cut off production funding for the F-22 fighter, a come-from-behind win for Defense Secretary Robert Gates who has targeted the costly program as part of his effort to restructure the Pentagon budget.
The F-22 program was obscenely expensive, took 15 years from the contract was awarded to the first fighter was deployed, and burned money every step of the way. The USAF is getting 180+ very good air superiority fighters, but a better plane (F-35) is on the way and oh by the way, the two wars actually being fought have no need of a very good air superiority fighter.
Hell, there's all signs that developments for existing fighter aircraft - providing major capability increases at a fraction of the price - were deliberately squelched so as not to interfere with the attractiveness of the vaunted F-22. The Air Force needs to rein in their contractors.
And FWIW, even John McCain argued in favor of stopping at 187 F-22s. The USAF has a lot of tasks to handle and limited funds.
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Turtle bridges OK,...missile defense and advanced fighter jets a big waste of money?
The specific examples you mention are everything the right-wing likes to claim government projects must be - expensive, bureaucratic, and frankly, semi-corrupt affairs. Wildlife protection is chicken feed in comparison.
Here's to you lib's — Go suck swamp water. Read this!
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Originally Posted by ergohead
People like her shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Okay, egghead, here is a nice little piece in response to you critics, along with links to many of our so-called Presidents slip ups, which none of you have ever once mentioned on here, and they are far worse.
The one about 57 states, he has repeated on several occassions, I have heard it with my own ears at least twice in two speeches.
Anyone that defends this and uses Obama's slip-ups to compare it to are just grasping at straws.
Interesting that you mention that...I could never understand why people defend someone by comparing them to someone else that's guilty of the same thing.....like when people defend Obama by saying that Bush was worse...so what, they doesn't say much for Obama when they do that. Athough Obama is POTUS and Biden, who's also known for putting his foot in his mouth, is the VP and Palin, inspite of the fact the some on the left can't seem to stop making fun of her, is basically....what....just nothing more than a US citizen.
Palin's spin doctors are the hardest working people in the country! Let's see how they manage to write this one off. Unless, of course, it turns out that she actually meant what she said, and considers North Korea to be an ally.
Interesting that you mention that...I could never understand why people defend someone by comparing them to someone else that's guilty of the same thing.....like when people defend Obama by saying that Bush was worse...so what, they doesn't say much for Obama when they do that. Athough Obama is POTUS and Biden, who's also known for putting his foot in his mouth, is the VP and Palin, inspite of the fact the some on the left can't seem to stop making fun of her, is basically....what....just nothing more than a US citizen.
Although I agree with you on 'comparing', I do not agree that it is because 'one is guilty of the SAME things'.
I believe that president Obama & Joe Biden actually KNOW who our allies are & anyone who is seriously considering becoming our next president ought to know who our allies are or NOT.
Okay, egghead, here is a nice little piece in response to you critics, along with links to many of our so-called Presidents slip ups, which none of you have ever once mentioned on here, and they are far worse.
The one about 57 states, he has repeated on several occassions, I have heard it with my own ears at least twice in two speeches.
You're grasping at straws. Give me a break. Anyone with a brain knows what she meant to say.
But you people still have no excuse for Obama and his repeated "mistakes" like we have "57 states"? And that was on several occasions, not just one.
Anyone except Palin that is.
She obviously doesn't have a clue about what is the situation is in Korea.
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