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Thanks To Bush & Reagan - No N. Korea Threat

Mike

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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."
Medvedev said he would communicate this to Putin after President Obama added, "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
When North Korea orbited a failed satellite in December aboard an Unha-3 long-range missile, it was treated in some quarters as a stunt of no real significance or threat.
Serious observers, however, noted that any nation capable of putting an object in orbit could deliver an object to any point on the planet and the ability of North Korea to developed a missile warhead would be a question of when, not if.
When Pyongyang announced a third round of nuclear tests and that a "nuclear test of a higher level" would be carried out, it most likely referred to a device made from highly enriched uranium, which is easier to miniaturize than the plutonium bombs it tested in 2006 and 2009, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.
If we can handle the North Korean missile threat, it is thanks to President Ronald Reagan's derided "Star Wars" dream and the Strategic Defense Initiative he refused to surrender to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, who met Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986, and to President George W. Bush, who made missile defense a priority, not a target for budget cuts.
We thank you both.


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Traveler

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

The way he's still campaigning it makes one wonder if he has other plans. People that are definitely not democrats and would never vote for Obama are presently getting Obama fundraising letters, with a space for comments on a paper that has their name on it. I don't know of anyone that has replied with comments for fear of retribution from this divisive administration.

The letter does mention his priorities, such as global warming and gay rights, etc... :x
 

hypocritexposer

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Thanks To Bush & Reagan - No N. Korea Threat

and here I thought it was due to the new N. Korean ambassador



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