Mitt Romney: 'I Will Not Cut The Military Budget'

[Lakhota]

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[GoneBezerk]

The DoD budget has been cut under Obamination, so Romney wants to restore it to a decent level.

 

[Buford]

Obama didn't get congressional approval to attack Libya. Did you know that?

Duh, yeah I know that. He didn't need approval for a short air attack. Iran would be much more dangerous.

Dropping ONE bomb on a sovereign nation is an act of war.

Unless their name is Israel.

 

[Lakhota]

The DoD budget has been cut under Obamination, so Romney wants to restore it to a decent level.

Really? When did that happen?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Was that before or after Reagan betrayed his country and broke the law by selling arms to Iran?

You can't be that ignorant....can you?

1. Do you know there were hearings..a joint House-Senate committee investigation of the Iran-Contra affair
Who was convicted?
Names?

2. What was the public's view of the Liberal attempt to convict Reagan?

For your edification:

a. "The outcome of the constitutional struggle over the Iran-Contra matter would be decided in that exact way: by public judgment of the political clash in Washington. The joint House-Senate committee investigation of the Iran-Contra affair—an investigation Democrats likened to Watergate and hoped would end with Reagan’s impeachment—took a turn President Reagan’s critics had not expected when Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North appeared and delivered a devastatingly effective attack on liberals in Congress for their irresponsible meddling in foreign policy.

Public opinion decisively shifted in Reagan’s favor, and the liberal dream of driving another Republican president from office died quickly. In other words, the people judged, just as Locke said they should, and judged that Reagan had acted properly, if not necessarily wisely.
The Unsolvable Problem of Executive Power | Power Line


See....now you've got to go have your mouth washed out with soap....

Public opinion is what saved Reagan from getting the boot.

But he did break the law.

And he did betray his country.

1. I don't care who ya' are....this is funny: "Public opinion is what saved Reagan from getting the boot."
You never understood that 'election' thing, huh"

2. "But he did break the law."
Wrong again, furry.


"The Iran-Contra scandal involved the sale of arms to Iran, basically to ransom American hostages that Islamic extremists held, and diverting proceeds from the sale to the Contras in Nicaragua. Neither the sale nor the diversions of funds were clear violations of existing laws: subsequent independent counsel investigations never directly convicted anyone with crimes for either the arms sales nor the diversions.

a. "... reversal of NSC staff member Oliver North and National Security Adviser John Poindexter’s convictions. The Court of Appeals reversed their convictions because they successfully argued that witnesses in their trials might have been affected by publicized immunized congressional testimony, even though the prosecutors themselves had taken painstaking efforts to avoid encountering information about the hearings."
Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs - The Legal Aftermath

b. Two points should be made clear. The Democrat Congress was strongly in favor of the communists of Nicaragua, and the scandal was an attempt to tie the hands of the President, who was strongly anti-communist. And, two, congressional attempts to conduct foreign policy were, at the very least, constitutionally dubious. Reagan often complained [p. 222] that it was not possible to carry out foreign policy with 535 secretaries of state in Congress.
From chapter 15 of the "Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents," by Steven Hayward.


So...when are you gonna stop believing Liberals?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Bush - Obama - Romney.

Seamless transitions as there's NO DIFFERENCE!

 

[OODA_Loop]

Great. Buy more m1911's.

Loose the 9mm pizza service side arm.

 

[Lakhota]

Wingnuts need a nuclear boogeyman. First it was North Korea, and now it's Iran. A country smart enough build nuclear weapons is smart enough not to use them (ignore USA). They understand the horrific consequences of first use.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Of course, you're oblivious to the DoD budget cuts before this looming $500 billion cut, because you're a fucking moron.

The DoD has been laying off GS civilians left and right and also downsizing the troop levels too, uh that is a cutback in spending.

Also, the DoD has stopped certain programs like the F/A-22, TSAT, etc which is because of FUCKING BUDGET CUTS.

Now you idiot liberals want the Air Force to pay more for "green" fuel for planes and the Navy more for "green fuel" for their ships....while they cut the budget to pieces. You are just fucking stupid.

The DoD budget has been cut under Obamination, so Romney wants to restore it to a decent level.

Really? When did that happen?

 

[GoneBezerk]

Why are idiots like you allowed to breath?

Wingnuts need a nuclear boogeyman. First it was North Korea, and now it's Iran. A country smart enough build nuclear weapons is smart enough not to use them (ignore USA). They understand the horrific consequences of first use.

 

[NYcarbineer]

This must be upsetting for code pink dykes and social welfare dependents..........

The welfare recipients here are in the defense industry in make-work jobs protected by the defense lobby.

 

[Lakhota]

Of course, you're oblivious to the DoD budget cuts before this looming $500 billion cut, because you're a fucking moron.

The DoD has been laying off GS civilians left and right and also downsizing the troop levels too, uh that is a cutback in spending.

Also, the DoD has stopped certain programs like the F/A-22, TSAT, etc which is because of FUCKING BUDGET CUTS.

Now you idiot liberals want the Air Force to pay more for "green" fuel for planes and the Navy more for "green fuel" for their ships....while they cut the budget to pieces. You are just fucking stupid.

The DoD budget has been cut under Obamination, so Romney wants to restore it to a decent level.

Really? When did that happen?

Read and learn. The links below include live source links for the mentally impaired:

Romney Blames Obama For Bipartisan Military Spending Cuts | ThinkProgress

Ahead of NATO summit, Mitt Romney argues that bipartisan defense cuts are Obama's fault - The Washington Post

 

[whitehall]

It's a policy statement you fools. What have we heard from democrats in the last ten years? Remember "betray-us"? Democrats authorized president Bush to use combat troops and then they sat back and pretended they were bystanders or part of the jihad while they undermined the Military effort they authorized.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Like I said you don't have proof Obamination didn't cut the DoD budget, nevermind the pending $500B cuts in addition to previous cuts.

You didn't hear about it on msnbc, so it is all just lies from Rush, FOX, the boogeyman, etc.

Go kill yourself.

Of course, you're oblivious to the DoD budget cuts before this looming $500 billion cut, because you're a fucking moron.

The DoD has been laying off GS civilians left and right and also downsizing the troop levels too, uh that is a cutback in spending.

Also, the DoD has stopped certain programs like the F/A-22, TSAT, etc which is because of FUCKING BUDGET CUTS.

Now you idiot liberals want the Air Force to pay more for "green" fuel for planes and the Navy more for "green fuel" for their ships....while they cut the budget to pieces. You are just fucking stupid.

Really? When did that happen?

Read and learn. The links below include live source links for the mentally impaired:

Romney Blames Obama For Bipartisan Military Spending Cuts | ThinkProgress

Ahead of NATO summit, Mitt Romney argues that bipartisan defense cuts are Obama's fault - The Washington Post

 

[Wry Catcher]

Yep, I like that. There are many programs to cut in govt.

How does one cut government programs and not increase unemployment?

 

[Ariux]

Hows the "We need to increasing military spending to avoid fighting wars" working out?

 

[Conservative]

By Max J. Rosenthal

In a week when defense industry leaders gathered in Washington to sound the alarm about potential cuts to defense spending, Mitt Romney pledged his support for a "military that's second to none" and vowed not to slash the Pentagon's funds.

"I will not cut the military budget," he told the American Legion, which published excerpts on Thursday from an interview with the presumptive Republican nominee. "I will instead expand our essential weapons programs and our [number of] active-duty personnel. I do these things not so that we have to fight wars, but so that we can prevent wars."

Romney is a longtime critic of cutting the defense budget, arguing that shrinking the numbers of ground troops, planes and ships will damage national security. While the Pentagon has proposed $487 billion in budget cuts over the next decade, Romney has suggested increasing the military's budget by as much as $2 trillion during the same period, according to some estimates.

More: Mitt Romney: 'I Will Not Cut The Military Budget'

wow.. a HuffPo piece, with an 'estimate' of something Romney might possibly maybe kinda sorta do, possibly.