(IBD) Honey, I Shrank The Army - Obamalateral Disarmanent Puts Us On Brink Of A Hollow Force

[Daniel John Sobieski]

Defense: As sequestration looms and an advocate of military  budget cuts prepares to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the Army reports  that it will have to cut base operations by almost a third, jeopardizing its  missions.

'The readiness of our Armed Forces is at a tipping point," Joint Chiefs of  Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey wrote to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the  chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a Jan. 14 letter also signed  by the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

The letter was written as the Pentagon braces for a looming $52 billion  shortfall this fiscal year if Congress and the White House do not reach a deal  by March 1 to avoid across-the-board cuts under sequestration rules mandated by  the Budget Control Act and by the failure of the Obama administration to  restrain its reckless nondefense spending.

In the letter, Dempsey further warned that "we are on the brink of creating a  hollow force," because under the current budget conditions and legislation, the  Pentagon could be ordered to keep a number of troops it can't sustain.

Dempsey's remarks echoed those of outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in  a recent appearance at the National Defense University.

"Very simply, it would result in hollowing out the force," he said of further  sequestration reductions on top of existing budget cuts, alluding to reductions  made in the aftermath of the Vietnam War that left Army units undermanned and  ill-equipped. "It would terribly weaken our ability to respond to the threats in  the world."

A Jan. 6 Department of the Army memo titled "Risk Mitigation In The Face Of  Fiscal Uncertainty" says the Army will seek to slash its base operations budget  by 30% from fiscal year 2012 to make ends meet.

It asks that commanders "who believe that this action will harm  mission-critical activities should indicate their reasoning and propose  alternate courses of action."

Read More At IBD:  http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012413-641903-army-cuts-ba...

[Michael Travis Moore]

Impeach Obama!  How much more harm to our country will he get away with?

[A_Nobody]

Obozo's agenda is to disarm the citizens and dissemble/disarm the military because he afraid of both, so he can pound his arrogant doctrine into us.

[BRYAN A. WEIKUM]

"In GOD We Trust".

[Bill Barnes]

Count me also, #4 I think.

[Mark W Boucher]

wow i thought i disliked obama some of these comments are out there. first off those jets and tanks are not in egypt thanks to guys like rand paul. they might even stop that shipment. and we sold f-14s to iran when they tried to use them either we or israel took parts so they couldn`t fly. thier already talking about impeachment if he tries passing laws by executive order. and as far as the U.N. coming into the U.S.A. THEY WOULD BE DEAD IN DAYS. who is gunna transport the U.N. here. do u really think our military is gunna follow obama they don`t like him anyway. you have seen other countries fighting thier governments can u think of pissed off americans fighting the U.N, and not all the U.N. countries are our enimies. i`m just like you people i want obama gone and i want to see america they way it used to be. but out of all these comments not one mentions GOD. even with all the things wrong with this country. we the people are the most generous when it comes to helping people. and i believe god will take that into account. GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY AND GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

[ladybard]

Paul Plasters - the sauds and the ex khazakstani (think savage Genghis Khan) gold merchants who infiltrated europe by 'converting' to judaism and becoming banksters, are connected via oil wells.

The khazakstani banksters funded all Communist movements, and Napoleon, to boot.  They are behind the globalist movement: control and ownership of all natural resources; populations limited to sufficient serfs to maintain said resources; monopoly of industry and creation of low paid serfs to work in factories and plants - think China, think Dubai...

While they have much in common and are rivals for 'genocidal championships' if they succeeded in destroying the Christian populations or the West, they'll turn and 'tear one another to pieces.'  Murder is sport for islam; a means to an end for communists.

[ladybard]

Was Clinton a wimp or a card concealing Communist.  I was raised with all the anti American propaganda that Clinton and Obama put into action.  They may be wimps but they're traitors first. 

 

[David P. Lagesse]

I placed the below comment on my website on Jan 30, 2008

It took longer than I expected...

[Paul Plasters]

 al pambuena, and others; I do not think he believe the things are settled down in the East.  If he does, he is a bigger fool than I thought.  If things are settled down, why is he giving them military equipment?  Because he wants THEM to win.  Not us.  I am under the understanding that muslims do not like communist's, so how is he going to make out near the end of this thing.  If my information is correct muslim's kill communists.   Or possibly that too is one of his "you can do or say anything to destroy a Christian country" tricks?

[David P. Lagesse]

(AS of) Jan 30, 2008
I have predicted it!
IF... Barack Obama wins the Presidency
He will garner himself a new nick-name.
Just like his Demon-cratic predecessors, Billy C.* and Jimmy C.
Barack will decimate our standing Military!

His new nick-name will be
"Empty Barracks Obama"
.             Remember you heard it here, first!
               * See "Quiz, Can you name this country?"
        On this page: http://www.pineapplefish56.net/GOD-Country.html