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House To Investigate Military Readiness

By: streiff (Diary)  |  September 7th, 2011 at 05:31 PM  | 

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Take some time to watch the video. It isn’t very often you’ll see one commissioned by the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. This one will make you cry with frustration.

It is no big secret in the military. The force is worn down to nubs by a decade of war, the last two of which have been waged under the management of an administration fundamentally hostile to the Armed Services.

The fact is Obama is only comfortable cutting one sector of the budget: Defense. This is not to say that Defense is without waste, fraud, and abuse but it isn’t destroying jobs and the economy like Health and Human Services, EPA, and Labor. Right now cuts in defense are projected to total a half trillion dollars. Under Secretary Gates $178 billion, earmarked to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was given up to support budget reductions.

Chairman Buck McKeon is going to hold a series of hearings over the next three weeks, around the anniversary of 9/11. Tomorrow the theme will be
The Future of National Defense and the U.S. Military Ten Years After 9/11.

No part of the budget should be sacrosanct but neither should we send young men and women in to combat without the best equipment and support the nation can offer.

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  • Paige Dulli

    War blogger Michael Yon recently posted with pictures, the sorry state of the pants our guys are wearing. It is a disgrace. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/we-need-better-pants.htm

  • 2warabnvet

    Obama can’t buy votes from the military.

  • funwithknives

    Barack H S Obama has ignored the recommendations of his military advisors, regarding Afghanistan and Iraq troop levels. WHY? Think back to his diatribes about HimSelf.
    He has stated that he can write speeches better than his staff, and thinks much more eloquently and intelligently than them, to boot. So it would would stand to reason that he would, in his own sphere, know more about the Military and accompanying theory, than The Pros do. It’s only one of many Topics, after all.
    When Barry burst upon the scene, many wondered aloud what his O T J curve would look like, and was he up to the Task? Who among us can say the curve heads ^up^ ,and that he IS?
    Sometimes I think I get an inkling of what America went through during The Dark First Months of WW2.
    It’s gotta get better than this, and the fight is not just military. Civilians allowed this situation to occur and correct it ,we must. One more reason to make BHO a one-termer.
    Gos bless all our boys and girls where ever they are. You all are the best of us, and without you, we Americans are nothing.