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2007-07-27 Home Front: Politix

Congress cuts funding for European missile project

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Posted by Steve White 2007-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Looks like the Congresscritters missed reading THE GROWING THREAT article describing Pakis + Saudi nucdevprogs [Muslim = Radic Islamist? proliferation] this morning, didn't we!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-27 00:24|| 2007-07-27 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 You seem to have mistaken them for someone who gives a damn, Joe.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-27 06:13|| 2007-07-27 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Murtha is scrapping $139 million in a total budget pushing $500 BILLION for missile defense for Europe? I guess someone's got some pork plans ready for his district, eh?

While personally I'd like to see Europe step up and pay for this themselves, we still (somewhat) rely on NATO and the Euro militaries. And, while I almost even understand cutting the European portion of this, why cut the US homeland portion? Good grief, what's it gonna take for PA to vote him out of office?

*slaps forehead*

Posted by BA 2007-07-27 08:16|| 2007-07-27 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Can someone explain to me why we should be providing a missile defense umbrella for EUrope at our expense?

I say let them reap the harvest of their own stupidity, or start writing us BIG CHECKS. We, the U.S.A. need to stop being the worlds protector and policeman, unless, these folks want to contract our services for lots of money.

As a tax payer, I'm sick of being robbed, fleeced or otherwise liberated from a significant amount of money to pay for other countries defense, or whatever, when our own nations infrastructure is in such bad shape. And let's not even talk about the fact that we borrow a lot of the money to pay for it. From the Chinese no less.

Someone needs to pull the chain on Washington, yesterday!

Posted by Natural Law 2007-07-27 08:20|| 2007-07-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 While we no longer need or want large armies in Europe, we do need staging areas for materiel and we also need allies for a variety of reasons.]

Missile defense is a deterrent against Iran and others; basing it in eastern Europe and Britain makes it more likely to stop Iranian missiles soon after launch & shields allies who have been and continue to be useful to us.

That said, we are going to face some really tough financial decisions over the next 2 decades. Baby boomers retiring (altho I suspect that many, like me, will work until they're 70 or so) and needing health and other care. A workforce whose participants in many cases have had lousy preparation in science, math or critical thinking - not to mention fact-based history and civics. An infraqstructure like highways and bridges that should have been upgraded during the Clinton years and continues to be patched on an ad hoc basis.

Tough issues in good times, made much harder by the political and cultural vitrio splashing around since the Clinton impeachment days. (And earlier ... this Scott Thomas jerk and his like are bringing back rally bad memories of the late 60s and early 70s.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-27 08:48|| 2007-07-27 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ugh - typos galore in that comment. Time to go brew some caffeine.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-27 08:49|| 2007-07-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 *$

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-27 10:47|| 2007-07-27 10:47|| Front Page Top

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