Armed Services chairman: Obama is anti-military!

[Jake Martinez]

No surprise here!

Posted on The Washington Times-By Shaun Waterman, The Washington Times-On September 12, 2011:

“The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, in a harsh attack on the Obama administration Monday, accused the president of viewing American military power as a negative force in the world, and planning to “gut” defense spending through the congressional deficit-reduction committee.

“It is my suspicion that the White House and congressional Democrats” designed the supercommittee process “for one purpose: to force Republicans to choose between raising taxes or gutting defense,” said California Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, the House Armed Services Committee chairman.

Mr. McKeon also lashed out at the administration’s defense and security policies that he asserted are based on a negative view of U.S. power in the world.

“President Obama’s policies often seem reflective of an ideology that treats American power as the principal adversary, not ally, to world peace,” he told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute.

That view “flies in the face of both history and experience. And it resigns us to national decline,” he added.

“Power in benevolent hands is a virtue, not a vice.”

White House officials declined to respond.

Under the deficit reduction act passed by Congress this summer, if the supercommittee cannot agree on a package of measures to reduce the national debt, the Defense Department, already facing spending cuts of $350 billion over 10 years, will face another half trillion or more dollars in automatic cuts — what defense officials have termed a “doomsday trigger.”

“That political gamesmanship is simply unacceptable,” Mr. McKeon said of the deal, which he voted to approve while expressing grave concerns about the potential impact on defense spending.

Even if the supercommittee is able to reach a deal and avoid pulling the defense cut trigger, Mr. McKeon said he remained concerned that the White House planned to make cuts of almost the same half-trillion dollar amount through the supercommittee process.

“Recent statements from the Office of Management and Budget indicate that the administration could be pushing for defense cuts that near the size and scope of the trigger, within the confines of the supercommittee,” he said.

Such cuts would be “beyond what the Defense Department is prepared to absorb,” he added, and would “open the door to aggression, as our ability to deter and respond to an attack would be severely crippled.”

“Folks, it is impossible to pay our entitlement tab with the Pentagon’s credit card,” he stated.

Officials at the Office of Management and Budget had no immediate comment on Mr. McKeon’s remarks.

Concern about cuts to defense spending is widely shared by Republicans conservatives. Some have taken a more optimistic view of the outcome of the supercommittee process.

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, one of the six Republican members of the supercommittee, last week laid down a political marker in opposing further defense cuts, saying the military had shouldered its share of spending reductions

Mr. Kyl said he told the new panel’s chairman at its first meeting, that “I’m off of the committee if we’re gonna talk about further defense spending [cuts].”

House Democrats say they are committed to a responsible solution to the nation’s spiraling debt crisis.

“Rather than just focus on the potential damage to national defense that could be caused by large and arbitrary cuts, we should ask … how can we put together a sustainable national defense strategy?” said Rep. Adam Smith, Washington state Democrat and ranking member of the Armed Services Committee,

“I don’t believe anyone here thinks defense funding will stay level or increase in real terms in the future, so what missions should we think about canceling? What can we do smarter? And what principles [should we] use to prioritize the interests in the world that we must defend or the threats we must defend against?”

One important benefit of U.S. military power in Asia is countering China’s rising assertiveness, Mr. McKeon said, noting that China’s navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy and is being dispatched “into the territorial waters of our allies,” in order to “intimidate our friends in the Pacific Rim.”

Mr. McKeon called a recent Pentagon report on Chinese military power “face-whitening,” especially coming “from an administration that has gone to great lengths to avoid upsetting our neighbors in Beijing.”

“The fact is,” he said, “China keeps our admirals up at night. And for good reason. Any historian worth his salt knows that massive military buildups and chest-thumping speeches about national destiny is a dangerous combination.”

The House chairman accused the Chinese of being “emboldened with new found military might and drunk with economic power,” and said they are “convinced that they have been given an opening with our current financial crisis.”

“For the first time in their history, Beijing believes they can achieve military parity with the United States,” he said.”

Source:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/12/armed-services-buck...

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I. Obama Strategy Guts U.S. Armed Services!

Posted on WND.com-On July 23, 2011:

“The United States’ military, which has acted as the world’s security team for decades, is destined to become a “hollow force” with fewer personnel and weapons systems, slowed modernization and reduced readiness under President Obama’s strategy, an analysis is predicting, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The analysis by a team of defense experts from the American Enterprise Institute said that the Obama administration is looking at potentially $900 billion in defense cuts over a decade to protect such social entitlement programs as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the health care reform law from serious deficit and debt reduction efforts now under consideration.

Ultimately, the defense budget could become the largest bill-payer for addressing the deficit, and that bodes ill, according to the “abstract numbers game” that accountants have reviewed.

The military forecast and the impact on U.S. readiness was outlined by Thomas Donnelly and Gary J. Schmitt in an AEI report entitled, “Warning: Hollow Force Ahead!”

“Those arguing for deep cuts in the defense budget will suggest that the majority of these conflicts were unavoidable,” Schmitt said in separate comments. “Yet, in doing so, they are ignoring the realities of history, statecraft and domestic politics.

“And cutting troops or buying fewer planes or ships is not going to change those dynamics,” he said. “However, what it will do is leave the men and women of the American military in a far more precarious position to carry out what we as a nation will almost surely be asking them to do.”

In their report, Donnelly and Schmitt point out that former Defense Secretary Robert Gates already had identified $400 billion in cuts. However, Obama signaled that “we’re going to do more” and cut another $400 billion.

They referred to Obama’s recent proposals to cut military spending by some $900 billion from defense and quoted the president as saying that this increase in cuts was “broadly consistent” with his intention to get the country’s finances under control. They added that there is a prospect that Congress even could cut defense “well beyond” Obama’s proposal.

“It is clear that there is a willingness within the administration and among some members of Congress to slash defense well beyond the president’s earlier mark of $400 billion,” the report said.

The result, they said, will be a “hollow force” characterized by fewer personnel and weapons systems, slowed military modernization, reduced readiness for operations and continued stress on the all-volunteer force.

“If realized, this modern day ‘hollow force’ will be less capable of securing America’s interests and preserving the international leadership role that rests upon military preeminence,” they said.

The AEI analysts said that it also is a myth that a withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, will help alleviate the military’s manpower problems and control military spending.

In fact, they believe that the demand for military personnel actually rise will as the geopolitical situation changes, given U.S. international commitments.

“President Obama has maintained every foreign policy commitment set by his predecessors and added to the military’s missions,” it said. “The president surged forces twice in Afghanistan, started a new operation in Libya, sent troops to Japan and Haiti for disaster relief operations and kept 1,200 National Guard troops at America’s southwest border.

“The future of American national security is being mortgaged to fight today’s wars and reduce the deficit by an insignificant amount,” the report’s analysts said. “As a result, America’s armed forces, which have been stretched thin for nearly a decade, will likely be asked in the years ahead to do the same or more with even less if defense spending is cut once again.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324925

II. The Plot to Destroy the US Military-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Daniel Greenfield-On March 21, 2011:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34646

III. Obama’s War Against the U.S. Military-Posted on Human Events-By Buzz Patterson-On September 10, 2010:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38943

IV. WH Minimizing Beijing’s Military Threat, Denying its Expansionist Intentions!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 23, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=324577

V. Two never-finished Navy ships head to scrap heap!-Posted on PilotOnline.com-By By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot-On July 15, 2011:

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VI. Ten Questions for Defense Secretary Nominee Leon Panetta!-Posted on The Weekly Standard-By DANIEL HALPER-On June 9, 2011:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ten-questions-defense-secretary...

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Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228741/alinsky-does-afghanis...

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270378/alinksi-does-afghanista...

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Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On June 13, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/panetta-obama-can-use-military-...

Podesta: Obama Can Use ‘Armed Forces’ To Push Progressive Agenda!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On November 18, 2010:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/podesta-obama-can-use-armed-forces-...

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Jake