Thread: Security: Obama, Gates Gamble with American Lives

President Obama's cavalier attitude about national security, Long-range ballistic missile defense system

Security: Obama, Gates Gamble with American Lives

By Jim Kouri
Friday, July 17, 2009

While President Obama and the Democrat-run US Congress spend trillions of dollars, Secretary Robert Gates and Obama’s Administration have requested a drawdown of 32 percent in the 2010 fiscal year budget for the long-range ballistic missile defense system—a specific reduction from 44 ground based interceptors to 30 ground based interceptors—to protect the United States of America from long range ballistic missiles, according to Riki Ellison, the Chairman and Founder of Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a non-profit national security think tank.

Ellison states that he believes that the current position of the Secretary of Defense places the security of the United States from current and future long-range ballistic missile threats to the nation and population at a much higher risk then it should be after the $13 billion US tax dollar investment in this system.

“Ellison, like many Americans, is concerned over President Obama’s cavalier attitude about national security. His national security team, including his Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and his Attorney General Eric Holder, appear more concerned with American dissenters and patriots than with genuine enemies of the United States,â€

Cold war is over and we will still retain enough weapons and military might to anihilate anyone and anything...