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Previously announced Pentagon spending cuts will still be included in the budget President Obama sends Congress on Tuesday. But they now face an even harder sell on Capitol Hill, where home-state interests and election-year politics often prevail along with a bipartisan predilection for bombast.
Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, blamed Obama for having already cut projected Pentagon funding by $487 billion over 10 years.
His disarming of America over the past five years limits our options in Ukraine today, Inhofe said in a statement Monday.
Once again "It's Obama's fault"
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)piece of shit? The Pentagon budget is capped by CONGRESS, anyway--they voted for sequester and refuse to lift it for 2016. If they don't like it, they can reverse it--but they'd rather blame Obama. Edit to add: the new budget makes sense, unless Inhofe thinks we're going to occupy Ukraine, the dumbfuck.
moondust
(19,956 posts)I imagine McCain's war profiteering buddies are pushing him real hard to take full advantage of this opportunity to get a big new war going to replace the two cash cows they have lost--thanks to Obama.
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)big $$$$$ for the MIC!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)That is the strategy that Al Qaeda has used to great advantage.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)next, the A-10 rises from the ashes of the cutting table. (They have armor)
Oh and this has zero to do with Inhofe by the way, he is just the parrot right at the moment.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)with Russia. Next thing you know will be building bases all over europe again and starting an arms race.