"Romney assails Obama on national security; Says budget cuts to defense funds put nation at risk" by Joseph Williams, Globe Staff | June 2, 2009
WASHINGTON - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said instead of reducing defense spending, as a proportion of total economic output, the United States needs to spend much more, restoring full funding for the missile defense system, modernizing the American nuclear arsenal, and rebuilding the military to keep pace with China's rapid military buildup.
Umm, Mitt:
"US military spending increased nearly 10 percent in 2008 to $607 billion and accounted for about 42 percent of global arms spending.... The United States was followed for the first time by China, which increased its military spending by 10 percent to an estimated $84.9 billion."
And how about the HYPOCRITICAL STENCH when it comes to OUR NUKES, huh?
"For a fraction of the money that was spent on various social and domestic programs, Washington could have given our servicemen and women the tools they need to defend us for a generation," Romney asserted....
More like carry out the plans and occupations of empire.
America has made mistakes, Romney said, but ongoing global turmoil and security threats make it a "time for strength and confidence, not apologizing to America's critics."
Apologizing is the first step we need to take for what we have done, dink!
Romney said democracies around the world, led by the United States, are competing for world leadership this century with three other forces: China, an economically powerful, authoritarian state; Russia, which flexes its global power through control of energy resources; and Islamic jihadists, who are using worldwide violence "to cause the collapse of the other three visions" and to drag "the entire world back into a medieval dictatorship ruled by mullahs and ayatollahs."
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And where do you start?
Russia controlling resources? Is that why they invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?
Oh, right, AmeriKa did that!
So you SEE the SIDES of WWIII, right, readers?
It will be USreal against the WORLD!!! And WE WON'T WIN!
We will BLOW the WORLD UP instead -- or, more likely, ISRAEL WILL!!!!
"Of these four competing strategies, notice that only one includes freedom. Only if America succeeds will freedom endure," Romney warned....
Right, yeah, torture, spying, lying, freedom!
