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We still need a strong military defense


Posted: Feb 1, 2013

John Bolton: The war on terror is not over. Al Qaeda has not been defeated. The struggle is spreading and if we don’t face up to that reality we’re going to have another attack on an American embassy that will be even more successful from the terrorist point of view. … We have no strategy! That’s why I’ve been so concerned that the whole sweep from the Atlantic coast of West Africa, through the Middle East, all the way over to Pakistan is deteriorating from the perspective of the United States and its close allies – Israel, Arab countries in the region. The threat of terrorism, the threat of insurrection, the threat of the Iranian nuclear weapon’s program – all growing with no effective response from America or the West. http://www.therightscoop.com/john-bolton-the-war-on-terror-is-not-over-al-qaeda-has-not-been-defeated-and-we-have-no-strategy/;

Seems like this falls on deaf ears - sm

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Obama is cutting the defense budget no matter what the conventional wisdom is.

Obama does not hold the purse strings. - congress does

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So which is it, does he spend too much, or not enough?

Obama will do whatever he wants to - sm

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either by threats and bullying or if those fail then he will use EO - so it does not matter who holds the purse strings
Obama can cut the budget with an EO? - really?
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Again, does he spent too much or not enough?

Anyhow, here's a link to US budget process. No mention of EO or bullying.
He would find a way to cut it - if he HAD a budget
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which he doesn't.
You don't understand EOs. Presidents use them to - administer laws enacted by Congress. SM
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The federal government usually IS the administering body for laws enacted by Congress and uses executive orders to manage its operations. It's supposed to, and all Presidents have done so. In these cases EOs have the authority of law since they are administration of laws enacted by Congress.

Here's from Wickipedia: "Until 1952, there were no rules or guidelines outlining what the president could or could not do through an executive order. However, the Supreme Court ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952) that Executive Order 10340 from President Harry S. Truman placing all steel mills in the country under federal control was invalid because it attempted to make law, rather than clarify or act to further a law put forth by the Congress or the Constitution. Presidents since this decision have generally been careful to cite which specific laws they are acting under when issuing new executive orders."

Now, if presidents occasionally find ways to apply laws that a current group in Congress doesn't happen to like (occurs all the time), that's just the way the electoral ball bounces.

Anyway, there's nothing for you to be alarmed at here. It's just normal procedure, just as it is normal for some people to be unhappy at whatever any president is doing. We truck on. :)

I agree we need a strong defense - RC

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But I don't believe should include the outrageous prices we pay defense contractors who are in bed with politicians.

I'm looking at you, Halliburton.

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