Tuesday, September 09, 2008

But He Will Get Away With It

This legislation that Obama claims as his own was couched in the annual State
Department Authorization...he wasn't even a cosponsor of that larger bill. His
amendment had been folded into the larger authorization much earlier (yes, by
unanimous consent).

But we can actually take this one step further.
After the bill's passage, the US went on a worldwide hunt to buy up MANPADs.
Unable to get the MANPADs out of the hands of real enemies, we twisted the arms
of allies to give up air defense stockpiles we deemed superfluous. One of the
easiest targets? Georgia. We browbeat Georgia into giving us its MANPAD
stockpile, which was their only air defense. We all know the rest of the story.
Georgia was smart enough to go buy a few new MANPADs from places like Poland
(against our loud protestations), but when Russia invaded last month they didn't
have nearly enough to protect themselves against Russia's onslaught.


Obama shouldn't be allowed to get away with this.
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