Yes finally someone with some brains , who wants to protect America from turning into a socialist France , Cant wait to vote the worst president in American history out !!!!!!!!

LIBERALS = IDIOTS

all this b.s. about Obama. my ? is, WHEN do the people stand behind him? look whats happening to our country! now cutting the military is as stupid as he can get! I dont fancy a foriegn gov., DO YOU?

We spend more on defense (read "war") than the rest of the world combined. We also sell more weapons to other nations than the rest of the world combined. Who is threatening us? Maybe another island nation similar to Grenada? Wake up America - we're all being suckered!

I remember when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and Jimmie (peanut head) Carter said: "I didn't know they would do that". WTF??? At the time, I was just a Sargent in the Marines, and even I knew they would do that. It is all right there in black and white in their communist manifesto. And this was our Commander in Chief who was so surprised. Scary that this is the type of military leadership we can expect from libbies.

"Romney warns of perils of shrinking military at Memorial Day event"

And this is coming from a Vietnam Draft Dodger who sat out the Vietnam War in France?

What he should be protecting is the Promise of No Cost Health Care for Military Retirees that John McCain is calling Congress to bring a halt to. A promise that was broken once after the Cold War Ended and is now on the verge of being broken even further.

25 May 2012

1. SASC Kills Big TRICARE Increase Proposals: The Senate Armed Services Committee voted this week to reject Defense Department recommendations that in five years would have quadrupled annual TRICARE enrollment fees on some military retirees. Also rejected were proposals to create enrollment fees for those retirees enrolled in TRICARE Extra, Standard and for Life programs. The Senate committee vote comes one week after the House also rejected DOD’s proposals in their version of the FY 2013 defense bill. This does not yet mean that military retirees will not see some enrollment fee increase. Congress last year tied TRICARE Prime increases to annual cost-of-living adjustments, which in January was 3.6 percent for retirees. The 2013 COLA is anticipated to be 1.7 percent. Slight increases in pharmaceutical copays are still being worked out. The House and now the Senate Armed Services Committee listened to the VFW and rejected drastic TRICARE fee increases, which is why we continue to urge you to contact your senators today and tell them the VFW expects their support of the committee-passed bill as it now moves to the floor for debate. Contact your members at http://capwiz.com/vfw/dbq/officials/.

Prior to the end of the Cold War, all an Active Duty Military person, spouse, dependent or Retiree had to show to get the Health Care they were promised was to show their Military I.D. card.

Romney epitomizes the industrial military complex that President Eisenhower warned us about. God help us if he gets in.

When will you stupid ass Conservatives learn? Obama used our military 21st century style. Instead of sending the WHOLE ARMY he used Special Forces to get ONE person(Call of Duty). Instead of using the WHOLE ARMY he sent in DRONES to blow those Al Qaeda bitches off the map even though there was collateral damage. Nevertheless the job got done. During the Vietnam War where was that punk ass Romney? In France.

Pathetic Rich Boy Romney using Memorial Day to pull his agenda ahead. Sick!!!!!! We all know his copy Bush tore the VA budget a new hole and his stance on a nonpolitical day is military cuts. He might as well held a Vet down and gave his a haircut with that speech.

I am a Vet - retired Army after 24 years of service. With shrinking budgets and the need to protect our Nation ECONOMICALLY, any talk of maintaining or even expanding our current military size, as we draw down in Afghanistan, is dumb. The military has a purpose - to protect our Nation...but if we maintain this huge military while we're bought out by China, then how much did the military protect us?

Also, as we cut budgets, keep in mind that maintaining a high number of troops during times of budget cuts means that those troops won't get the pay and benefits they deserve....military retirees will also lose out....military families will live in poorer housing, poorer schools, etc etc....so shrinking the military actually IS SUPPORTING THE TROOPS during times of severe government budget cuts (as will be coming now and over the coming years).

Also David- 604380 is right - we can do more and better with Special Ops forces, with surgical operations in small areas with few (extremely well trained) pilots and troops.....the days of the big tank battle across the Fulda Gap to save Europe from Soviet Domination are over....our military is starting to reflect that change...we just need to follow that up and quit yapping about how the "SIZE" of our military equates to our security....that math doesn't fly anymore in the face of our world economy.

So Mr. Corporate wealth over job growth Romney tells us he is for the military? The same guy who told us going after Bin Laden was not worth our time? Good lord we would all be in danger under Romney's lead.

Thank you to all of those who paid the ultimate price. Sometimes you have to let people deal with there own problems.

Let the FEAR MONGERING begin!

TEApublicans want to give the Pentagon money the Pentagon themselves say they don't need. That's One Foolish Idea!

McCain graduated at bottom of his class, with most of the time served as a POW, now recommends Romney as CEO In Chief, based on his ability to lead a group harass fellow school mate with a pair of scissors. At least Romney may discover that it would better to find victory in war using a leveraged buyout. We could have provided lifetime pensions to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, and none of those countries would ever have to work for couple of generations.

Since the bankers, financers, capitalists and hedge fund managers cannot seem find way to invest in the future, and because they do so less and less each passing year day, the US will never grow economically again. Since the government cannot tax the idle rich and the poor cannot support themselves, it cannot invest in the economy to grow again. Since the economy has no investment it would difficult to support a military in constant warfare. Since a nation at constant warfare, cannot grow an economy is cannot prosper enough to support warfare.

We have become so addicted to nonsense, cannot see even this small part of history, that was Sparta, it gave is the word Spartan, and mistaken that militarism would bring prosperity. The Spartan did well supporting a warrior class, and did so for century or so without fighting a war, because they were feared they could live in peace. This period ended when Spartans be fighting other people's wars, these wars exposed the Spartan war skills to close observation by the enemy, and few secrets were kept secret for long. The constant warfare exposed their methods, and left the home front weakened and exhausted, and very soon thereafter there were no Spartans.

The wars Korean, Vietnam, Iraq 1and 2, Afghanistan all have taught the enemy valuable lessons, more so than anything learned at home. The main weakness of the US is its extensive and expensive overwhelming force that in fact we dare not use, we have a luxury of forces, but the enemy just knows that we cannot afford it. The enemy just has to wait until we are broke, and while waiting can keep sending back a constraint stream of wounded, a practice that is very effective. The enemies of the US know that our worldwide military forces are much more dependent on fossil energy than even sagging US economy. Those same enemies also know that the US has no intention of addressing the energy dependence, they know our best extraction efforts will not sustains us, and they know that each year of delay, will place them in secure knowledge of our limits. The enemy knows the propaganda tools used in the US against its own citizens, and know who is funding those tools, makes those citizens worried, frightened, limits their education, stifles and dulls their response, distract and mollifies. The result it the US cannot invest it what needs but only in what brings short term financial gains that are then wasted on even shorter gains. This is beautifully disastrous, Americas cannot react when they see energy dependence, what investments that are being made deepen the dependence on energy, and we want to invest in other countries oil production at the exclusion of the mounting problems at home, and those that have the financial power to make prudent investments are merely purchasing each other insurance policies against the inevitable collapse that they are planning for.

For such reasons they will have to answer for, is just one expectation, but when we realize the inadequacy of such nonsense positions, we will need such power action these Titians of industry will be seen as pathetic and unable to the task.

Then tell me something you Pus are you going to teel your kids to join and fight the next war that you want to start?? ( Romneys ) kids...im a 100% disable combat veteran

All we need is a strong reserve/national guard (I served in all 3 components of the Air Force). Same training, but at 1/3 the cost. Why aren't the teabaggers screaming about money now? We should be building friendly coalitions not enemy forces. Romney and McCain are wrong! I thought the US was broke, but I guess not when they want to spend unlimited amounts of money on the military.

Any @!$%# that believes a word this dick breath speaks doesn't even have the sense of an idiot.

Big military and war. That's all the republicans want.

And once again, mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo has chosen fear over meaningful information. Instead of telling you about what could happen, romeny should be talking about what will happen when he keeps military spending at current levels while cutting social security & medicare by 70% to balance the budget with tax increases only on those making less than $100,000 per year.

Yes. Everybody thought is was nearly impossible but mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo have finally agreed to increase taxes. But only on those making less than $100,000 per year. Including those not paying any income taxes today. All the while reducing taxes for the upper 1% and corporations. It's all to continue with their plan to make the rich richer, poor poorer. And why. It's because of their belief that corporations are people too. Just like romeny told you. They all believe it.

But first read the book 'Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It' [Paperback] by Jeffrey D. Clements. See why the mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo can spew lies with every breath. And practice a religion of hatred against blacks, hispanics, women, & gays in addition to their hatred of science and scientists.

"Romney warns of perils of shrinking military at Memorial Day event"

And this is coming from a Vietnam Draft Dodger who sat out the Vietnam War in France, hangs out with Ted Nugent, another Vietnam Draft Dodger and Donald the "Birther" Trump?

Memorial Day to warn of the dangers of a shrinking U.S. military in a dangerous world.

We simply cannot afford to be the world's policeman.

It's not that we don't want to or don't need to or blah, blah, blah.

We CANNOT AFFORD TO!!!

If he wants to truly balance the budget then serious cuts need to be made across the board, including the military.

The military needs to shrink from a force that simultaneously conducts two decade-long occupations/nation building efforts far from home. That was a crazy strategy to start with, so "shrinking" from a crazy strategy is the right move.

Our defense spending is more than reagan's, adjusted for inflation. More than anyone else (by far), about equal to the total world's combined. We have the technology to destroy the world many times over.

I think a reasonable shrinking makes sense.

Sure Romney we all know how Republicans like war to promote goods and services,drive up certain stocks. History proves that Republicans are usually in charge when wars break out.

Actually Mutt Romney is right. The shrinking military is NOT a good thing. The reason it's shrinking is there has been much too much unnecessary WAR and our troops are combat weary. They need to be replaced and the volunteer army isn't working when the Republicans commit us to WAR, especially WAR that isn't needed. Many of our troops have served 3,4 or 5 or more tours . That is way too much. WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE WAR AND ROMNEY WILL HAVE US IN ANOTHER WAR FASTER THAN GEORGE W. BUSH DID. We don't need another warmonger at the helm of this country. We need a man who has ended our war in Iraq and has announced the Afghanistan War will come to a conclusion soon.

OBAMA--BIDEN 2012 FOR NO MORE WARS...

Let us all remember that when it was Mitt's turn to serve, he ran away to Paris. Of military age during Vietnam, he vocally supported the war but sought and obtained a draft deferment. Some of us call that being a chickenhawk.

Give me a break we have enough nukes to destroy the world several times over and almost every war we have been in for the last fifty years has done nothing to stabilize the world.