Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs

Cornerstone of U.S. Naval power eliminated under Obama budget

BY: Adam Kredo
March 24, 2014 1:23 pm

President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say have helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.

The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.

In addition to the monetary cuts to the program, the number of actual Tomahawk missiles acquired by the United States would drop significantly—from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.

The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to Obama’s proposal.

If a single Democrat votes in Congress to pass this budget item as is then they should be decorating a limb on the same tree that the Kenyan, Communist, Traitor is swinging from.

This isn’t reducing America’s ability to project power around the Globe, this is leaving us without the means to defend ourselves.  Along with the purposed decommissioning of the A-10 (the Warcraft that destroyed Saddam’s Armour) this is striking from the hands of our protectors every weapon that they depend upon.  If Putin decides to take back all the old Soviet territory in Eastern Europe what is the US Military supposed to use to stop him?  Harsh Words as Pvt. Frost asked?

To be disarmed.  

To be clear, the intention of this Presidential Budget is that by 2016 the US Armed Forces have Zero, nada, zip inventory of Tomahawk or Hellfire missiles in inventory.

I’m not an idiot, I know that a Presidential Budget isn’t written on stone, or prophesy or even given Obama’s current political troubles very likely to pass.   But it’s a frightening indication of his intentions and strikingly close to what Dinesh D’Souza warned about in his fabled documentary. (New film: America)  Is this another “bargaining point” in his struggles with Congress?   He drops this and gets another 100 billion for his lay-about brothers and sisters.   But what is incredible, what is hard to believe even now is that BHO would go on record with a unilateral dis-armament offer so sweeping, No scratch offer, he’s not even doing this to get something in return in international diplomacy.   (Unless it’s a dacha on the Black Sea from his Top)

 For those of you with a short-term memory problem, at the beginning of King Barry’s reign, American was at the zenith of military supremacy around the world.   We could do anything.   Soon we will not dare send our ships and men outside our own borders.   We’re “social spending” ourselves into impotence, irrelevancy, and collapse.   When the Chinese come to collect on their overdue loans and want to take possession, the next president will have no choice but to hand them the keys.

(what I wrote here I thought better of, of posting it not of thinking it)

Update: Maggie’s Notebook has an updated and more comprehensive story on our missile arsenal shutdown/draw-down but even she had not been able to find any Admiral or General willing to comment.   What a climate of fear stalks the halls of the Pentagon.

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