Is this the time to consider cutting missile defense?

'In 33 minutes or less, life as we know it in America could end. That's how long it would take for an enemy ballistic missile launched from the other side of the world to hit the United States."

According to the Heritage Foundation -that's the frighteningly short time-it would take an I.C.B.M launched from the other side of the world to reach the United states. and if that's not enough of a mind blower they go on to state... "within just one year of such an attack, 70 percent to 90 percent of Americans would be dead from starvation and disease." This would be the effect of the electro-magnetic pulse of a nuclear weapon.

That's according to the article" "What Americans need to know about missile defense:We're not there yet. At heritage .org.

Considering this information, along with the facts that Tehran and Pyongyang are both trying to develop missiles capable of reaching this country, it is a dereliction of duty for the President and Congress to be thinking about cutting missile defense. But that's exactly what our President as well as the liberals in congress are trying to do.

According to Heritage the Obama administration is proposing to cut over "1billion dollars".

Now in the grand scheme of things that sounds like a small amount. But what price would you set on the lives of your family and friends or the city or town you live in.

It seems to me that liberals often have a naive view of the world. Ronald Reagan told us that peace is obtained through strength not weakness. Time and again weakness or the perception of it has lead to military and terrorist attacks.

World War II is a shining example of how weakness on the part of Europe and the United States led to war. Or consider Sept. 11 2001 a perception by -Al-Quada- of American weakness or unwillingness to react to terror led to the deaths of thousands, and still reverberates in Afghanistan and Iraq today.

They also fail to realize that we have Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro to our south. Both theses regimes make no bones about their dislike for us. And Chavez seems to be involved in a one nation arms race to be the strongest power in Central America.

And what happens if one of theses rogue regimes were to hand off to or help Al-Quada airburst a nuclear bomb over the U.S. its possible that most of us would die. the pulse would take out all of our sophisticated electronics and effectively push us back hundreds if not thousands of years.

I don't no about you, but i would rather have more anti-missile defense not less.

Freedomlover.

North Korean missile demonstration validates U.S. need for more missile defense

As Ronald Reagan once said about Jimmy Carter during a debate "Well there he goes again". Well here goes Kim ill Jong again.

Once more over the July 4 weekend the megalomaniac in Pyongyang-and his thugs in the military- launched another provocative round of missile launches.

As I've said before this lunatic is shooting off missiles like a kid shooting off fireworks on the fourth of July! Whats worse the regime in Pyongyang shot off 5 short range missiles on Thursday capable of reaching anywhere within South Korea,couple this with recent deployments of missiles near the border with the South, and it would appear that Pyongyang is on the path to war.

In addition, the Korean state news agency puts out threats and denunciations of the leader of South Korea on a regular basis. The left say's Kim Ill only does these things for world attention. They liken it to a child acting out. Well in my neck of the woods we generally take spoiled children to the woodshed when they get out of line. Maybe it's time to take this rogue regime to the woodshed so to speak!

This guy will not understand or respect talk, talk, and more talk. The only thing this nut will understand is force. Meanwhile the president and the present congress mull cutting missile defense. This boggles my mind. At a time like this when two member of the - "Axis of Evil" - are working jointly to advance their nuclear and missile programs we certainly don't need to cut back on any of these programs, in fact, if anything they should be getting increased funding.

Bottom line here is that history should have taught us that having a weakened defense will only provoke people and regimes, like Kim Ill, and Iran, to even more provocative acts, and perhaps even acts of aggression against us or our allies. I strongly believe that it may well be time for regime change in Pyongyang and Tehran!

The Freedomlover.