Does anyone remember Barack Obama's great promise
of the campaign of 2012? He did not make a promise to America nor to
Americans. He did not make a promise to fellow politicians. Unlike so many of
his promises, he is keeping this one. His promise was to Vladimir Putin of
Russia. What is Obama doing to keep his promise to Putin? Everyone remembers
the hot mike incident in 2012 when Barack Obama pleaded with Russian President
Dmitri Medvedyev to give him time until the election. After the election, he
promised Vladimir Putin, through Medvedyev, he would be more "flexible."
Now we have seen this flexibility.
Barack Obama is going to spend almost $700 million
dollars of taxpayer money to buy Russian helicopters for the Afghan Air Force.
But wait. Just like those TV commercials, this gets better. When Congress
passed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, it had an interesting
provision. Congress included, as a part of that law a prohibition on the
United States buying helicopters from Rosoboronexport, the Russian
manufacturer of the Mi-17 helicopter.
Unfortunately as always happens, when such laws are
passed, Congress always gives the Regime an escape hatch. The law stated that
Obama could buy from Rosoboronexport if the Secretary of Defense certified it
was in the interest of National Security. And of course, the Secretary of
Defense, Chuck Hagel , a man committed to destroying the US military
immediately signed off on that certification. Where do we even start with this
one?
Congress is outraged over this with Senators and
Representatives from both parties writing letters about this. Of course, this
is Congress' fault for allowing a law to be written with such an escape hatch.
More importantly, Americans need to be asking just what the hell the Obama
Regime is doing.
Why are we spending $700 million dollars with a
Russian arms manufacturer ? Why are we even giving the Afghans
these helicopters?
If we are going to give them helicopters, which we
really shouldn't, then why not give them American made helicopters and put
Americans to work?
if we are going to give the Afghans Russian
helicopters, the ones we are giving them are an old Cold War design. There are
hundreds of used MI-17 helicopters floating around the world. Why are we
paying to give the Afghans brand new helicopters?
In the era of the Sequester, isn't there something
better we can do with $700 million? American Medicare cancer patients are
being turned away from hospitals and are being denied life saving treatment
because of budget cuts. The American military is being gutted to the point of
ineffectiveness because of budget cuts.
Or consider this. The United States Air Force is
grounding 17 squadrons because of $591 million dollars in budget cuts. Our Air
Force is not able to do its mission because it lacks the money to fly but we
have the money to give Afghanistan $700 million dollars in Russian
helicopters.
And this is where Barack Obama thinks we should
spend our money? Most people reading this story will not have heard about it.
Why?
Because the Obama Propaganda Media is moving in
lock step to make sure there is no bad news that might damage Obama's
presidency.This is a story that should damage him and outrage every American.
The only way we will ever stop Obama is if the
American people know what he is doing.
Bob Lowe
Retired USAF/VETS
Support our Military
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