Yup, this decision was bound to piss off the belligeranti. Tough for them.

Romney received a ministerial deferment from the military draft while in France, and three years of deferments while a student. When he became eligible for military service in 1970, his high number in the annual draft lottery meant he would not be drafted.[9]

This punk is going to talk about defense. . , sheeeeet!

Typo in the headline, Blue.

I hope the Mittster is so gosh durned upset that he will run in ‘12 … can’t have enough comedy on TeeVee …

Now is a good time to point out the utter failure of RomneyCare (aka the MaxTax Beta) in his former home state.

Great catch!

What is “mitt” really. A catcher’s type? Is it short for “Mitten” Is he going to show how much more he knows than that pesky perky ex governor from Alaska? Fluff talks. It never says anything.

Won’t be long till the trolls show up…

they always do.

So Romney of Bain Capital Management has a problem with fewer dollars going to munitions? So much for Romney’s long-term strategic vision… He’s captive to the status quo in a big way.

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Never have seen a military expenditure they can’t fall in love with.

Besides knocking on doors for Jesus in France, what Foreign Policy credentials does Mitt Romney hold?

We’re fighting a hot war in Afghanistan, shooting missiles into Pakistan, and are still occupying Iraq, which we’ve ground into dust…

Why does Obama hate the Poles?

Obama won’t protect the Europeans, but he continues to wage war in the Middle East.

Why does Obama hate brown people?

/satire

Why are chickenhawks always cheerleaders for war and more war?

The Olympics!

But who will shed a tear for the poor contractors?

Didn’t he also take his dog to Canada? On the car roof?

It’s a lot easier to be pro-war if you’ve never actually seen anyone get his face blown off.

Such a manly hawk!

Mitt — are you undoing your old man’s ‘brainwashing’ from lo those many years ago. (You remember, Mitt. You were safely tucked away with deferments.)

I do recall Mitt using his poor dog as a shield. It demonstrated his emotion-free crisis management.

Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.

Then Romney put his boys on notice: He would be making predetermined stops for gas, and that was it…

As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ”Dad!” he yelled. ”Gross!” A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.

Here’s a rhetorical question:

Why does the opinion of Mitt Romney have any legitimacy whatsoever? Just sayin’.

Because he’s a soulless corporate hack, and therefore a Serious Thinker.

Does this mean we can refer to him as turd top.

awww. Raytheon pays Mitt to say things like that.

The Czech people (as shown in numerous opinion polls) do not want the X-Band radar on their soil.

And the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff UNANIMOUSLY recommended that this BMD plan be canceled.

But apparently Willard Romney knows better than the people who live there and the Generals.

US tax dollars to defend the French?

Another talking point self-immolates.

-G

Well, Jeez, even the certifiably insane teabagging Republican base rejcted his “serious thinking” in the prezy primary.

Of course, the fact that the missile shield does not actually work is of no consequence as far as defence goes. In at least 40 years of testing variations on the theme, we have never managed one clean hit under operational conditions, as near as I know. Lots of fixed tests–oversized targets rigged with beacons to attract missile guidance and such–but no realworld hits.

So the defense proposition is that we spend zillions to defend against Iranian missiles and nuclear weapons that do not currently exist using a weapon that does not work. In the process, we rile up Russia and maybe China, both of which have nuclear weapons and lots of working missiles.

So Mitt is saying that we would be safer having two actual enemies with thousands of nukes and intercontinental ballistic missiles than we would be having one enemy that might possibly have a medium range missle and a couple of nukes sometime in the next decade?

New talking point.

Mitt Romney rode out Vietnam by eating crossaints and ogling French girls under the Eiffel Tower.

-G

They didn’t reject him because he was a soulless right-wing corporate hack. They like soulless right-wing corporate hacks. They rejected him because he’s a Mormon. But they aren’t bigots.

After Obama agreed to cancel the missile sheild in Eastern Europe, based on a face saving “finding” that the Iranians were not as far advanced in long-range missile technology as had first been thought, and that a more immediate concern was the Iranian mid-range missile capabilities, the Russian President surprisingly announced that Russia would be open to some discussion of increased sanctions against Iran, so long as the Russians could make sure that they didn’t come off looking too two-faced. The new anti-missile system is being established in Israel and possibly Turkey and at a Russian base in the Caucuses. This wasn’t a caving-in or a display of weakness by the Obama Administration, this was brilliant statesmanship and diplomacy, a concept totally foreign to the reichwing yahoos.

How much money is Mittard getting from the contractors who build the Reagan-era “star wars” defense boondoggle? Or is this Mittly trying to show he’s got some “foreign policy” chops on a non-issue involving defense?

Billions for useless defense spending (well, any defense spending), no money for health care. Sounds logical, and OH so republican.

Why are chickenhawks always cheerleaders for war and more war?

Because there are always other people’s children to send off to foreign countries (numerous times it seems) to meet the natives and kill them.

Heh. I knew I’d be corrected on that the moment I hit “submit”. Of course it’s important to be soulless Christian corporate hack. How silly of me.

WHAT?! Obama didn’t go with his gut?! Sheesh, is that any way to conduct foreign policy?

I consider it my sworn duty to be as predictably pedantic as possible.

Billions for defense, nothing for health insurance. Sounds constitutional.

The one thing on which Obama has held firm is his desire to make the world a nuclear-weapons-free place. He is as serious as a heart attack about getting this done. The big test will be whether he can get Israel to reduce the 500-plus nuke stockpile that it won’t even officially admit it has. (It took Mordechai Vanunu to spill the beans on that little secret.)

Not to mention absolutely, alluringly, alliterative.

Also.

OT – Chuck Todd reports that Snowe, Ben Nelson, and Lieberweasel seem to be digging The Baucus Plan…

Digging its grave? No? I’m shocked.

of course, nelson and the lieberfuck would. it’s a perfect for their worldview that the right-center rules the world. or at least their little corner of it.

Neither the Obama Administration nor the Russians are eager to experience the fall-out of an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities, so this move provides some additional assurances to the Israelis (the anti-missile system placed in Israel actually works just fine, and can detect objects launched that are no bigger than a baseball, and coordinate anti-missile defenses at a range of about 4,700 miles – pretty neat stuff!)The Russians want to continue doing business with Iran, but they aren’t anxious to see them with a nuclear weapons capability either. This diplomacy furthers the interests of just about everyone other than the Iranian regime and the corporate manufacturers of the canceled Eastern European anti-missile shield. I just hope that all the rest of the pieces of this strategic diplomacy plan come together.

Any of Willard’s offspring serving in the military yet and what lesson does that teach?

I had forgotten about the “Who Let The Dogs Out” moment. Also, at the end of the video, Mitt congratulates the baby on his “bling bling”.

owing to his placement of family dog to roof of car for cross country road trip, I believe it should be “mutt” romney

I know it’s just a sundry me too on his part

but it wouldn’t hurt to know about any Bain Capital defense related holdings

When a Soldier Makes it Home, Arlo

Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don’t know too much
There’s just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell

And there won’t be any victory parades
For those that’s coming back
They’ll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home

Funny, this verse was about the Russians!

The threat assesment has changed, so the missle defense plan has to change too. Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said

“The threats now rest in short- and medium-range missiles, not long-range ones. The American side decided this was the most serious threat and this is their reaction.”

That Willard failed to mention that the missle defense system is for ICBMs means it’s all just Republic campaign rhetoric.

Golly, I wonder what Michele Bachmann thinks about it?