Armed Forces: 2009 Archives

Obama has slashed defense spending at a time of growing peril. North Korea and Iran are both determined to menace the U.S. and the world with nuclear-armed missiles. China is building a modern navy to rival the U.S. at a furious pace.

Mitt Romney says the Adminisration is putting the country in grave danger.

June 1, 2009
Romney: President putting country in jeopardy
Posted: 09:07 AM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

Romney will deliver a speech focused on missile defense on Monday.'
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Mitt Romney, eyeing a run at the presidency in 2012, is taking another step in fleshing out his foreign policy portfolio with a Monday speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation on the topic of defense spending.

According to excerpts of the speech provided to CNN, Romney will call the Obama administration's plan to trim more than $1 billion from missile defense programs a "grave miscalculation" that will put America at risk, especially given North Korea's nuclear provocations.

Romney says that Obama should push for "comprehensive, regime-crippling sanctions" against North Korea and "immediately reverse his recent decisions and strongly support completing our ballistic missile defense system."

In the speech, entitled "The Care of Freedom," Romney will also call on the administration to increase the modernization budget by $50 billion per year and to lock in total defense budgets at no less than four percent of GDP. But the military budget has been endangered, Romney argues, by the administration's domestic spending programs.