Sarah Palin and US National Security
By clrumfelt
@clrumfelt (5597)
Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
October 31, 2008 11:24am CST
Here, in a question and answer format, are some amazing details about our next vice president Sarah Palin on national security qualifications. This should make all her detractors feel better about her leadership.
Question: What is America's first line of missile
interceptor defense that protects the entire United States?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska
National Guard.
Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on
permanent active duty?Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska
National Guard
Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th
Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on
highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter
terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified
security rating than either candidate of the Democrat Party?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
According to the Washington Post, she first met with
McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used
to keeping secrets. She can be entrusted with our national security,
because she already is.
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9 responses
@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Sorry, but many of your questions have nothing to do with Palin:
"...the governor has no command authority overseas -- or anywhere in the United States other than Alaska, says Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the service commander of the Alaska National Guard.
"When members of the National Guard are federalized, they work for the president," Campbell said Wednesday. "It's not just overseas. They could be federalized to go to other states, or they could even be federalized in the state."
Occasions in which Palin does retain command authority over the 4,200-member Alaska National Guard are whenever the guard responds to in-state natural disasters and civic emergencies, said Campbell, who also serves as commissioner of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs." -- http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515499.html
The Anchorage Daily News points out that Palin only has any authority over the Alaskan National Guard when it comes to intrastate matters--this is supposed to bolster the perception of her national security experience, how?
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
31 Oct 08
As the Gov. of Alaska, the Pentagon and probably even the White House gave Gov. Palin the proper liason briefings and kept her informed as a matter of courtesy and increased military efficiency as to the command, deployment, and logistical support of the Alaska National Guard unit in question. This did and does result in the Gov. of Alaska being much more informed and prepared than many other Governors as to matters of national of defense. The Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, before he became President, had much less experience than does Governor Palin in matters of national defense.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Simply untrue? Because you can not find an internet reference to it? I hope you really do not believe that just because routine matters of military administration are not mentioned on the internet that it means they did not happen. It is mundane ordinary military everyday activity to keep the Governor informed of what is going on with their National Guards that have been federalized. This has to be done. It is a practical reality that the Pentagon has to play nice with Governors. Governors have a lot of power beyond the formal power the President has to federalize the Guard.
BTW: I found no reference either to the DA FORM 2406's filed by the Alaska National Guard, but I'll bet they did.
Jeesh.... do you really dislike Gov. Palin to such an extent that you have to challenge everything?
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@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Simply untrue. Palin was never briefed on a single issue of national security dealt with in any capacity by the Alaskan National Guard. At least, my searching has found no such briefing--can you cite a specific example of a national security issue addressed by the Guard that Palin was briefed on?
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@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
31 Oct 08
i do not think that she will make a good vice president. if that is the case any onewould do. once a person has a position, he or she gets a set of advisors who decide what is the priority. US national security is at the most a national waste of precious resources. what can be done with a dollar, US ends up by paying a billion dollar. that is what all this national security is all about. people like palin are controlled by the defense contractors and money bags. they just dance to thier tunes. precisely what happened with few of those senators who listened to wall street lobbyists to get those investments banks off the regulatory radars and controls. nothing more. keeping secrets, who knows she might even hold back vital info concerning security threats for personal gains.
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
Palin certainly has more experience with national security than Obama and Biden. John McCain, with his 23 year history in the US military is certainly well qualified to look into national security and military spending and find ways to eliminate the unnecessary. Part of Obama's plan for eliminating "unnecessary" spending on national security is disarmament of a lot of our defense, as an "example" to the rest of the world. That would make us vulnerable to our enemies, and I don't trust Obama to be at the helm of the national security of the USA, nor do I believe he has demonstrated any amount of patriotism in his life that we should be willing to trust him to make any kind of national security or defense decision for us. His naivete in these matters shows in the things he has said as a candidate.
@thedogshrink (1266)
• United States
1 Nov 08
And that is another reason to vote for McCain. He has already trimmed that cost that suddenly increases when the US government is the customer. And as President, he would trim it even more. That is one of his campaign promises, a part of his platform, and his record shows that he really would do it.
It sounds like Palin has a bigger role and more understanding of defense and national security than Obama or Biden, and you do NOT get a higher security status unless you have a NEED TO KNOW. That is the basis on which a person is even investigated for a security clearance: NEED TO KNOW. If she has no function in that area she would not have a need to know and would not be given any higher clearance.
Also, the President certainly does not directly command the troops either!
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Thanks, for the info. I'm ashamed to admit I did not know these things already. I hope the people who were so quick to ridicule Gov Palin over her national security qualifications feel properly chagrined.
BTW: For those who don't get it, this means Gov. Palin is several times more qualified to become Commander in Chief than was Bill Clinton as Governor of Arkansas.
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
I was hoping this information would at least make sense to the closed-minded detractors of Sarah Palin. But if you read the rest of the responses you will see that anything good about her is still falling on deaf ears. In my view their willingness to choose as the next administration two people who have zilch national security experience, and even want to disarm America as a part of their defense spending cuts, is not only naive, it is dangerous.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
31 Oct 08
If America were attacked, it would be through Alaska. The Communist Chinese could go up from Asia, also when the Soviet Union was alive, then the Soviets would have been able to cross over the Aleutian Islands and thereby enter the States using Alaska as a launching pad. Therefore with that knowledge that Alaska is vulnerable to an attack, Sarah Palin is well qualified as far as national security goes. then Alaska is the first means of defense
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
Alaska is more vulnerable than the continental states to interference. For one thing, it is remote. Also, there is a lot of undeveloped terrority there and an attack could be set up almost secretly there if the aggressors did it right. I know a lot of countries would just love to take over the Alaskan pipeline and begin lobbing missiles at the USA from a base they set up there. To think Alaska isn't a vulnerable area in terms of national security isn't being realistic.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
31 Oct 08
How come the last time we were attacked they came from Florida not Alaska?
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Sorry, I wouldn't trust her to babysit my cats because basically I don't think she can be trusted. Call it a gut feeling, female intuition or whatever you'd like but I'm with the rest of the 59% who feel she's not qualified to be V.P. It's not jealousy or hatred, she's simply in way over her head. Personally I don't like her attitude or agree with her on any of the issues but I'm not considering that when I say I don't think she's qualified.
Annie
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
And you believe Barack Obama and Joe Biden have more experience and trustworthiness than Sarah Palin? Sorry, but my gut feeling and women's intuition is completely opposite than yours. Your ideas on this just don't agree with the facts.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Sorry doesn't make me feel any better. Thanks for trying though.
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@jend80 (2071)
• United Kingdom
1 Nov 08
if you're going to cut & paste a forwarded email try removing the frd code first.
@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
What's an fdr code? I forward whatever I think will be helpful, whatever the source, after I check it on snopes.
@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
I have come to believe the MSM and pollsters are a bunch of liars who are only going to report what fits their agenda. Casting Sarah Palin in a positive light
would lessen their ability to manipulate the situation. The truth has a way of
doing that.
@redhotpogo (4398)
• United States
1 Nov 08
Sarah Palin has been dealing with security threats for years in her political career. From hungry polar bears, to crazy eskimoes, and lets not forget the mating seals. Haven't seen any mating seals in Alaska? That's because Sarah Palin knows how to keep Alaska safe from mating seals. And should the middle east decide to mate, she will know just what to do.
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@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
1 Nov 08
Thanks for your response redhot. I think it has a lot of merit. After all, even King David killed the lion and the bear as a shepherd before he was ready to be king of Israel.
