KERRY HAS A PLAN!
DUMP OUR NUKES!
Posted on 06/02/2004 12:06:00 AM PDT by kattracks
On the same day the U.S. government announced that terrorist Jose Padilla sought to obtain nuclear materials and detonate a dirty nuclear weapon in the U.S., Sen. John Kerry said the key to U.S. security is to unilaterally stop building nuclear weapons. Touted as the major national security speech of his campaign so far, the presumptive Democrat nominee said that as his first order of business as president he will abandon plans to build new nuclear weapons, including “bunker-busting” nuclear weapons advocated by the Bush administration.Kerry's statement for a unilateral U.S. nuclear arms moratium also coincided with the U.N. inspection agency's announcement that Iran continues to procure material to make nuclear weapons.
“As president, I will stop this administration's program to develop a whole new generation of bunker-busting nuclear bombs,” Kerry told a crowd of supporters in West Palm Beach, Fla. “This is a weapon we don't need. And it undermines our credibility in persuading other nations. What kind of message does it send when we're asking other countries not to develop nuclear weapons but developing new ones ourselves?”
But military experts say the new weapons are absolutely vital in the war on terror, as terrorist nations are building both command posts and nuclear weapons so deep underground the Pentagon does not have weapons to adequately strike these potential targets.
In late May, the House passed legislation that provided $27 million for research into the proposed high-yield Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, better known as the “bunker buster.”
The bill offered funding for new weapons research centered at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia weapons labs in California and an additional $9 million for research into other new thermonuclear weapons.
Though the U.S. has dramatically reduced its nuclear arsenal since the end of the Cold War, America's example has not been followed by other nations.
Russia, China and other rogue states have continued to maintain or develop new weapons of mass destruction, including thermonuclear devices.
During his speech Kerry acknowledged that despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, “... Russia still has nearly 20,000 nuclear weapons and enough nuclear material to produce 50,000 more Hiroshima-sized bombs.” The Russian nuclear arsenal is more than double the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
Kerry stated that one of the key elements of his plan is to “end the nuclear weapons programs in states like North Korea and Iran.”
At the same time Kerry called for a ban on new U.S. weapons, he offered little in specifics on how he would deal with North Korea and Iran if they failed to comply in stopping their WMD programs.
Kerry blamed the Bush administration for being too “fixated on Iraq while the nuclear dangers from North Korea have multiplied.” Kerry also said, “Let me say it plainly: A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable.”
He claimed that the Bush administration has given North Korea time to “have made enough new fuel to make six to nine nuclear bombs.”
Kerry's defense plan "PLEASE DON'T HURT ME".
What a total fool.
Send this moron to China to personally disarm the Chinese than we can talk about the US disaraming. The idiot is dangerous !
Let me see if I have this right.
The best way to disarm the enemy Islamofascists is the unilateral disarmament of America. Brilliant, just brilliant.
He suffers from "dementia". No other explanation. No one could be that dumb without an excuse.
"He suffers from "dementia". No other explanation. No one could be that dumb without an excuse."
You're forgetting a far more plausible explanation. Deliberate treason.
Qwinn
Okay...read THIS!
On bended knee..."please SIR,do not hurt me".
Not surprising considering his voting record on defense procurments.
No surprise about his position, it's been the same since the Cold War, but who's letting him talk about it?
This idiot needs to stop thinking about Vietnam (he was in Vietnam, y'know) and start thinking about WWII. What a retard!
The kind of message that says 'We will kick your ass if you so much as look at us wrong!'
Of course, we also send the kind of messages that say 'Cooperate with us and you'll have peace and prosperity!'
He just another anti-American Democrat.
As President this will create the biggest boom in bunker building the world will ever see.
Well, you know it's the Dems Plan to destroy America. Just like Kyoto is gonna save the world by making the US follow ridiculous environmental regulations that no one else has to follow.
I have been waiting for this one. They still see the world through the Cold War and as communists seek our destruction.
This is a signal to the future Saddam Husseins of the world.
Build bunkers strong enough and you will be invincible. Do whatever you please and the U.S. can't/won't stop you.
Wow. I'm beginning to feel safer already, Mr. Kerry.
He has truly fallen off his rocker.
He's been taking lessons from Gore and Dean.
“Let me say it plainly: A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable.”
So Kerry's response is to cut back our nuke programs and hand Iraq over to the U.N.???
He claimed that the Bush administration has given North Korea time to “have made enough new fuel to make six to nine nuclear bombs.”
So it's, like, send 'em more food to fatten up their army in exchange for a promise not to build any (more) nukes? (Hans Blix can head the UN inspection team)
Yes, but make no mistake about it, this fool could very well get votes from millions of other fools on Nov 2 and become the next POTUS. Scary.......
“This is a weapon we don't need. And it undermines our credibility in persuading other nations. What kind of message does it send when we're asking other countries not to develop nuclear weapons but developing new ones ourselves?”
I see his taking a page from the playbooks of Messers. Baldwin and Chamberlain, who wanted to do nothing to make Hitler mad. Appeasement does not work.
John al-Qerry is truly dangerous, and America's very life is on the line if he gains the presidency. The guy is a commie sympathizer, a fellow-traveler, an anti-American turncoat who deserves the gulag, not the oval office.
Here we have in capsule form the two reasons why we cannot allow another Leftist to be elected to the office of President of our country.
How could a career politician have any clue what the military needs or doesn't need? Bush defers to the military in every question involving need, while Lefties "know better".
Secondly, if any lesson can be derived from the events of the last century, and of course, 9-11, it is that our good intentions have no value whatsoever in dealing with other nations. Can anyone name an instance where concessions have done anything but embolden our enemies?
Just as Michael Berg felt that his good intentions would shield him from harm in Iraq, Kerry will position our country for a similar fate with his delusion that concessions and good intentions have value in foreign policy.
Better Red than dead
oldie but goodie.
Note how nicely it fits with Kerry. You can even hear him shout it as he tosses his medals over the white house fence if you listen quietly.
reminds me of another oldie but goody (and my fav):
(is that un-pc now?)
ping for later
Kerry is simply a dangerous anti-war hippy. His stupidity has been tried before, by Carter, and his weakness ushered in the era of Islamic extremism and terrorism.
I thought the Unilateral Disarmament bandwagon had rusted away in the liberal back lot sometime in Reagan's term.
If JFrenchK wins and gets a Democrat Congress we will definitely look wistfully at BC.
BC accomplished some momentous things insofar as furthering the domestic dissolution of American Culture but was prevented from laying on the worst economic damage and there were no foreign policy disasters serious enough to threaten the existence of the Republic and we did squeeze Welfare Reform from him. Kerry with a Crat Congress could and probably would raise America to new heights of defeat and failure and bring down the rapacious capitalist economy at the same time.
Send this moron to China to personally disarm the Chinese then we can talk about the US disarming. The idiot is dangerous and don't let him back.
No we don't need to do any disarming whether the Chinese do or not, especially the bunker busters.
I think French just dug out one of his old early 70s notebooks.
Fools' suffrage . . . The Framers made a big mistake there. Why let the inmates run the asylum? Makes me ill.
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