Posted on 09/30/2004 11:22:49 PM PDT by dandelion
What is the biggest threat to the United States? According to John Kerry, it's not terrorism, but nuclear proliferation - and not just foreign weapons programs. He means OUR nuclear weapons programs...
LEHRER: If you are elected president, what will you take to that office thinking is the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States?
KERRY: ...Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense.
You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
Not this president. I'm going to shut that program down, and we're going to make it clear to the world we're serious about containing nuclear proliferation.
NOTHING speaks more clearly about the mindset of this candidate that THIS answer to THIS question. Kerry believes OUR weapons program is the biggest threat to the U.S. today - and that's what Kerry's going to shut down. Nothing in this debate compares to THIS statement for illuminating the choice between Bush, who believes that our enemy is terrorism - and Kerry, who believes that our enemy is our own weapons program. Kerry believes that our enemy is not Osama Bin Laden, or Saddam Hussein, but our own scientists, who are trying to develop weapons to win the War on Terror.
I don't recall our own weapons crashing into the World Trade Center - do you? But I do recall our own weapons hitting the target at Tora Bora. Which leads to a question which must be asked of John Kerry -
Why does he think that the single most serious threat to American Security is not the men who are trying to kill us, but the men who are trying to save us?
**The man has served notice that he is a clear & present danger to the security of the nation!**
But the sheeple don't know this yet!
KERRY:
And part of that leadership is sending the right message to places like North Korea.
Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense.
You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
TO SUM IT UP - Kerry asks "Why is it okay for US to have nuclear weapons but its not okay for North Korea (or the terrorists for that matter) to have them?"
Its one thing for some Liberal to say this. Its another thing for that Liberal to be the Presidnet of the United States.
This man is a danger to this country, and he must not be allowed to be in charge of anything.
I thought I was hearing things when he said that. I was hoping GW would bring up the previous administrations failures on NK.
Needless to say I had to have a drink or three after the debate.
No, you heard correctly my friend!
This one statement transcends political posturing & cheer leading for one's prefered candidate.
Seriously, this isn’t just rhetoric anymore... Kerry is EXTREMELY DANGEROUES!!!
He sure is. Why does he think we're researching bunker-busting nukes? It's because Iran is building nuclear weapons labs inside mountains where they can't be attacked with conventional bombs, and North Korea is building hardened missile silos within miles of their Chinese border so we will not attack the missiles with full-sized nukes. Kerry is such a fool on the issue of national security. He has not moved away from his ultra left wing anti-military position from the 1970s.
Sometimes we have to develop weapons that we hope to never use to give us a stronger negotiating position. When Iran and North Korea know we can destroy their nuclear facilities with small nuclear weapons (and without disturbing their neighbors), then these rogue states have to negotiate with us. Kerry is sending a clear signal that his election could be a catastrophic disaster for America.
I think though that when the President doesn't point out the clear conclusions we can reach about Kerry's statements, then the American people are more likely to reach those concluions on their own. This is the advantage of staying calm in a debate and quietly letting your opponent hang himself. When you don't point out all his mistakes then your opponent continues to make mistakes and the audience is allowed to draw its own conclusions, which are utlimately stronger conclusions because they are reached individually by each person.
I agree the President should have destroyed him on this. Equating us with the enemy and dismantling our weapons systems based on nothing but the hope NK will follow. Absolute insanity.
Bush should have asked Kerry what other weapons Kerry would have us throw away to make the terrorists happy. Man, I'd have never let Kerry off the mat for that one.
It is absolutely fair to draw the conclusion Kerry believes what you just said based on his comments in the debate tonight.
This damn well better be in ads tomorrow.
Clinton all over again... nuff said and enough that no way on earth I would vote for the man or the party.
I'm sure it will be beat to death on talk radio. Chamberlain is alive and well in 2004, and running for CIC of the good ole US of A.
John F*ckin' believes in unilateral disarmament. You have the Liberal Quadrivium: 1) Higher Taxes, 2) World Government, 3) Unilateral Disarmament and 4)Appeasement in John F*ckin's world view. Its one he's held his entire life and he's been on the WRONG SIDE of history ever since his Vietnam War Days.
I agree the President should have destroyed him on this.
Evertime I heard him say "U.N." or global it was like an alarm bell with me. It shows that he's never backed off of his statement long ago of "I'm an internationalist. I think we should only dispense troops at the order of the U.N."
bttt
Unilateral disarmament? Can anyone say "mentally unfit?"
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