Wednesday, August 18, 2004
"Who Doesn't Understand The Threats Of The 21st Century?"
This is a great response from the Kerry-Edwards campaign regarding President Bush's "new" appeal for a Star Wars missile defense shield.
Here are some clips. Be sure to read the rest and tell me how a missile defense system will keep a terrorist with a suitcase nuke out of the country...
May 2001 -- Bush Said "Most Urgent Threat" Was Ballistic Missiles.
Bush: "Most troubling of all, the list of these countries includes some of the World's least responsible states. Unlike the Cold War, today's most urgent threat stems not from thousands of ballistic missiles in the Soviet hands, but from a small number of missiles in the hands of these states, states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life. They seek weapons of mass destruction to intimidate their neighbors, and to keep the United States and other responsible nations from helping allies and friends in strategic parts of the world." (Bush, Address at the National Defense University, 5/1/01)
May 2001 - Kerry Said "Immediate Threat" was From Terrorists and "Non-State Actors."
Kerry: "But let me underscore that missile defense will do nothing to address what the Pentagon itself considers a much more likely and immediate threat to the American homeland from terrorists and from nonstate actors, who can quietly slip explosives into a building, unleash chemical weapons into a crowded subway, or send a crude nuclear weapon into a busy harbor." (Kerry, Speech on Senate Floor, 5/2/01)
Funny, I thought the Cold War being over was one of the reasons Bush gave for his hare-brained troop deployment scheme (You're welcome, Kim Jong-Il!!!). Why is that he would now look to resurrect a Cold War era scheme for his campaign?
Maybe it's because nothing else is working and they have nothing to run on...
Take a look at a side-by-side comparison of Kerry's website and Bush's website and tell me who's presenting their vision for the direction of America...
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