Posted on 08/25/2004 11:27:14 PM PDT by kattracks
While Sen. John Kerry continues his attempt to demonstrate his presidential bona fides by concentrating virtually exclusively on his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam in the late 1960s, it is instructive to examine the potentially destructive role he has played on the national-security front during his two decades in the Senate. Perhaps no issue offers more evidence of Mr. Kerry's foreign-policy follies than the matter of defending the American homeland against ballistic missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads.
The issue is particularly timely given that the first ground-based missile interceptor was installed on July 22 in an underground silo at a missile-defense complex at Fort Greely, Alaska. With Mr. Kerry's presidential fixation mired in the jungles of Vietnam, President Bush has just taken a huge step to confront the certain dangers of the 21st century. If voters are seeking evidence of visionary presidential leadership, they need look no further than Fort Greely.
Make no mistake: The initial deployment of that missile interceptor, which soon will be followed by others in Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during the first phase of a planned robust missile-defense system, represents a historic moment in military affairs. If Mr. Kerry had his way, President Reagan's vision of defense against nuclear ballistic-missile attack would have been destroyed in its infancy. As a freshman senator in 1985, Mr. Kerry sponsored an amendment to slash spending for Mr. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). As the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, his budget proposal has promised to "reduc[e] total expenditures on missile defense."
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The last paragraph leads to a new twist: "Senator Kerry was wrong on missile defense then and he is wrong now."
What do you know, when he's wrong, he doesn't waffle!
The SBV ads were the first act, they put his actual military service under the microscope.
The 1971 Senate testimony and the POW ads are the second act, showing the disastrous ramifications of his treasonous words in wartime.
The first two acts put Kerry's attitude toward the defense of America in the center stage, leading to the third and final act: his Senate career. A career of coddling communists and attempting to hamstring our military and intelligence agencies.
Kerry is going to be "on the defense over defense" from now until the election.
It ain't going to be pretty.
Thank you, Swift Boat Veterans.
The Democrats would prefer not to discuss Kerry's Vietnam history, his Hanoi Jane history, and his Senate history.
What's left? LOL
NORTH KOREA ..
His anti-American spots haven't changed.
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