Posted on 09/25/2004 9:24:08 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Zell's Zeal And Kerry's "Defenselessness" By Paul M. Weyrich | September 20, 2004 Kerry said in this flyer: "If we don't need the MX and the B-1 or these other weapons systems, there is no excuse for casting even one vote for unnecessary weapons of destruction and as your Senator I never will." Send this page to a friend Format this page for printing
Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) , an ex Marine, is angry that the party he spent a lifetime helping to build, has gone so far to the left that it is barely recognizable. Miller attacked the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry (D-MA), in terms that no Republican could dare to do.
Miller gave a litany of the weapons systems that Kerry voted against in his two decades in the United States Senate.
The Kerry apologists, who were all over the media the morning after the Miller speech, tried to suggest that when a Senator votes against a bill containing a weapons system it may be because he has some other problem with the bill that has nothing to do with the weapons system. Therefore, you see, Senator Kerry really isn't against all of those weapons after all. You have to understand these votes in context, so they told us.
Nice try. However, my Internet angel Alex Mulkern unearthed a campaign flyer from Lt. Governor John Kerry's campaign for the United States Senate in 1984. It is priceless. In this flyer, Kerry says of the Reagan defense buildup "the biggest defense buildup since World War II has not given us a better defense. Americans feel threatened by the prospect of war". Kerry goes on to say that "...our national priorities become more and more distorted as the share of our country's resources devoted to human needs diminishes."
Then Kerry suggests there is a better alternative. He lists weapons system after weapons system that he would cancel and the amount of money that would be "saved" by canceling them. Among those which would have been put on the chopping block back in 1984 are as follows:
The MX Missile. Cancel. Savings: $5 Billion. The B-1 Bomber. Cancel. Savings: $8 Billion Anti-satellite system. Cancel. Savings: $99 Million Star Wars. Cancel. Savings: $1.3 Billion Tomahawk Missile. Reduce by 50%. Savings: $294 Million AH-64 Helicopter. Cancel. Savings: $1.4 Billion Division Air Defense. Cancel. Savings: $638 Million The Patriot Air Defense Missile. Cancel. Savings: $1.1 Billion Aegis Air Defense. Cancel. Savings: $400 Million Battleship reactivation. Cancel. Savings: $453 Million AV 88 vertical take off and landing plane. Cancel. Savings: $1.0 Billion F-15 fighter aircraft. Cancel. Savings: $2.3 Billion F-14A fighter aircraft. Cancel. Savings: $1.0 Billion F-14B fighter aircraft. Cancel. Savings: $286 Million Phoenix air-to-air missile. Cancel: Savings: $431 Million Sparrow air-to-air missile. Cancel. Savings: $264 Million
So there you have it. Did Zell Miller exaggerate? Before John Kerry was even elected Senator he was calling for the elimination of some of the most effective weapons systems we have.
Kerry said in this flyer: "If we don't need the MX and the B-1 or these other weapons systems, there is no excuse for casting even one vote for unnecessary weapons of destruction and as your Senator I never will."
He got that right. This was back in 1984. Mikhail Gorbachev had just come to power. It was Gorbachev and his generals who concluded that they could not keep up with weapons development in the USA, especially the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), and that is one of the reasons that the Soviets threw in the towel. Imagine, 20 years later, if the Kerry view had prevailed, we would still be facing a menacing super power known as the Soviet Union. If the Soviets didn't have to compete with all of those sophisticated weapons systems, they would be fighting on to this day. The Baltics would still be Soviet Republics, as would Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia. The Berlin Wall would likely still be up. Poland and the satellite nations would not be free. Get the picture?
Zell Miller, in his litany of weapons systems which Senator Kerry voted against, said he did by no means exhaust the list. He said the list went on and on. True enough because in the past couple of decades we have developed many more systems which Senator Kerry could be against -- weapons systems which have made this nation the only remaining super power.
I am not one who believes in giving the Pentagon everything it wishes. The Pentagon is a bureaucratic structure just as much as Health and Human Services is. There is as much waste and abuse in the Pentagon as there is in other areas of government. Had Senator Kerry gone after waste and duplication and other areas of misfeasance in the Pentagon he might well have served his nation well. But in opposing every weapons system we have produced since the middle 1980s, Senator Kerry displays a glaring weakness -- one which is fair game as we get into the serious part of the campaign.
No wonder the Democrats are now trying to say that Senator Miller is mentally unbalanced. They can't have voters examine what Kerry said. If they do they will find the weakness Zell Miller spoke about and they may well come to the same conclusion the Senator has come to, namely the protection of his family comes before his political party.
http://www.aim.org/guest_column/1946_0_6_0_C/
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he still wants to cut $50 B from the Missile Defense System
Careful trumpeting this. My understanding of the process is votes are simply taken on the over all budget, not particular items, such as the F-14 (RIP). Technically he did vote against the funding which eventually developed many of these technologies, but as usual, Kerry has left himself some wiggle room.
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Not this s--t again---here is another newbie (9/24/2004) trying to 'shoot down' Zell Miller and the "truth"---we are 'infested' with them, it seems
Yea know folks, maybe it is time for some Special Forces,
or SOC Marines or SEALs, lets not forget our Delta Force..
to get a team togther, covert of course, grab the Lurch and TERRRREEEZZAAAA and stuff them into a MX missile head and shot them into outer space!
They really would be serving the best interests of both parties, as well as the American public. OK. Have them
throw in a case of really expensive/excellant wine from say Romanee Conti ....whatever so TERRREEZZAAAA can at least enjoy the ride as Lurch pokes his long boney finger in you know what prior to re-entry.
Lurch just has to go......far.............away...........
Surely Zill Miller would stand smartly at attention next to our president as he pinned the MOH medal on each in the team.
YW: "He’s an angry man with a spiteful agenda."
Well maybe he expected more from his party that years back where not a bunch of left wing whackos. NO! Zill Miller
was a Marine and will remain a Marine till he is in the grave. Marines watch each others backs, Marines take their code of duty very seriousely. They are serious people with a clear mission. Zill Miller watched this snot faced sneaky bastard get away with treason, and a fluffy useless 19 years in office. And he just cannot take it anymore.
He will retired next year from serving his country. He most probably is a man of integrity, decency, courage, and a deep felt commitement to providing America with honest and fair government. He has watch this low life for years
as he operated in highly sneaky ways, and now feels it is his last chance to try to stop this traitor from obtaining his covetted goal all these years of becoming president of the United States not to serve honorably, we know he is not capable of that based on his record....NO BRAINER STUPID....
but to gain the ultimate power to feed his sick ego.
That is the way it is buddy!
Zell doesn't need nor could he as an honest man go to his grave in the Service of what the Democrat Party has today come to represent!
They gave him the opportunity to speak the truth and he'll retire with honour and a clear conscience instead of being a liberal socialist Dem.
Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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This is why the media never brings up Kerry's Senate record. He never has to answer questions about it, or his anti American consorting with the enemy activities.
I don't think he's an angry man with a spiteful agenda at all, nor is he the only democrat who is disgusted with his party these days.
Zell's welcome at my house anytime. I appreciate his service as a marine and for his service in public office. But, I really, really, appreciate that speech he gave at the Republican Convention. Best damn speech I've heard in my lifetime.
Because he's such a compulsive liar, Kerry will exploit every little nuance of language to hoodwink people. Notice how this weasely opportunist uses the words "weapons of destruction" to submlinally invoke the more ominous phrase "weapons of mass destruction" in a crafty attempt to justify his constant voting against the defense of America. Kerry wants us to think of our national defense as being akin to Saddam's former cache of WMD.
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