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Kerry, On American Nuclear Weapons: "I'm Going to Shut That Program Down"
Debate Transcript | 10/01/04 | Becki Snow

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...

DEBATE TRANSCRIPT

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?


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: debates; disarm; firstdebate; kerry; kerryforeignpolicy; nuclear; terror; weapons
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To: libs_kma

That "internationalist" stuff is scary. If we used our military as the UN dicates, we would be spread around the world on pointless "peacekeeping" missions while OBL and Saddam would be building the WMD to destroy us. Kerry tries hard to hide it, but he's ultra left-wing on national security policy. He wants to cede de facto control of the US military to the Europeans and all the thugs and tyrants who run the corrupt 3rd world countires in the UN. He's not qualified to be a US senator, and certainly not qualifed to be President.


41 posted on 10/01/2004 5:01:26 AM PDT by carl in alaska (Throw deep........you're already in the fourth quarter.)
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To: dandelion

bttt


42 posted on 10/01/2004 5:22:53 AM PDT by mentor2k
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To: CalRepublican

I agree. Bush should have blown him up on this and I could not believe he let it go. Huge opportunity missed.


43 posted on 10/01/2004 5:26:10 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: dandelion

Most important thread on the forum this morning. A must read. The American people need to wake up and realize the hell this man would create.


44 posted on 10/01/2004 5:30:43 AM PDT by Sabatier
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To: dandelion


This man is very, very dangerous.


45 posted on 10/01/2004 5:36:28 AM PDT by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: shawngf

"They always blame America first."


46 posted on 10/01/2004 5:37:54 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: dandelion
kerry's nuclear umbrella


47 posted on 10/01/2004 5:38:05 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Bender : This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me.)
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To: Sabatier

Yes ---- Kerry is scary --- I don't really care too much about the ancient past --- Vietnam ---- if he had changed in the decades since then it would be different --- but he's worse.


48 posted on 10/01/2004 5:43:19 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: dandelion

Kerry is showing his colors last night.


49 posted on 10/01/2004 6:17:43 AM PDT by Milligan
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To: dandelion

This is what needs to be told to the people. First Los Alamos via Clinton has given away the designs for the nukes to China. Now Kerry wants to give up our nukes. Maybe if we are defenseless it will pass Kerry's "Global Test."


50 posted on 10/01/2004 6:33:38 AM PDT by nukecheese (Paper or plastic? Who cares! We work at the nuke plant.)
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To: dandelion
Thank you for pointing that out dandelion. My jaw dropped when he said that, my wife and I looked at each other with a huge WTF on our faces - That SOB is going to disarm US!?

I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, this has been his stance since he's been in the Senate, I just didn't think he'd dare let on to the American people how radical a pacifist he really is.

Another thought that immediately came to mind was, has this information been publicly released? I'd never heard of a bunker busting nuclear weapon, kinda surprised to hear a US Senator talk about a developing weapon on an internationally televised event. The foreign relations negatives of suggesting our government is irresponsible in it's development, keeping and deployment of nuclear weapons are astronomical. The only plus side is it might scare the hell out of our enemies.....many more of which will now support Kerry for sure.

51 posted on 10/01/2004 6:36:42 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (John Kerry - ready to do his "doodie" to his country yet again!)
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To: dandelion

Oh wow, man, it's like the 60's all over again!!!


52 posted on 10/01/2004 7:30:16 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Will the "global test" be essay or multiple choice?)
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To: dandelion

This was Kerry's "colosal" blunder.


53 posted on 10/01/2004 7:33:03 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: dandelion

What this statement by JFK revealed, moreover, is that he is more concerned about the tender sensibilities of our enemies than the safety of our country. Tell me, you all: who would be offended by the existence of bunker-busting nukes in the hands of the US military? Answer: Iran and N. Korea. Kerry knows that those two situations are extremely tense, and one leg of his solution is not to p*ss them off; and the development of such nukes would in fact p*ss them off. So Kerry--and in this aspect he reflects perfectly the position of his party--views this kind of weapons program the obstacle to peace; but Bush etc would see this weapons system as the means to peace because it would intimidate the enemy to exercise some caution. So I agree: this statement from Kerry is very, very revealing and should be brought up repeatedly by Bush in the 2nd debate.


54 posted on 10/01/2004 7:39:16 AM PDT by Remole
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To: dandelion
And this is what drives me nuts. Skerry made some serious and outragous statements like this yet all the media can do is focus on how sKerry won the debate.

It's one thing to win a debate but it sure as hell is another to start giving the farm away (ie. the safety net that makes America strong in the world).

That giving uranium to Iranian idea is just as stupid as can be. Yet no one in the media is questioning it.

It just blows me away that people didn't want to hear what the guy was actually saying. I think it really is very important that someone in the Bush43 team start airing some serious ads targeting these insane responses from sKerry.

55 posted on 10/01/2004 7:40:52 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: dandelion

I see a big time commercial being used against Kerry on this one.


56 posted on 10/01/2004 7:42:11 AM PDT by truthandlife (http://www.neverforgetneveragain.com -- If you want Bush re-elected pass on this video link!!!!)
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To: carl in alaska

I disagree, people need to be led around on a string to see these things. GWB should have destroyed Kerry on basic things.

GWB should have broken the rules and simply asked Kerry:

"So you are in favor ofgiving Iran and North Korea more nuclear materials while dismantling our nuclear program????????"


57 posted on 10/01/2004 7:44:53 AM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: ladyinred

Give Iran uranium and then shut own program down? What an nuance!


58 posted on 10/01/2004 7:45:40 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Kerry: how can we trust him with our money, if Teresa won't trust him with hers!)
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To: dandelion

God help us if the idiot who thinks our own weapons program is the enemy becomes president of the United States.


59 posted on 10/01/2004 7:50:34 AM PDT by katdawg
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To: ladyinred

"This man is a danger to this country, and he must not be allowed to be in charge of anything."

What about the public library in mayberry?


60 posted on 10/01/2004 7:53:19 AM PDT by modest proposal
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