Kerry says that he will track down and kill Osama Bin Laden and, presumably, other terrorists. Yet, he would deny our military forces the weapons most likely to achieve this goal. Why? He says because of nuclear proliferation. RESULT: More American lives will be lost as a result of our forces having to rely on conventional weaponry, including soldiers and marines on the ground. Just think what would have happened at the end of WWII if we had to invade the Japanese homeland. Kerry talks tough but does not back up that talk with the weapons we need not only to do the job and in a way that assures the least number of American casualties. Then, again, he voted against almost all the major weapons systems the military has sought over the last two decades. He claims that he would not send our military into battle without body armor. But, he voted against the funding bill that would have provided just that protection. Now, he has told us he will do the same with the tactical nuclear weapon intended to destroy terrorist bunkers and reenforced caves.
"John Kerry thinks America having nuclear weapons is akin to terrorists and rogue regimes having them. Think about it. To Kerry, the danger is the bomb itself, not the motives and agendas of the government that is holding it. Thus, a succession of American presidents commanding an arsenal of nuclear weapons as a deterrent against a Soviet missile attack were morally equivalent to the Mad Mullahs of Tehran who have been threatening to obliterate Israel just as soon as they get a nuke. "
Remember that Kerry was against Reagan's strategy, which ultimately won the Cold War. Kerry wanted a unilateral nuclear freeze. And if we had done that, we would all be speaking Russian, and wave the red flag with the hammer and sickle.
Our cousin was a young soldier on a troop ship heading for Japan toward the end of WWII. His commanding officer had them line up. He told them, "Look around you. Be prepared. Out of every ten men ready to launch this invasion, there will only be ONE man left of the ten after we invade." - While they were on the way over, Truman dropped the bombs. Thousands of men were prepared to die, but they turned around and came back to America instead.