Posted on 09/16/2010 11:51:20 AM PDT by pissant
At today's Senate Foreign Relations committee business meeting on New START, chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Republican Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into an open argument about whether the United States should build a giant missile defense system to protect every American citizen around the world.
That's the idea put forth by DeMint in an amendment to the resolution of ratification that the committee is considering, in advance of a full senate debate and vote on the nuclear reductions treaty after the November elections. DeMint said at the meeting that if the United States is going to draw down its nuclear arsenal, it should commit to building missile defense such that every U.S. citizen and all U.S. troops abroad are protected.
"This START agreement does not defend the people of the United States," DeMint said. "This amendment commits us and the United States of America to defend the United States to the best of our ability with a missile defense system capable of shooting down multiple missiles."
In an interview with The Cable during a break in the meeting, DeMint said he wanted to scuttle the entire idea of mutually assured destruction, the basic framework of nuclear balancing that has governed the U.S.-Russia security relationship for decades, and build a missile defense system that could defend against Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
Lurch was in Vietnam, ya know.
He’s highly decorated too, from what we’re told.
"The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Enduring Freedom. The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq. The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadafi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora. The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11. I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against. This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?" -- Zell Miller
Yeah, he shot himself in the ass with the enemy’s rice.
Admiral in the Cambot Navy.
Was Effin sKerry wounded? Will he try to claim another fraudulent Purple Heart?
And, he was in Cambodia also.
Doesn’t Kerry make a perfect dim-bulb-crat?
Chicken, never worked a day in his life, never met a dollar he earned, and couldn’t reason his way out of a paper bag.
Oh, and screwed his way to senatorship - just like Pelosi and Boxer.
He has the hat, I tells ya!
And, I will bet it is SEARED into his memory.
Oh God! This is like a Spartan fighting to the death with a 6 year old girl.
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