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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (29478)	6/7/2004 11:36:40 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Read the speech, it's down near the end of it. Also notice how smart and insightful Kerry is about national defense. Did Kerry write the speech? Do you believe everything a candidate says is his personal views and words?

To: American Spirit who wrote (29478)	6/8/2004 9:13:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 81568

Ah, there's the mention of terrorist: Let me underscore that missile defense will do nothing to address what the Pentagon itself considers a much more likely and immediate threat to the American homeland from terrorists and from nonstate actors, who can quietly slip explosives into a building, unleash chemical weapons into a crowded subway, or send a crude nuclear weapon into a busy harbor. Yes, indeed, he mentions terrorism as something that a SDI system wouldn't prevent. Wow, that is profound, not to mention smart and insightful. Though he does throw in this in the true foragainst kerry spirit: I support research and development of a limited missile defense system that, indeed, might have the ability to knock down one or two incoming missiles. I think it would be, in fact, a step forward for the United States to be able to at least know that we have that capacity. ...