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Kerry: Nuclear Terrorism Is Gravest Threat to U.S.
Nuclear terrorism is the gravest threat the United States faces, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Tuesday as he offered a plan to secure atomic arsenals and materials around the world. In the second of three speeches on national security, Kerry is expected to propose a new high-level White House job to oversee efforts to prevent a terrorist attack using nuclear weapons and recommend speeding up a current program to secure nuclear material in the former Soviet Union.
He mustn’t have gotten the memo about Pakistan and Khan...
"The greatest threat we face today (is) the possibility of al Qaeda or other terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear weapon," Kerry said. "Osama bin Laden has called obtaining a weapon of mass destruction a ’sacred duty."’ He has said he would adopt a two-track policy of continuing the six-party talks that include Russia, Japan, China and South Korea while also holding direct discussions with Pyongyang.
"Peace in our time!"
After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Kerry said Americans needed to "take away politics, strip away the labels" and ask honest questions... Kerry has supported expanding and accelerating Nunn-Lugar as an important defense against terrorists and rogue states obtaining old Soviet weapons of mass destruction. "If we secure all bomb-making materials, ensure that no new materials are produced for nuclear weapons, and end nuclear weapons programs in hostile states like North Korea and Iran, we will dramatically reduce the possibility of nuclear terrorism," he said.
Is Kerry really so clueless to not know that Pakistan (an Islamic state which has supported terrorists in the past) has nuclear weapons? And has exported the tech?
Last week, he outlined four "imperatives" -- rebuilding alliances "shredded" by Bush’s go-it-with-a-coalition-of-unbribed-nations alone policies, modernizing the U.S. military by voting against nearly every weapons program he has ever seen, using diplomacy to beg forgiveness, intelligence so we can be sure not to hurt any terrorists, economic power and United Nations American values to defeat threats and freeing the United States from its "dangerous dependence on Middle East oil.
As long as it doesn’t mean drilling anywhere...
Bush and his Republican allies have tried to portray Kerry as an equivocating liberal, soft on defense and weak on fighting terrorism.
Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-06-01
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