Bush Assails Kerry on (Reagan) Missile Defense

[papau]

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President Bush brandishes a tool during his tour of a Boeing plant in Ridley Park, Pa., where he criticized Sen. John Kerry's lack of support for a missile defense system

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9661-2004Aug17.html

Bush Assails Kerry on (Reagan) Missile Defense


By Mary Fitzgerald and Vanessa Williams
Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, August 18, 2004; Page A04


RIDLEY PARK, Pa., Aug. 17 -- President Bush reaffirmed his administration's commitment to building an antimissile system, accusing opponents of the program of "living in the past."

Although Bush did not mention his Democratic rival by name on Tuesday, his speech here at a Boeing Co. plant included a thinly veiled attack on John F. Kerry's stance on missile defense. "I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system don't understand the threats of the 21st century," he told 1,400 cheering Boeing employees and supporters.

Kerry has said he would cut back spending on missile defense.

Bush delivered his speech after taking a tour of the defense contractor's plant, which manufactures CH-47 Chinook helicopters and the V-22 Osprey for the U.S. Army. He told workers that equipment manufactured at the plant was "made by the best hands in America" and thanked them for "giving our troops what is necessary to keep safe."

The president noted that last month Boeing engineers loaded the first missile interceptor into a silo in Alaska -- describing that as the beginning of a national shield "envisioned by Ronald Reagan."<snip>

[WildClarySage]

1. Kerry opposes it for the same reason I do.

because it doesn't fucking work.

[shaolinmonkey]

2. "I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system don't understand

the threats of the 21st century,"

and those who SUPPORT this ballistic missile system still refuse to acknowledge that it does not work and is, therefore, another waste of billions of our tax dollars.

To quote Scott Evil: "ass".

[Strawman]

3. What a cute picture of lil' Georgie playing worker!

Guy never did an honest day's work in his pampered life. How insulting to working people. Come November he can learn what it's like to be laid off!

"You fire; we're going to shoot it down."

Bring them nukes on!

What a complete and utter dipshit. "Don't need no body armor, what I got me here is a nucular shield!" As Wes Clark aptly put it in so many words, this only proves that Republicans don't really care about national defense, what they care about weapons systems, especially ones that don't work and allow them to transfer billions of our tax dollars to their corporate buddies.