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Kerry in ‘86: Missile Defense System is a ‘Cancer on Our Nation’s Defense’
2013-04-12
In the 1980s, when now- Secretary of State John Kerry was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, he criticized the Reagan administration’s plan for a missile defense system -- known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- calling it a “cancer on our nation’s defense.”

“In debate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., called Star Wars ‘a cancer’ and said ‘what we must do is deny this program the funds that would enable this cancer on our nation's defense to grow any further,’” the 1986 AP report said.

One year earlier in June 1985, AP reported that Kerry was advocating the same position of limiting funding to SDI, calling it, “a dream based on an illusion.”

The Obama administration this week announced it would deploy a dream based on an illusion ballistic missile defense system in Guam in the coming weeks as a precaution against threats made by North Korea to utilize ballistic missiles in a war against the United States.

On Friday, the Pentagon announced it would add 14 Star Wars interceptors to the 30 already in place in California and Alaska – part of a West Coast-based cancer on our nation's defense missile defense system designed to shoot down long-range missiles in flight before they could reach U.S. territory.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#8  
"Liberals have never been very good at predicting the future."


they are not particularly adept at perceiving the present or past accurately either.
Posted by: abu do you love   2013-04-12 19:11  

#7  Jawn Kerry launched at Pyongyang by a trebuchet - a countermeasure I could easily live with....

Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-04-12 16:18  

#6  Liberals have never been very good at predicting the future.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-04-12 15:10  

#5  Liberals have never been very good at predicting the future.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-04-12 15:09  

#4  Jawn Kerry. Wrong AGAIN!
Posted by: tu3031   2013-04-12 13:42  

#3  Kerry in '86: Missile Defense System is a 'Cancer on Our Nation's Defense'

Fixed it.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-04-12 13:09  

#2  He may have a point. Instead of trying to intercept NORK missiles maybe we should just zap them first. You know, the best defense is a good offense.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-12 11:40  

#1  He was against it before he was for it. He'll be against it again his true colors will show again any minute now...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2013-04-12 11:02  

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