Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Power Line has scans of the 1984 John Kerry press-release detailing the laundry-list of weapons systems the Senator wanted to cut. These are not reluctant cuts as part of some legislative compromise. They are calls for specific cuts of specific systems as a matter of policy.
...If genuine--I emphasize "if"--this is a very interesting press release. Kerry advocates cutting $45 to $53 billion from Reagan's defense budget by canceling a number of weapons programs: the MX missile, the B1 bomber, the strategic defense initiative, the AH-64 helicopter, the F15 fighter, the Phoenix and Sparrow missiles, and others...
