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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
1 cruise missiles are on the list.
2 your point is well taken. lots of these things aren't worth the money. but you didn't really hit all of the cuts. why do you think Star Wars isn't worth mentioning?
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1. Cruise missiles were listed as having funding reduced, not eliminated.
2. (a) I'm not quite sure what the list is -- I doubt that it is a list of programs he wanted eliminated in 1984, as opposed to funding he wanted eliminated/reduced in 1984. As Dick Cheney said in 1992, "you've directed me to buy more M1s, F14s, and F16s—all great systems … but we have enough of them." See
http://www.slate.com/id/2106119/
Kerry, like a lot of Democrats in 1984, may well have thought that the large build-up in defense spending that began after Ivan rolled into Afghanistan was enough to meet the threats we were facing at the time.
(b) Star Wars isn't worth mentioning because I don't think that an attack on Kerry for opposing it would hurt his chances of being elected.
