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from: http://209.67.114.212/forum/a456837.htm
" More than three-fourths of the electorate, 78 percent,
were "surprised" or "shocked and angry" or "skeptical" of
"government documents that indicate the U.S. military cannot
destroy even a single incoming missile." What's more,
86 percent favor deployment of a missile defense system. "
Missile shield a common misbelief
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 31, 1998 Ralph Z. Hallow
A new poll shows that more than three-quarters of Americans wrongly
believe the U.S. military can destroy an incoming missile.
"The American people are being lulled into a false sense of
security by the Clinton administration," Rep. Floyd D. Spence, the
House National Security Committee chairman, said Thursday at a
Capitol Hill press conference.
The South Carolina Republican said President Clinton has repeatedly
and wrongly claimed that there are no missiles pointed at the
United States.
Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson and Family Research
Council president Gary Bauer joined Mr. Spence in urging the
deployment of a missile defense for America, a measure supported
by 86 percent of Americans, according to the new poll.
The press conference, presented by a broad coalition of leaders
including military and missile experts, came in the wake of a
report by a bipartisan commission chaired by former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Rumsfeld Commission report found that North Korea, Iran and
other countries are hiding their ballistic missile development
programs from U.S. satellites. It said these countries are using
huge underground laboratories and factories to make and test
missiles.
Mr. Nicholson, who has been touting a missile shield on radio and
in signed opinion columns in newspapers, said Democrats are
filibustering a bill that would begin development of such a shield.
The RNC chairman, a retired Army colonel who once commanded a
tactical nuclear weapons unit, said his party is doing fine going
into the fall elections.
"So we don't need this as a partisan issue," Mr. Nicholson said,
but then called on the president "to begin to lead" on the issue.
Citing what he called the "decline in our military and the lack of
a missile defense system," Mr. Bauer said, "We are on road right
now that will lead inevitably to a disaster on American soil that
will make Pearl Harbor fade from our memory."
"The people here [at the press conference] are trying to prevent
that from happening and for that reason they are the Paul Reveres
of our age," he said.
David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, agreed
with Mr. Nicholson that missile defense need not be partisan but,
he claimed, the Democrats are making it partisan.
"What people need to ask those Democrats who are trying to stop
this is, what in God's name possessed them to think they were doing
their job by leaving the American people naked in an extremely
dangerous world," he said.
Frank Gaffney Jr., coordinator of the Coalition to Defend America,
took the lead in organizing the joint press conference. He called
it "the most extraordinary display of broad-based concern about a
national security problem that I've seen in 20 years."
The survey by GOP pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick found that 79
percent of the electorate is "very" or "somewhat" concerned about
a possible missile attack on the United States, its forces or its
allies.
More than three-fourths of the electorate, 78 percent, were
"surprised" or "shocked and angry" or "skeptical" of "government
documents that indicate the U.S. military cannot destroy even a
single incoming missile." What's more, 86 percent favor
deployment of a missile defense system.
The poll of 800 registered voters was commissioned by the Center
for Security Policy, the Claremont Institute and the Heritage
Foundation.
Posted for educational and discussion purposes only,
not for commercial use.
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Posted by: donna () *
07/31/98 04:00:38 EDT
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To: donna
"The American people are being lulled into a false sense of
security by the Clinton administration," Rep. Floyd D. Spence,
the House National Security Committee chairman, said Thursday
at a Capitol Hill press conference.
The Clinton administration, with the aid of a complicit broadcast
media, have lulled 65% of the American people into a seemingly
impenetrable stupor incapable of outrage -- despite their heinous
high crimes and misdemeanors.
God, help us all...
From: Car Reporter () *
07/31/98 04:07:57 EDT
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To: Car Reporter
78% are surprised that we cannot predict the incoming tragetory of
a supersonic missile and hit it with another missile. This is
another reminder of how uninformed the public is.
From: mmparker () *
07/31/98 07:31:39 EDT
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