Gary Bauer on Defense

Abandon the ABM Treaty; build SDI over Asia

Bauer says the US should abandon, not simply renegotiate, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia that forbids a national defense system. Bauer called for deployment of an anti-missile system to protect Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Source: Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Sep 28, 1999

Fully fund all veteran’s benefits and health care

There are few matters of greater importance to this nation than taking care of those who have responded to aggression and preserved our peace and freedom. Our veterans deserve the first and greatest fruits of that freedom, especially the benefits and health care that were promised to them. Allowing our nation’s commitment to falter and remain under-funded diminishes us all and, left unchecked, will weaken the republic. Source: www.bauer2k.com/html/indepthissues.html 5/24/99 May 24, 1999

Deploy SDI; upgrade hollow military

I support immediate deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system to defend the American people, as well as theater missile defense to protect our troops and our allies overseas. We must take immediate steps to upgrade a U.S. military that has been hollowed out by Clinton-era cutbacks. Source: www.bauer2k.com/html/indepthissues.html 5/24/99 May 24, 1999

Expand NATO; stay engaged abroad; stop defense cuts

I’m in favor of expanding NATO. I don’t think there could be any question about that. I think we have to deny and defeat the isolationist voices that would have us withdrawal from the world scene. We need to take a look at the American defense posture right now. The defense cuts of the last seven years are cutting too deep. If we want to be a force for good around the world, then we need to be making defense decisions now that will enable a future American president to be that force for good. Source: Speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Apr 13, 1998

Build SDI - don’t leave our citizens defenseless

[We should] deploy the technology that we already have to defend US citizens from a missile attack from abroad. We have the technological capability to do that. At a time when world nations are getting their hands on missile technology and nuclear technology, it is immoral to leave the American people defenseless from an ICBM fired at one of our major American cities. Source: Speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Apr 13, 1998

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