Missile Defense-

...-less?....

This is a gaping hole through which President Bush can and should drive his campaign bus right through: John Kerry has acknowledged that he will cut spending for developing a missile shield.

"Missile defense is clearly the biggest difference on defense spending between Bush and Kerry," said Douglas Berenson, a military budget analyst at Washington-based consultancy DFI International. "Anywhere else, it's on the margins."

You can't be serious about dealing with North Korea and not recognize the danger that their nuclear weapons pose to the United States. Like his support for a unilateral nuclear freeze in the 1980's showed how little he understood the true nature of the nuclear arms race, his plan to cut missile defense research and implementation shows that he has learned absolutely nothing in the intervening 20 years.

He was just a liberal peacenik of no consequence because he was nowhere near the true levers of powers, now his particular brand of nuclear idiocy has the potential to become a danger to our national security if he gets access to them...

This is one of the best illustrations of why we can't let that happen...