Presidential Candidates Detail Their National Security Beliefs

[Freddie Stubbs]

a survey of the Democratic challengers, Dean is shown to be less dovish than many perceive him to be. He doesn't back a plan to ban weapons in space.
By Nick Anderson
Times Staff Writer

December 11, 2003

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, known to many voters as a staunch opponent of the Iraq war, enthusiastically supports missile defense development and declines to back a proposal to ban weapons in space.

Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, a Dean rival for the nomination who voted last year to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq, flatly opposes the Bush administration's controversial plans to begin deployment of a missile defense system in Alaska and supports a multilateral ban on space weaponry.

Despite such differences, the major Democratic candidates appear united in opposition to President Bush's initiative to start research on new types of "bunker-busting" and "low-yield" nuclear weapons.

Those are among the positions gleaned from a survey of the Democratic candidates on national security issues, one of the most comprehensive so far in the campaign.

more: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-mildems11dec11,1,3110498,print.story

[sandnsea]

1. kick

Weapons is a pretty important issue. I haven't even read the article so I have absolutely no opinion. It's important, needs a kick.