• Believes military strength is the best deterrent to
enemies, but that strength also requires great restraint.

• Huckabee has pointed out that he is all for the
technological steps that have been endorsed for national security
like 'smart cards' that use RFID chips to identify the owners.

• He has said that he defends Guantanamo Bay detention
facility as a very necessary step towards securing the nation. 

• Huckabee has disapproved of the way the federal
government has placed too much burden on the states for homeland
security. 

• Mike Huckabee has been actively involved as a
representative of the state in the federal committees that are
devoted to national security.

• In October 2007 he said "I believe that we are currently
engaged in a world war. This war is not a conventional war, and
these terrorists are not a conventional enemy."  Huckabee added,
"The top priority of the President as Commander in Chief is first
and foremost protecting our own citizens."  On the same day he
also said "With a focus on renewed diplomacy and inclusion, we
can accomplish the goals of our nation without having to go it
alone."

• Huckabee was part of the group that helped to form the
Governors Homeland Security Advisory Council and he said, "This
council is a unique opportunity for states to have a unified
voice in the ongoing dialogue about how best to prevent and
address homeland security and disaster concerns."

• Huckabee once said, "A true leader shares his power
rather than shows his power. True greatness is revealed by
humility rather than hubris."
		

• He voted against the original Patriot Act of 2001 and
later for bills reauthorizing the act as a compromise, believing
the new version is still better than what the White House
originally proposed and does modestly improve the Patriot Act by
strengthening civil liberty protection without sacrificing the
tools that law enforcement needs to keep us safe.

?• Obama wants Homeland Security money targeted more
towards high-risk areas such as nuclear facilities, chemical
plants and ports.
 
?• He introduced legislation to enhance disaster
preparedness and to strengthen the security of chemical plants
and drinking water security.

• He wants more quality tracking of nuclear technology and
spent nuclear fuel so that it doesn't end up in terrorist hands.

• When asked to describe the Obama doctrine for the use of
force when there was no security issue in the offing, he replied,
"Well, we may not always have national security issues at stake,
but we have moral issues at stake."
	
• When asked, during his presidential interview with Katie
Couric of CBS News, to explain a national security situation when
it was appropriate to lie to the American people, Obama was of
the opinion, "I don't think it's appropriate to lie. I mean, you
can put together a hypothetical where there is a national
security emergency that is imminent. And you don?t want to
provide, for example, the location of our troops. You don?t have
to lie in those situations. You simply say, ?We?re not answering
questions." 
	
• Barack Obama thinks that the problems of terrorism are
one of the most terrible threats that the US faces. 
	
• "The way we have to approach the problem of Islamic
extremism, is we have to hunt down those who would resort to
violence to move their ideology forward. We should be going after
al Qaeda and those networks fiercely and effectively," stated
Obama on CNN Late Edition July 13th 2008.
	
• Human rights and national security are complementary,
stated Obama when he was questioned about whether human rights
were more important than American national security. 

• Laura Flanders on 11th November 2007 quoted Obama
saying, "The threat that we face now is nowhere near as dire as
it was in the Cold War. We shouldn?t allow our politics to be
driven by the fear of terrorism."