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• Mitt Romney feels that USA should hike up military
spending to 4% of the country's GDP. He also believes that the
Government should increase the active duty work force by ten
thousand.
• Mitt Romney stands for wire tapping mosques to keep a
check on Islamic terrorists and feels that USA should stridently
hike up the military investment to counter act racial jihad.
• Romney feels that USA should employ both military and
diplomatic actions to win the Jihadists. He supports bringing in
a global and non military effort to counter act jihad. He also
told the press "I want to bring in a real strong team of people
who have different backgrounds, a lot from the private sector,
and I want to take on a whole series of efforts."
• He thinks that USA should not weaken Musharaff of
Pakistan as they need an ally to counter act Bin Laden.
• One of the most important things that Romney regrets in
life is not having joined the military even though he was
eligible for the draft.
• Romney believes that the FBI should have the power to
wiretap mosques and spy on new Muslims who came to reside in the
country.
• He once stated, "my view is, we ought to double
Guantanamo" so that the terrorist will be prevented from getting
any access to lawyers.
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• 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."
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