Bush Warns Against Military Letdown as Soviets Back Off
Vice President George Bush today warned against relaxing U.S. military strength in the face of peace gestures from the Soviet Union and said the nation can ill afford to elect Michael S. Dukakis, who he said again has “literally no experience in foreign affairs.”
The Republican presidential candidate, addressing 600 supporters in a Knights of Columbus hall here, accused his opponent of opposing the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the strike against Libya--which Dukakis has denied--and U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf to protect the flow of oil there.
“I believe that we’ve got to fight terrorism and if we ever again face clear evidence of terrorist aggression, terrorist involvement in the taking of American lives, as we did in the case of Libya, I would not hesitate to strike again,” Bush said. “We have got to punish state-sponsored terrorism.”
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