Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas
Roger Gary
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Gary Position on National Security
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Gary opposes the Patriot Act “under the guise of protecting Americans from terrorism. We must stop molesting people at the airport, listening in on your private phone conversations, and reading your library check-out records, and start protecting Americans from actual terrorism. Roger Gary will respect the 4th and 10th Amendments.” Campaign Website
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Gingrich Position on National Security
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• Gingrich believes that the greatest danger to the nation is the rise of radical Islam inside this country.
• He thinks withdrawal from Iraq without a win would be a blow to national security.
• Newt believes it's dangerous not to compete with India and China – losing our economic advantage will cause us to compromise national security.
• He thinks our secular-socialist system is another danger.
• Homeland security is willfully hiding from reality, reacting instead of acting and twisting the language (i.e. “manmade disasters”) instead of targeting the real enemies.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Position on National Security
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End the interventionist foreign policy which involves the United States into every regional conflict around the world. Focus on the common Defense of the People and the Republic to include a robust maritime service, National Guard, border security and missile defense.
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Miller Position on National Security
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• Miller understands that the National security of the United States of America is being threatened from many different sources today, including but not limited to these 5 sources; 1) The National debt 2) Illegal immigration 3) Terrorism from within our borders 4) Terrorism from outside our borders 5) Unprotected borders and the drug cartels.
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on National Security
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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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Romney Position on National Security
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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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Snyder Position on National Security
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"Control the border. We control the seas and the skies, but we are currently failing to control the easiest area to protect—the land. We don’t need to close the borders, just control them so we know who is coming in, why they’re here, where they’re going, and when they’re leaving."
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Woodring Position on National Security
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Restructuring of Department of Defense:
•Military spending cost overruns, eliminate the weapons that don't work out of the box by cutting funding
•Reduce the size of the military, enhance its effectiveness and provide the best technologies to our soldiers
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Libertarian Activist
R. Lee Wrights
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Wrights Position on National Security
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“Terrorism is the direct and inevitable result of decades of an American foreign policy founded on military, political and economic interventionism, support for corrupt dictators, and meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. The only way to insure our national security is to return to a foreign policy of non-intervention, to end all foreign aid and military assistance, to stop intervening in the internal affairs of other nations, and bring our troops home now”.-R. Lee Wrights, Press release.
“I have come to realize that any excuse to go to war is as good as another -- for the warmongers. They claim we must wage war to preserve peace in a humanitarian effort to save the world. What utter and complete nonsense. There is nothing humanitarian about killing people en masse, for any reason, save that of self-defense. It is blasphemy to kill innocent people and have innocent people do your killing for you, all the while proclaiming to the world you are doing it in the blessed name of Peace.
“It is time for all Americans to stop making excuses for war, or justifying it with supposed good intentions. War is much easier to stop before it starts than after it has already begun. Is it not preferable to have a country filled with prosperous patriots, than to fill our cemeteries with dead heroes? Please join me in calling for real change in American - an end to all war, and bringing the troops home.” Wrights, March 22, 2011.
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Wuensche Position on National Security
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• Wuensche believes that we must win the war against Islamic extremists.
• Wuensche believes that political correctness in dealing with Islamics each day becomes a greater danger to America.
• He believes we should expedite completion of a strategic missile defense system.
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