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From the Washington Free Beacon: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a 2006 survey that he would eliminate federal funding for national missile defense, a technology experts say is crucial to fending off a Chinese or Russian attack on the United States.
Walz said he put a great deal of time and effort into filling out the survey, in which he laid out his views on a series of national security and other policy issues.
“I took the time, in about three hours, to fill out every single portion of that questionnaire in great detail,” Walz said in a 2006 congressional debate. In that survey, from the non-partisan group Vote Smart, Walz also indicated he opposed “a policy of pre-emptive military strikes against countries deemed to be a threat to U.S. national security.”
Walz’s responses reflect decades of skepticism from many Democrats toward domestic missile defense and put him in the dovish wing of the Democratic Party.
The report explains that there are a number of domestic missile defense sites, which are credited with protecting the country against a potential long-range missile attack.
The technology is also essential to the protection of American allies, the Free Beacon notes.
Walz touted that he completed the survey:
Tim Walz Called To Eliminate Spending on National Missile Defense https://t.co/gZ35QfeSDy
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