21st
Century Military
To Ensure Unparalleled Military Strength and Honor our Troops,
we will:
Rebuild
a state-of-the-art military by making the needed investments in
equipment and manpower so that we can project power to protect America
wherever and whenever necessary.
Guarantee that our troops have the protective gear, equipment, and
training they need and are never sent to war without accurate intelligence
and a strategy for success.
Enact
a GI Bill of Rights for the 21st Century that guarantees our troops
-- active, reserve, and retired -- our veterans, and their families
receive the pay, health care, mental health services, and other
benefits they have earned and deserve.
Strengthen the National Guard, in partnership with the nation's
Governors, to ensure it is fully manned, equipped and available
to meet missions at home and abroad.
War on Terror
To Defeat Terrorists and Stop the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction,
we will:
Eliminate
Osama Bin Laden, destroy terrorist networks like al Qaeda, finish
the job in Afghanistan and end the threat posed by the Taliban.
Double the size of our Special Forces, increase our human intelligence
capabilities, and ensure our intelligence is free from political
pressure.
Eliminate terrorist breeding grounds by combating the economic,
social, and political conditions that allow extremism to thrive;
lead international efforts to uphold and defend human rights; and
renew longstanding alliances that have advanced our national security
objectives.
Secure by 2010 loose nuclear materials that terrorists could use
to build nuclear weapons or "dirty bombs."
Redouble efforts to stop nuclear weapons development in Iran and
North Korea.
Homeland
Security
To Protect America from Terrorism and Natural Disasters, we will:
Immediately
implement the recommendations of the independent, bipartisan 9/11
Commission including securing national borders, ports, airports
and mass transit systems.
Screen
100% of containers and cargo bound for the U.S. in ships or airplanes
at the point of origin and safeguard America's nuclear and chemical
plants, and food and water supplies.
Prevent
outsourcing of critical components of our national security infrastructure
-- such as ports, airports and mass transit -- to foreign interests
that put America at risk.
Provide
firefighters, emergency medical workers, police officers, and other
workers on the front lines with the training, staffing, equipment
and cutting-edge technology they need.
Protect
America from biological terrorism and pandemics, including the Avian
flu, by investing in the public health infrastructure and training
public health workers.
Iraq
To Honor the Sacrifice of Our Troops, we will:
Ensure
2006 is a year of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty,
with the Iraqis assuming primary responsibility for securing and
governing their country and with the responsible redeployment of
U.S. forces.
Insist that Iraqis make the political compromises necessary to unite
their country and defeat the insurgency; promote regional diplomacy;
and strongly encourage our allies and other nations to play a constructive
role.
Hold
the Bush Administration accountable for its manipulated pre-war
intelligence, poor planning and contracting abuses that have placed
our troops at greater risk and wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.
Energy Independence
To Free America from Dependence on Foreign Oil, we will: