Sample Questionnaire
Candidate’s name (please print) Candidate’s signature Date completed
Terrorism:
1. Please state your thoughts on what are the root causes of terrorism, and what steps the U.S. should take to decrease the threat and build a future free of terrorism. Please discuss your reaction to the idea that some citizens of other nations may perceive U.S. policies and actions as a form of terror.
2. Please discuss your views on the Homeland Security program.
3. What is your position on this statement: "The US Iraq occupation is creating more terrorists and hatred around the world"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Iraq:
4. Iraq – Bush Administration justification of the War:
What is your position on this statement: "The current administration has changed and continues to change the justification for the Iraq war, that is, starting with weapons of mass destruction, to toppling Saddam Hussein, to providing a democratic Iraq government, to now stating that we can’t leave because there will be massive bloodshed from sectarian violence."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
5. Do you think the Administration intentionally misled the American people and distorted the record to sway public opinion and lead us into war?
Iraq: The Aftermath
6. The U.S. is spending about 2 billion dollars per week in Iraq, with hundreds of Iraqis and soldiers dying. We hope that Congress can bring this war to a close soon. What is your position on the following four statements?
"Begin immediate and orderly withdrawal of troops from Iraq."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
b. "Begin immediate replacement of U.S. troops and contractors with international stabilization forces."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
c. "Prohibit any permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Authorize a wide array of non-military U.S. bilateral and multilateral assistance for reconstruction and reconciliation in Iraq, including a compensation fund for Iraqi noncombatant civilian casualties.
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
7. The U.S. has a responsibility to provide financial and humanitarian aid for at least four
million Iraqis who are either displaced in their own country or have become refugees in
surrounding countries.
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
World Opinion:
8. What is your position on this statement: "The next President must tell the world community that the U.S. has made a monumental foreign policy mistake by invading Iraq and as a nation we must take action not just talk to correct this error"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Iran:
9. What should be our relationship with Iran?
Military Spending:
10. The Administration proposed $481 billion for FY 2008 military spending, more than the world’s next 30 countries combined. What are your views?
"I believe the military budget should be. "
[ ] increased by about $ __________ billion
[ ] maintained at about its current level
[ ] decreased by about $__________ billion
11. What is your position on this statement: "I favor reducing military
spending and dedicating more resources to meeting essential human needs and providing critical human services"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
National Security Policy and Strategy:
National Security Agency:
12. What is your view regarding President Bush admitting at his December 16th 2005 press conference that he did order the NSA (National Security Agency) to spy on American citizens?
Preemptive war strategy:
The Administration claims that a dangerous combination of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction requires and justifies a new strategy of first strike or preemptive military attack. The doctrine as declared in September 2002 report, The National Strategy of the Unites States of America, states: "We will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting preemptively against such terrorists."
13. What is your position on this statement: "Congress should reverse the policy that
approves presidential power to initiate first-strike attack and preemptive war against
perceived enemies"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Nuclear Weapons:
At the height of the cold war, when every possibility existed for imminent attack, President Kennedy noted that "in an age where a single nuclear weapon contains almost 10 times the explosive force of all the allied air forces in WW II, nuclear war makes no sense" and that "the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn."
14. What is your position on this Nuclear de-alert statement? "I support Admiral Stansfield Turner’s proposal that the U.S. should take the initiative to create a reciprocal reduction in nuclear alert status by separating warheads from delivery systems and moving the components hundreds of miles away to storage sites monitored by verification teams."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
15. The Administration advocates new types of "usable" nuclear weapons such as "bunker busters", and low yield "tactical" nuclear weapons. What is your position on this statement? "I will continue development of new generations of nuclear weapons".
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Using nuclear weapons:
The Administration Nuclear Posture Review suggests possible first use of nuclear weapons against countries without nuclear weapons, such as Syria, Libya and Iran, or possibly in confrontations between China and Taiwan or on the Korean Peninsula.
16. What is your position on this statement: "I support the Nuclear Posture Review’s suggestion of possible first use of nuclear weapons by the U.S."?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Nuclear Non-Proliferation:
17. What is your position on this statement: "I favor the U.S. helping to pay the costs of another country (such as Russia and North Korea) to dismantle its nuclear weapons program"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
18. What is your position on this statement: "If elected I will press for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would reinforce arms control agreements across the world and help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
World-wide Nuclear Weapon Production:
19. What is your position on this statement: "The U.S. should not question other countries about their development of nuclear weapons when;
a. we continue to design ‘bunker buster’ nuclear weapons,
b. we maintain a nuclear arsenal that can destroy everyone in the world several times over,
c. we were the first to use two atomic bombs killing untold thousands of Japanese"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
The U.S. role in the world:
20. What policy and action do you advocate for responding to North Korea?
21. What would you do to work with Israel and the Palestinians to help end or minimize the longstanding, bitter conflict between the two communities?
22. What is your position on this statement: "The U.S. must develop an anti-missile defense system"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
United Nations and International Cooperation:
23. What is your position on this statement: "I support using the United Nations as the primary route/vehicle for dealing with ethnic cleansing, civil war, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"?
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
24. What is your position on this statement? "I am committed to the U.S. fulfilling all its funding obligations in support of the U.N."
___ Strongly Agree ___Agree ___ Disagree ___Strongly Disagree ___ Undecided
Conventional Weapons Sales:
25. Please discuss your views on whether our government should be promoting and underwriting weapons sales and the selling of the latest high tech U.S. weaponry to the international community.
