VP Debate - Nuclear Weapons: What should trigger the use ...

GOV. PALIN: Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all,

end-all of just too many people and too many parts of our planet.

So those dangerous regimes, again, cannot be allowed to acquire

nuclear weapons, period.

Our nuclear weaponry here in the U.S. is used as a deterrent, and

that's a safe, stable way to use nuclear weaponry. But for those

countries -- North Korea also under Kim Jong Il -- we have got to make

sure that we're putting the economic sanctions on these countries and

that we have friends and allies supporting us in this to make sure

that leaders like Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad are not allowed to

acquire, to proliferate or to use those nuclear weapons. It is that

important.

Can we talk about Afghanistan real quick also, though?

MS. IFILL: Certainly.

GOV. PALIN: Okay. I'd like to just really quickly mention there

too, that when you look back and you say that the Bush

administration's policy on Afghanistan perhaps would be the same as

McCain -- and that's not accurate. The surge principles, not the

exact strategy, but the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need

to be implemented in Afghanistan also. And that perhaps would be a

difference with the Bush administration.

Now, Barack Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is

air raiding villages and killing civilians. And such a reckless,

reckless comment, an untrue comment, again, hurts our cause. That's

not what we're doing there. We're fighting terrorists and we're

securing democracy, and we're building schools for children there so

that there is opportunity in that country also. There