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Here are some of those 'lies' that say Kerry is weak on defense:
Kerry's Liberal Record on Defense(The citations for each point can be found on the source page).
- During his 20-year Senate career, John Kerry has voted to cut the Pentagon’s budget 38 times.1
- Kerry has voted 12 times against providing a pay increase to our military men and women.2
- In 2003, Kerry voted against providing $87 billion in funding for our troops in Iraq.3
- In 2002, Kerry voted six times against President Bush’s proposal to establish a Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of 9/11.4
- In 1996, Kerry introduced legislation to cut the defense budget by $6.5 billion.5
- In 1995, Kerry voted to cut the defense budget by $34 billion.6
- In 1995, Kerry voted to cut the FBI’s budget by $80 million.7
- In 1994, one year after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Kerry proposed cutting the Intelligence budget by $7.5 billion.8
- In 1984, at the one of the most critical stages of the Cold War, John Kerry ran for the Senate on a platform of eliminating several of President Reagan’s weapons systems that proved critical to defeating the Soviet Union. Among these programs Kerry wanted to eliminate were: The MX Missile, B-1 Bomber, National Missile Defense System, Patriot Air Defense System, and the F-14 Fight Jets. 9
Food for thought come next Tuesday....
Mikey,
Why do you keep drinking the kool-aid? Do you know anything about the $87 billion
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scroff said:
That's a pretty misleading article, there, Mad One. First of all I almost went blind trying to re
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That's a pretty misleading article, there, Mad One. First of all I almost went blind trying to read the citations so I could verify them. Second, many of the specific "votes" were included in wider bills. Third, in the case of the B-2, Cheney himself tried to cut the production. There are other examples, but I'll just say the only way to really know is to look up his record.
It might take more time than most people are willing to put into it, but here's a link from VoteSmart that lists Kerry's votes...
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=S0421103
Most people are already decided, but for those "swing voters", my advice is don't go by anyone's impressions, do the research yourself.
|| Posted by scroff, October 29, 2004 03:07 PM ||Mikey,
Why do you keep drinking the kool-aid? Do you know anything about the $87 billion and why Kerry changed his mind on it? Could it be, duh, that the bill itself changed?
Please, Bro, fire a few more neurons and get the whole story before you go repeating the Republican propoganda.
For those of you who question me, get off yer lazy asses and do your own homework. Research the Bill when Kerry voted for it and when he voted against it. Ask yourself this, "How could the same guy vote twice on a single Bill unless it was brought up twice and why was it brought up twice? Could it have been changed? Duh?"
Nah, that's too much work, easier to believe the soundbytes, yeah that's it, our Pres-idiot wouldn't lie, nah...
d.
|| Posted by deuddersun, October 29, 2004 09:15 PM ||