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Politics : The TRUTH About John Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (259)	2/28/2004 11:24:28 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1483

4. Senator Kerry On Intelligence Spending CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS: “In 1995, you were the only sponsor of a bill to cut $1.5 billion from intelligence spending over the next five years…” KERRY: “I was on the Intelligence Committee. What we were trying to do, some of us, was push the funding not into technical means - there was a fascination always with satellites and listening devices, not with human intelligence. I've always been somebody who has felt that we needed human intelligence. That's our failure. That was the failure with respect to 9/11. That remains the greatest gap in our intelligence. So I wanted to reduce some spending from the national technical means and change the culture of our intelligence gathering.” (FOX’s “Fox News Sunday,” 1/25/04) 5. S. 1290 “Reduce the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.” (S. 1290, Introduced 9/29/95) Senate Bill S1290, 104th Congress, 1st Session

To: American Spirit who wrote (259)	2/28/2004 11:25:53 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1483

6. Senator Kerry’s Weapon System Cuts KERRY: “If they want to talk about a specific weapon system, I'm happy to talk about it or a particular point in time. But that's not what they did.” (NBC's "Today," 2/25/04) GILLESPIE: “What he's not proud of, apparently, is his votes in the United States Senate when it comes to national security policy: votes against the Apache helicopter, votes against the Stealth bomber, votes against the--the first Gulf War. He now says he's opposed to the war in Iraq. The fact is if his policies were in place, Saddam Hussein would not only be in Baghdad; he'd still be in Kuwait.” (CBS’ “Face The Nation,” 2/22/04) GOV. HALEY BARBOUR (R-MS): “He sponsored legislation to cut intelligence spending $1.5 billion. You know, you mentioned he voted for this and that. He also voted against the B-2, against the F-15, against the F-16, against the Apache A- 64. And I think that's one of the problems here.” (FNC’s Hannity And Colmes, 2/23/04) GILLESPIE: “If you look at the votes that he’s cast in the United States Senate, he’s voted to cancel weapons programs like the Stealth Bomber, the A-1 tank, the Apache helicopter, the MX missile. Vote after vote after vote, he’s voted to cut $1.5 billion from our intelligence community.” (MSNBC’s “Lester Holt Live,” 2/23/04) SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS (R-GA): “We just simply put out the facts of his voting record. I did a conference call on Saturday in which I delineated -- but beginning in 1972, when John Kerry ran for Congress, he made the statement that he wouldn't vote for defense appropriation bills. And then he had a history in the United States Senate of voting to cut or eliminate funding for major weapons systems that are now in inventory that were used to allow our troops to drive all the way to Baghdad: the F-15, the F-16, the B-1, the B-2, the list goes on and on.” (FNC’s “Fox And Friends,” 2/24/04) GILLESPIE: “I'm concerned about his votes in the United GILLESPIE: “I'm concerned about his votes in the United States Senate to eliminate the Apache helicopter, the M-1 tank, the MX missile, to vote against the first Gulf War.” (NBC’s “Today,” 2/24/04) GILLESPIE: “But I think the most salient point about Senator Kerry's record is his record in the United States Senate, where he voted to eliminate the M.X. missile. He voted to eliminate the stealth bomber. He voted to eliminate the F-14-a and F-15 fighter jets.” (FNC’s “The Big Story,” 2/23/04)

To: American Spirit who wrote (259)	2/28/2004 11:36:33 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 1483

Jo (Feb 27, 2004 2:12:27 PM) Was the 1.5 billion dollar intelligence cut bill Kerry sponsored only about satellites? I read a rebuttal to Wednesday conference his voting record and that is what they claimed. Blaise Hazelwood (Feb 27, 2004 2:12:57 PM) S1290, S1290, S1290, S1290, S1290, S1290 Blaise Hazelwood (Feb 27, 2004 2:14:41 PM) Jo - Senator Kerry proposed a 1.5 billion dollar cut to the intelligence budget starting in 1995 through the year 2000. If you go our website -- the bill is posted gop.com -- be sure to read it because Senator Kerry has yet to explain why he made such a proposal. You should also look at the information from the press conference Chairman Gillespie held Wednesday -- it is very informative. gop.com