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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (5256)	3/5/2004 9:49:35 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry has a strong record on defense. Read this article: "John Kerry's Defense Defense Setting his voting record straight." slate.msn.com Not voting for everything the DOD asks for shows that Kerry is a thinking person. It reminds me of President Eisenhower's comment in his farewell speech: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex." Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 Thank goodness someone is following Eisenhower's advice. Thank you John Kerry! Still, Kerry's defense voting record is fairly conservative: Supported using force in Panama (1989) Supported using force in Somalia (1992) Supported using force in Grenada (1993) Supported using force in Kosovo (1999) Supported deploying National Missile Defense ASAP. (Mar 1999) Supported military pay raise. (Feb 1999) Against reducing nuclear weapons below START levels. (May 1999) Supported authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. (Mar 1999) Supported an increase military by 40,000 troops. (Jan 2000) Support the use of force in Afghanistan. (2001)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (5256)	3/6/2004 12:16:03 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Those Kerry defense vote charges are a rightwing LIE. I have posted this before but you need educating. Putting It In Context By PERRY BACON JR.; DOUGLAS WALLER Time Magazine Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004 A periodic look at the charges being made against the presidential candidates — and the facts behind them THE CHARGES: "He's voted to cancel weapons programs like the Stealth bomber, the [M-1] tank, the Apache helicopter, the MX missile...He's voted to cut $1.5 billion from the intelligence community." --ED GILLESPIE, Republican National Committee chairman, accusing John Kerry of being soft on defense THE CONTEXT: Kerry did fight the MX, voted to cut funds for missile defense and the B-2 Stealth bomber, and proposed cutting the intelligence budget $300 million a year from 1996 to 2000. But it was the first President Bush who halted production of the MX, and Republicans including Senator John McCain have opposed building more B-2s. On intelligence, Kerry says he wanted to scale back money for expensive spy satellites and put more into human intelligence. Another G.O.P. charge: that Kerry voted 10 times in 1990 against weapons like the F-15, F-16, Patriot missile and M-1 tank. Actually it was only one vote — against an appropriations bill that funded all these weapons. Dick Cheney, then Defense Secretary, also wanted to reduce funding for these weapons.