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

To: H-Man who wrote (7645)	3/16/2004 8:43:58 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

When you visit a food store and decide not to buy an item say fish, does it mean that you are not in the food store to buy food. Maybe you do not want to buy fish but want chips instead. Think about it, if you can. The Bushies have not been able to figure out what they are doing in the WH. I hope that at least you will figure out my simple analogy and thereby provide the answer to your own question.

To: H-Man who wrote (7645)	3/16/2004 9:22:01 AM
From: blue red	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

OK, then Mr, Kerry, Please explain then why, shortly after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, and when the intelligence budget had been reduced the year before, you proposed to cut billions from the intelligence budget? Bush's mendacious charge that Kerry proposed to cut $1.5 billion (not "billions") from the intelligence budget has been tellingly refuted many times now. It would be nice if we could put it to rest once and for all. Here's the Washington Post story on it. You could find it elsewhere as well. "President Bush, in his first major assault on Sen. John F. Kerry's legislative record, said this week that his Democratic opponent proposed a $1.5 billion cut in the intelligence budget, a proposal that would "gut the intelligence services," and one that had no co-sponsors because it was "deeply irresponsible." "In terms of accuracy, the parry by the president is about half right. Bush is correct that Kerry on Sept. 29, 1995, proposed a five-year, $1.5 billion cut to the intelligence budget. But Bush appears to be wrong when he said the proposed Kerry cut -- about 1 percent of the overall intelligence budget for those years -- would have "gutted" intelligence. In fact, the Republican-led Congress that year approved legislation that resulted in $3.8 billion being cut over five years from the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office -- the same program Kerry said he was targeting. The $1.5 billion cut Kerry proposed represented about the same amount Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Senate that same day he wanted cut from the intelligence spending bill based on unspent, secret funds that had been accumulated by one intelligence agency "without informing the Pentagon, CIA or Congress." The NRO, which designs, builds and operates spy satellites, had accumulated that amount of excess funds. "Bush's charge that Kerry's broader defense spending reduction bill had no co-sponsors is true, but not because it was seen as irresponsible, as the president suggested. Although Kerry's measure was never taken up, Specter's plan to reduce the NRO's funds, which Kerry co-sponsored with Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), did become law as part of a House-Senate package endorsed by the GOP leadership. In his campaign speech Monday, Bush said that in 1995, "two years after the [first] attack on the World Trade Center, my opponent introduced a bill to cut the overall intelligence budget by one-and-a-half billion dollars. His bill was so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single co-sponsor in the United States Senate. Once again, Senator Kerry is trying to have it both ways. He's for good intelligence, yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services. And that is no way to lead a nation in a time of war." It's breathtaking, isn't it? Read the whole thing -- washingtonpost.com [...]