Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (184972)	3/17/2004 12:40:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577978

Posted on Wed, Mar. 17, 2004 Kerry Criticizes Bush for Failing to Protect Troops in Iraq By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 17--CHARLESTON, W.Va. - John F. Kerry sought yesterday to define himself as a committed veteran as he charged that President Bush rushed into Iraq a year ago without making sure US forces had enough body armor and other protection from insurgent attacks. Flanked by his Vietnam boat crew and appearing before dozens of veterans wearing caps designating their American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, the senator also accused the president of "trying to blame everybody, except his own administration," for problems the United States faces at home and abroad. In addition, he rebutted a new Bush ad criticizing him for voting last fall against $87 billion in additional funding for US troops in Iraq -- a supplemental appropriation that included money for body armor -- by saying he would have supported it if it had been financed by repealing a portion of the tax cuts implemented during the Bush administration. Kerry made that proposal in an amendment he cosponsored; the Senate rejected the amendment before approving the $87 billion. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," he said. Late last night, the Massachusetts senator also broke his silence on the tumultuous weekend elections in Spain, saying the Socialist victor, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, should not have vowed to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq. "In my judgment, the new prime minister should not have decided that he was going to pull out of Iraq. He should have said, 'This increases our determination to get the job done," " Kerry said in a satellite TV interview with the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. Bush, meanwhile, criticized Kerry from the Oval Office for suggesting he has support from world leaders -- whom he has refused to identify -- who want him elected president. miami.com