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To: Sam who wrote (146586)	9/29/2004 11:55:45 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, let's see: it is an extreme right group, for starters. And the person whose testimony from Iraq you are relying on belongs to it.........

To: Sam who wrote (146586)	9/29/2004 11:57:15 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Al, in his civilian life, was an active member of the Constitution Party in the great state of Texas.

To: Sam who wrote (146586)	9/29/2004 12:03:32 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Kerry: Vote against war funding was a protest vote against no bid contracts. hosted.ap.org <<...Kerry ultimately voted against providing $87 billion for military operations and aid in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although he initially supported the appropriation when it was to be funded at least in part by rolling back tax cuts for those with the highest incomes, Kerry said he ended up voting against the final version of the bill in the Senate as a protest over its funding, which included no-bid contracts. Bush has criticized Kerry throughout the campaign for the vote, which the president says shows a lack of support for troops in the field. Bush has mocked Kerry for saying, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." "It was just a very inarticulate way of saying something and I had one of those inarticulate moments," Kerry said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on "Good Morning America" on ABC. "But it reflects the truth of the position ... I thought that the wealthiest people of America should share in that burden. It was a protest." Kerry rejected Bush's assertion that he would prefer that Saddam Hussein still be in power in Iraq and repeated his contention that Bush had misled the nation about the nature of the threat the Iraqi dictator posed. "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today," Kerry told ABC. "Knowing there was no imminent threat to America, knowing there were no weapons of mass destruction, knowing there was no connection of Saddam Hussein to Al Qaida, I would not have gone to war. That's plain and simple."...>>