Originally posted by Rogerm60:

Flip flopping on the war - web page


OK, the Bush marketing folks have stretched this to a fair degree (and totally miss the point that we gave Hussein a decade worth of chances), but what say you to the following...

From the article: "It's not only Bush who criticizes Kerry's inconsistency on that vote. Rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, a senator who also had voted to give Bush authority to use force in Iraq, said: "I don't know how John Kerry and John Edwards can say they supported the war but then opposed the funding for the troops who went to fight the war that the resolution that they supported authorized." Lieberman spoke at a candidate debate in Detroit Oct. 26, 2003.

Another Democratic rival who criticized Kerry for that vote was Rep. Dick Gephardt, who said beforehand that he would support the $87 billion "because it is the only responsible course of action. We must not send an ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq."


Originally posted by Rogerm60:
Votes for tax increases - web page


From the article: "To be sure, such votes did express Kerry's general approval for the higher tax levels they contained.

Originally posted by Rogerm60:
Voting against military and intel spending - web page

Most of the recent military actions seem to be valid Cold-War shelving excercises on many programs that were no longer needed, but I'll go to town against any Republican or Democrat that shafted Intel spending, something that Kerry did during the Clinton years. We blinded ourselves in the Middle-East and in other areas aroung the globe and the economic surplus that Democrats like to brag about were partially funded through excercises such as this. Odd that FactCheck.org doesn't mention any of the findings and intelligence funding and appropration snafu's that the 9/11 commission has dug up...

Originally posted by Rogerm60:
There are distortions on both sides, but read about them from an unbiased source - big list

I fully agree that they are the most fair source against the campaign smear ads that each group is running.

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