VP Angina: "hey, Senator, you didn't support CheneyBurton"
The republicans have launched yet another line of attack on Kerry...he sensibly voted to not extend the tax-cuts that are helping to cripple my children's future, and he has voted against parts of the $87 billion-dollar corporate windfall in Iraq. Gee, CheneyBurton is pissed.
Vice President Dick Cheney, campaigning Monday in Des Moines, criticized John Kerry's vote against spending for postwar Iraq, signaling a key line of attack against the likely Democratic nominee.
In a speech that marked the first Iowa campaign event of the general election, Cheney also criticized Kerry for favoring a partial reversal of President Bush's tax cuts.
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Cheney began by accusing Kerry of failing to support troops in the field by voting against an $87 billion supplemental appropriation to pay for reconstruction in postwar Iraq. Bush and his campaign officials have pledged to make national security and the war on terrorism the key issues in his campaign.
"George Bush and I came to Washington determined to give our fine men and women all the tools and training they need to win the war on terror," Cheney said. "And it's one of the clearest distinctions that we will be drawing with our opponents this fall. When the time came to vote for funds for our troops in Iraq, the junior senator from Massachusetts voted no."
Yeah, like let's see...hmmmmm, "tools and training", which did not include adequate water supplies, still does not include adequate body armor and has wounded vets waiting for VA benefits that may never come. Yeah, they support the troops alright.
I love how the tax-cut repeal thing is couched as a "tax increase". It's an increase in the same way that eating three meals one day is "overeating" because you had two meals the day before, when you normally eat three meals a day. republican logic escapes me sometimes...logic seems to escape most republicans too, so I guess I should not feel so bad...
Next up - VP Pacemaker accuses Kerry of growing apples for sale in Eden, murdering Lizzie Borden's parents, selling Atomic Secrets to the Soviets and the massacre at Little Big Horn...footage at 11.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.10.04 at 02:07 AM
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Is stop-loss considered a tool or training?
Sen. Carl Levin gave it to Tenet yesterday asking why he didn't correct all the misinformation that Cheney is still spreading in interviews and speeches. Nice to see the fire left in my old Senator, you just don't find that in Lugar and Bayh.
Since the 87 billion passed the Congress and was signed into law and that money was for the support of our troops, why are families of soldiers still sending body armor over to Iraq?
As long as the press keeps repeating these quotes as news and bury Kerry responses, the ads, er, speeches will be effective. This is framing the debate and keeping the other side on the defensive.
People need to let their news channels know when they are presenting only one side of the (political) issue. Otherwise everything will start sounding like FOX News
posted by: former fish on 03.10.04 at 07:11 PM [permalink]
Pre 9-11 Bush-Cheney manifestly refused to consider Al Quida a real threat, ignoring the warnings of the Clinton adminstration, to say that "George Bush and I came to Washington determined to give our fine men and women all the tools and training they need to win the war on terror," is just plain revisionist garbage.
Clinton's military kicked ass in Afganistan, all Bush did was say go get'em.
Bush should be using the CIA, Special Forces, and the resources of the International community to track down and eliminate terrorists, not neo-con artists nation building. All that 87 billion was about Bush's piss poor judgement, a bill to be paid to CheneyBurton , not about supporting the troops. Bush got 500+ of our best killed, he and the wing-nuts can just give up this dogma which uses the military as a shield for his extremist world vision. Right now the military are like good kids with abusive foster parents. We need to send the foster parents packing.
posted by: starr bucks on 03.10.04 at 10:19 PM [permalink]
