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Aug. 4th, 2004
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Conventional Wisdom: Adding FACTS to the Bush Spin
"One thing you won't hear from the Bush-Cheney campaign this week is anything positive. They can't talk about the issues, because they have no plan for the future. They can't talk about their record, because it's riddled with failure. So they keep firing off intentionally misleading attacks to distract from all the things Bush and Cheney dropped the ball on over the past four years," - Kerry campaign spokesman, Chad Clanton.
Bush Says Kerry Cut Intelligence:
“At a time when the men and women of our intelligence community are working hard to anticipate the moves of a shadowy new enemy, we cannot trust the presidency to someone who has a record of supporting deep cuts to our nation's intelligence agencies.”
Recycled and Wrong
The Washington Post, among others has already called this charge wrong in March. It was widely known that the intelligence budget was overridden with pet projects and pork and was no longer appropriate to the intelligence tasks at hand. The nation was shifting from the cold war to a transnational threat involving terror, drug traffickers and international crime and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And at any rate, a resolution cutting defense by exactly the same amount was introduced and adopted the same day Kerry proposed his.
( Long but informative )
Conventional Wisdom: Adding FACTS to the Bush Spin
"One thing you won't hear from the Bush-Cheney campaign this week is anything positive. They can't talk about the issues, because they have no plan for the future. They can't talk about their record, because it's riddled with failure. So they keep firing off intentionally misleading attacks to distract from all the things Bush and Cheney dropped the ball on over the past four years," - Kerry campaign spokesman, Chad Clanton.
Bush Says Kerry Cut Intelligence:
“At a time when the men and women of our intelligence community are working hard to anticipate the moves of a shadowy new enemy, we cannot trust the presidency to someone who has a record of supporting deep cuts to our nation's intelligence agencies.”
Recycled and Wrong
The Washington Post, among others has already called this charge wrong in March. It was widely known that the intelligence budget was overridden with pet projects and pork and was no longer appropriate to the intelligence tasks at hand. The nation was shifting from the cold war to a transnational threat involving terror, drug traffickers and international crime and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And at any rate, a resolution cutting defense by exactly the same amount was introduced and adopted the same day Kerry proposed his.
( Long but informative )