A few thoughts as we enter the last week:
Duhbya says Kerry doesn’t have the resolve for the “War On Terror”. Kerry has been campaigning hard for over a year. Kerry has shown is resolve. Bush, in turn, shows how isolated and insulated he is.
After the debates, fact-checkers and Right-wingers jumped on “$200 Billion” spent in Iraq, when the correct figure was closer to $120B. Today, we learn Bush will ask for $70B more just for 2005. $190B within a couple of weeks of the debates.
A few hundred tons of tremendously powerful explosives with potential as detonators of nuclear bombs are missing from Iraq. The location was well known before the invasion (unlike all the WMDs we can’t find). Now, these explosives are missing. Does Duhbya deserve the blame? He sure does.
In ads and speeches, BushCo say Kerry tried to gut Intelligence more than a decade ago. Conveniently, they ignore that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney sought similar cuts and the new CIA Director, Porter Goss, Republican, sought even deeper cuts.
Bush & Company are unworthy of their office. And they had 4 years they never deserved to prove that point. Vote the Rats Out. mjh
Would Kerry Throw Us To The Wolves?
A new Bush ad claims Kerry supported cuts in intelligence — so deep they would have weakened America’s defenses against terrorists, and shows a pack of hungry-looking wolves preparing to attack. Actually, the cut Kerry proposed in 1994 amounted to less than 4 percent, as part of a proposal to cut many programs to reduce the deficit.
And in 1995 Porter Goss, who is now Bush’s CIA Director, co-sponsored an even stronger deficit-elimination measure that would have cut CIA personnel by 20 percent over five years. When asked about that at his confirmation hearings he didn’t disavow it.
An Avalanche of Misinformation
Two misleading Bush ads accusing Kerry of supporting tax increases on gasoline and middle-class parents were running heavily last week. According to the Campaign Media Analysis Group of TNS Media Intelligence, which tracks TV ads in the top 100 markets, the two Bush ads accounted for nearly half of the estimated $16 million spent by Bush and the Republican National Committee during that week alone.
Both ads repeat claims we’ve repeatedly disputed here. They both attempt to portray Kerry as eager to raise taxes on middle-income taxpayers, which Kerry has said consistently he won’t do. One ad characterizes Kerry’s votes against proposed tax cuts as votes to “raise taxes,” an outright falsehood.