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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
And he voted for a different measure to fund the $87 billion (b) that Bush opposed. At least Kerry's method of funding the war was fiscally responsible.
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If you don't see that his vote against the $87 million was nothing more than a way to get some cover from Dean, there's no reason to have any further discussion. He voted no to the bill, and would have voted no to any bill the president proposed, because he needed cover. He was one of 12 fucking senators to vote no, which indicates that the "Bush Bill," while imperfect, was a signable bill.
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He was right. Living in a democracy, as we do, you're allowed to say that our leaders have screwed up, even if our troops are being shot at. I recall Republicans criticizing Clinton while our troops were in harm's way in the former Yugoslavia.
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Perhaps, but that doesn't mean the candidate for president should do it in that manner. You keep confusing the average citizen, even the average senator, with the CIC.
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If pointing out the truth constitutes ridicule, then you've got to blame the person who put Allawi in the situation. Bush has Allawi come to this country to campaign for him, reading a speech written by his campaign, and Kerry's to blame for pointing this out? You think no one in Iraq was going to see the Allawi puppet show on Al Jazeera if Kerry didn't point it out?
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Funny, why doesn't this same rationale apply to the French? I know I know. Because when Bush does it is a failure of diplomacy, but when Kerry does it it's pointing out the truth.
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No, he said the problem was that there weren't more of them. They probably agree.
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He's called them the coalition of the coerced and the bribed. That speaks for itself.
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If you read what he said, it's pretty simple. Once you act unilaterally, you've got to be able to justify what you've done to your own countrymen and other countries.
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It's very confusing to me. What does this mean? How do you justifiy it? To whom do you justify it? What if you can justify it to your country man but not your allies?
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It's not confusing. Bush is twisting his words intentionally, because after four years, that's what he's got left to run on. That and poor Mary Cheney.
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Which is 1 issue more than Kerry's "I'm not Bush" platform.
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He's said the war on terror involves law enforcement, which it does. Do you ever find yourself wondering why Attorney General Ashcroft, the nation's top law enforcement officer, keeps popping up in the war on terror? It's not because he's a member of the Reserves. This, again, is another straw man.
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Of course it does, but it also should involve the military, and I don't believe Kerry believes this.
