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Kerry's 1994 effort to cut defense eyed
NJ.COM ^

Posted on 03/19/2004 11:42:31 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP)

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry

1 posted on 03/19/2004 11:42:32 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver; Hon; backhoe; MeekOneGOP
ping
2 posted on 03/19/2004 11:44:55 AM PST by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: GailA
Kerry's voting record. The gift that just keeps on giving ;-)
3 posted on 03/19/2004 11:45:37 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Sub-Driver
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., carries a snowboard as he snowshoes his way toward a mountain in Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Ketchum, Idaho Friday, March 19, 2004. Kerry planned to snowboard down from about a 8000-foot elevation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
4 posted on 03/19/2004 11:47:11 AM PST by maggief
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To: Sub-Driver
I am worried that too much is coming out too soon... plenty of time for Hitlery to jump in... which may have been the plan all along.
5 posted on 03/19/2004 11:54:36 AM PST by ambrose ("I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" - John F. al-Query)
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To: JohnHuang2
Humph!!! Kerry's voting record has more fertility than an over-packed cow-lot on a hot July day.
6 posted on 03/19/2004 11:58:36 AM PST by el_texicano (Liberals are the real Mind-Numbed Robots - No Brains, No Guts, No Character)
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To: el_texicano
hehehe!
7 posted on 03/19/2004 12:01:16 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: ambrose
If Kerry were to step down from the nomination just prior to the convention what are the rules concerning his delegates? At that point are they free agents?

It was not just Republican FBI files that were taken by the Clintons!
8 posted on 03/19/2004 12:02:53 PM PST by cpdiii (Rph, Geologist, Oilfield Trash and proud of it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry's Debate Strategy

9 posted on 03/19/2004 12:03:01 PM PST by balrog666 (A public service post.)
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To: Sub-Driver
He did it in the 1980's also, when he tried to cut $45 billion to $53 billion from the defense budget, making this $4 billion in the 1990's look like small potatos.



10 posted on 03/19/2004 12:05:12 PM PST by adam_az (Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
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To: GailA
Whew ! What a guy ! ...


11 posted on 03/19/2004 12:58:49 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: maggiefluffs
I can't take many more of these Kerry in snowpants photos.
12 posted on 03/19/2004 1:01:33 PM PST by babaloo
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To: prairiebreeze; onyx; Texasforever; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; dixiechick2000; Tamsey; ...
"The amendment offered by the senator from Massachusetts would reduce the fiscal year 1994 budget for national defense by nearly $4 billion," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., then the powerful Appropriations Committee chairman. "We have already cut defense spending drastically. ... Cutting another $4 billion is simply unwise and insupportable."

PING

13 posted on 03/19/2004 1:02:52 PM PST by Mo1 (Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
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To: Sub-Driver
We are putting blindfolds over our pilots' eyes," Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, a decorated World War II veteran, said of the impact of Kerry's proposed intelligence cuts.

So, Kerry takes the quote and reworks it some to: "We are putting targets on the backs of our soldiers."

The guy can't even think of anything original without stealing it first. Does "Bring it on!" ring a bell?

14 posted on 03/19/2004 1:15:11 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan
"So, Kerry takes the quote and reworks it some to: "We are putting targets on the backs of our soldiers." "

I am sure within the ammendment there was a provision to fund development of the targets.
15 posted on 03/19/2004 2:45:02 PM PST by dozer7 (Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: Sub-Driver
Good post, Sub-Driver. Garden state BUMP.
16 posted on 03/19/2004 2:47:29 PM PST by Freemeorkillme
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To: Sub-Driver
Inouye rebuked Kerry for proposing military cuts without consulting Pentagon leaders. "This is clearly micromanaging the Defense Department without any input from our military commanders," the Hawaii Democrat said.

That was part, just part, of what was wrong with the Carter Presidency. Micromanagement by an incompetent, without appeal.

17 posted on 03/19/2004 2:49:30 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: Sub-Driver
As Kerry, now a presidential candidate, assails President Bush's stewardship of national security, his own voting record in the Senate is coming under increasing scrutiny. On Thursday, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona came to Kerry's defense, saying the Massachusetts Democrat wasn't weak on defense.

So McCain voted for Kerry's plan and is weak on defense too.

18 posted on 03/19/2004 3:00:17 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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