7th March 2004, 11:01 PM
Tax cuts? Kerry would support tax cuts if they were for people who actually needed them! Note how he supports keeping the Bush tax cuts for people who make less than $200,000... I myself would rather we got rid of all of them, but his position is consistent with his beliefs.
Iraq? He voted to allow Bush to move troops to the reason and attack as a last resort. Now of course he should have known better and known that Bush would take "last resort" to mean "as soon as I can manufacture enough "evidence" to attack before everyone else can get fully organized against it", but he didn't... I myself supported our having troops in the Gulf to threaten Sadaam as threats were all he understood. The problem wasn't the law that was passed it was how the administration interpreted it... still I have a problem with Kerry voting for it. He should not have been tricked by Bush into thinking that he'd actually wait for any kind of proof or "last resort"! I'd like to think he' s smarter than that... but he believed them and didn't think that they'd quickly go to war like they did, I think. From that position voting against the $84 billion makes sense. Now I do think that once we're in we've got to pay for it and accept the consequences, but until we get rid of Bush (and bring in the UN and give it what it wants) we won't get any significant foreign invenstments in Iraq so we have to pay. We have no choice until Bush is gone.
Calling fellow soldiers criminals? Well in Vietam we did a whole lot of criminal things!
Special interests? Bush saying one word about this is absolutely hilarious and one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. Bush is the biggest pro-special interests person around and trying to stick that label on his opponent... totally outrageous.
And as for the Patriot Act, it was sneaked through right after 9/11, given the name PATRIOT, put to vote before people could really tell all of what was in it... I don't blame anyone for voting for it. They had no clue.
Iraq? He voted to allow Bush to move troops to the reason and attack as a last resort. Now of course he should have known better and known that Bush would take "last resort" to mean "as soon as I can manufacture enough "evidence" to attack before everyone else can get fully organized against it", but he didn't... I myself supported our having troops in the Gulf to threaten Sadaam as threats were all he understood. The problem wasn't the law that was passed it was how the administration interpreted it... still I have a problem with Kerry voting for it. He should not have been tricked by Bush into thinking that he'd actually wait for any kind of proof or "last resort"! I'd like to think he' s smarter than that... but he believed them and didn't think that they'd quickly go to war like they did, I think. From that position voting against the $84 billion makes sense. Now I do think that once we're in we've got to pay for it and accept the consequences, but until we get rid of Bush (and bring in the UN and give it what it wants) we won't get any significant foreign invenstments in Iraq so we have to pay. We have no choice until Bush is gone.
Calling fellow soldiers criminals? Well in Vietam we did a whole lot of criminal things!
Special interests? Bush saying one word about this is absolutely hilarious and one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. Bush is the biggest pro-special interests person around and trying to stick that label on his opponent... totally outrageous.
And as for the Patriot Act, it was sneaked through right after 9/11, given the name PATRIOT, put to vote before people could really tell all of what was in it... I don't blame anyone for voting for it. They had no clue.