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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 12:19 AM
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So who has the list of Weapons Kerry voted for?
I am told it is being compiled. Anyone, seen it yet?
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BayCityProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 12:32 AM
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1. I am proud of his military stands
Pentagon pork has gotten so insane it is sickening. Expect the media to tear him apart over it though, many fo them are part of the military complex.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 12:39 AM
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2. faux news
"In one 1990 debate, Kerry pushed for cuts in an anti-satellite weapons system, which had increased in cost from $73 million to a proposed $208 million in a single year."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112296,00.html
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Nicholas_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 01:11 AM
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5. B2 Bomber went up even more than that
n/t

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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 01:17 AM
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6. A lot of good anti-satellite weapons did us on 9/11.
Kerry is absolutely correct in challenging dumb Republican pork like Star Wars. The threat today will not be nation-states launching ICBMs, it's terrorist-criminal groups who can light off a few well placed bombs, then watch the financial markets react in a meltdown.
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 01:01 AM
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3. Kerry On Military Pork
When I first came to the Senate, each year millions upon millions of dollars were lavished on a wool and mohair subsidy cooked up during WWI to make sure we’d have plenty of wool and mohair for our soldiers’ uniforms. But even after we stopped making our uniforms out of wool and mohair, the subsidy continued. I came to the Senate floor again and again - finally we killed it. Or we thought we did. Last year it came back. This kind of wasteful, no-growth, special interest giveaway is alive and well -- again. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

We were presented a defense bill that gave away $250,000 to an Illinois firm to research caffeinated chewing gum; $750,000 for grasshopper research in Alaska; $250,000 for a lettuce geneticist in Salinas, California and $64,000 for urban pest research in Georgia. This is our defense budget?
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Nicholas_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 01:10 AM
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4. I know that
He voted against the Patriot Missile system becaue all of the text showed it was more likely to destroy our own aircraft than any missile it was fired at. The B-2 Bomber because it was already going into the highest cost over-runs in history and would be outdated and in need of replacing by the time the first plane came off the assembly lines.

In his vote aganst the satellite defense system (Star Wars) he wnated the funds to go to other, more viable defense systems.

I was just reading earlier a list of items he did support on either Yahoo or MSNBC's page but it is gone from the main page, so will have to hunt it down.
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