Who told the truth?

[Bandit]

Kerry said Bush* cut funding for anti nuclear proliferation and Bush* said he increased spending by 35%. This should be an easy one to determine. Has the Bush* Administration cut funding for this extremely important program?

[sandnsea]

1. Kerry said it would take 13 years

At the rate Bush is going. That Bush has done less in the last two years than were done the two years before 9/11. Funding is one thing, getting a job done with the allocated money is something else altogether. That's where Bush has failed.

[ant]

2. Bush cut funding for Nunn-Lugar

http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/Publications.asp?p=8&PublicationID=1492

While President Bush proposed expanding Nunn-Lugar programs February 11, his recently released FY 2005 Federal Budget cuts these programs in the Department of Defense by ten percent ($409.2 million this year compared to $450.8 last year). Similarly, the budget for the Department of Energy's programs to secure Russian nuclear materials would decline from the current level of $259 million to $238 in the FY 2005 request, or an 8 percent reduction.

By the way, I've noticed that many in the news are using the discussion over sanctions in Iran as an example of where Bush "won" a point, declaring that Bush was right when he said he didn't start the sanctions policy. While that's true, that wasn't Kerry's point. His point was that unilateral sanctions don't work, and the US needs to bring in other countries to really put pressure on Iran. Two different issues, though I'm not surprised the media missed the complexity there.