Remember Bush attacking Kerry on the Bradley Fighting Vehicles?

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Bush Ad: National Version

"Weapons"

Bush: I’m George W. Bush and I approve this message.

Announcer: As our troops defend America in the War on Terror, they must have what it takes to win. Yet, John Kerry has repeatedly opposed weapons vital to winning the War on Terror: Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Patriot Missiles, B-2 Stealth Bombers, F-18 Fighter Jets and more.


the worm turns,


Army Slashes Abrams, Bradley Funding

28-Feb-2006

Eleventh hour cuts to the Army's portion of the fiscal year 2006 supplemental spending request stripped billions of dollars for key improvements to Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, setting back service plans to modernize the force and threatening to break assembly lines that upgrade these front-line combat systems, according to Pentagon documents and industry officials.

Last-minute efforts by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to trim the Pentagon's supplemental request down to $65.3 billion in mid-February forced the Army to slash more than $2 billion from its combat tracked vehicle lines, according to Pentagon officials.

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,89479,00.html

[NJmaverick]

1. So typical of the republicans

Accuse your opponent of the crimes they are guilty of!

[emulatorloo]

2. Classic Projection -- see this digby piece called Cutthoats:

digby's characterizes it as "Projection Politics," where Rove et al takes the worst of his candidate and projects it on the opposing candidate. Something that was very clear to me in 04, but difficult for me to articulate as well as digby.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_digbysblog_archive.html#114055971426709850

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Cutthroats

by digby


Both Kos and Atrios linked to this post about how Rove smeared John Kerry fior allegedly being in cahoots with Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammed. It was bullshit, of course, and now we find out that Rove's buddy Abramoff was selling Bush face time and cut a deal for a meeting with Mahathir for 1.2 mil. (And to think the Republicans had coronaries about those silly "white house coffees.")

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Update: When I went to put up the links, I realized that Atrios had written "Always project. Always." it reminded me of a post I did before the election called "Projection Politics" in which I noted that Rove doesn't actually attack the strengths of his opponents, as he like to say he does:

Rove has developed a campaign of projection in which he tars his opponents with his own candidates' weaknesses and then attacks them.

He attacks Kerry for phony heroism thirty years ago when just last year his own candidate had himself filmed in a little costume prancing around on an aircraft carrier pretending he'd won a war that had only begun. But, by tarring Kerry with using war as a PR stunt for his own personal gain, people can process the uncomfortable feelings they are experiencing about Iraq as not really being caused by Junior, but by his rival who is the real shallow opportunist who only pretends to be a man of proven leadership and experience.

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[NJmaverick]

3. Outstanding analysis

That describes what they do to a tee!

[wicket]

5. It's their MO

n/t

[Squatch]

4. that's because of the fcs push

google future combat system