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Bush blasts 1995 Kerry intelligence bill

By SCOTT LINDLAW
The Associated Press
3/8/2004, 6:22 p.m. ET


DALLAS (AP) — President Bush on Monday accused John Kerry of having proposed "deeply irresponsible" cuts in intelligence spending just two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center, part of a re-election effort to depict his Democratic rival as weak on national security and the war against terrorism.


Bush, during a fund-raiser in Dallas, called attention to a 1995 bill that Kerry sponsored to trim intelligence spending by $1.5 billion over five years. The cut was part of what Kerry called a "budget-buster bill" to strip $90 billion from the budget and end 40 programs that he said were "pointless, wasteful, antiquated or just plain silly."

Kerry's proposal, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and calls for a peace dividend after decades of spending to thwart the Cold War opponent, never came up for a vote.

"This bill was so deeply irresponsible that it didn't have a single co-sponsor in the United States Senate," Bush said.


The rest here:
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/base/politics-2/1078760640300850.xml

The Washington Posty did as peice on this issue today

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4509529/

The $1.5 billion cut Kerry proposed represented about the same amount Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Senate that same day he wanted cut from the intelligence spending bill based on unspent, secret funds that had been accumulated by one intelligence agency "without informing the Pentagon, CIA or Congress." The NRO, which designs, builds and operates spy satellites, had accumulated that amount of excess funds.

as to co sponsors ....

Bush's charge that Kerry's broader defense spending reduction bill had no co-sponsors is true, but not because it was seen as irresponsible, as the president suggested. Although Kerry's measure was never taken up, Specter's plan to reduce the NRO's funds, which Kerry co-sponsored with Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), did become law as part of a House-Senate package endorsed by the GOP leadership.

sorry more smoke an mirrors oh yeah and attempts to mislead the American public again

>>>but not because it was seen as irresponsible, as the president suggested

A bad report. What, are we expected to just take this "reporters" word for it? He did NOT back up this bald faced statement. He just SAYS it.

PROVE that it wasn't left without cosponsors because it was irresponsible! The "reporter" doesn't attempt to do that, he just says it as if it were gospel.

And his following segment does not go anywhere to explain the former! He was talking about an entirely different bill that sponsored cuts in different things and in different ways.

This is just plain BAD reporting written to make you think you read truth but in reality all you got was the "reporters" feelings that Kerry wasn't standing all alone and ignored with his foolish bill.

The truth is coming out. Kerry is a radical not fit to be president.

Jez reach behind you and pull firmly to remove head from a*s. If you had read the article you would have found that there was something over 1.5 billion in slush funds unused in the agency. It is what you have to do if you want to solve the mess this country is in financially. There are no sacred cows there cannot be if we are going to survive finacially. Both the GOP and Sen. Kerry were trying to cut the fat. And if you dont think that there is any fat in the government service then you need look no further than the lump of fat between your ears.

Island,

Dood come on back when you can rite in eeenglish!

I didn't understand what you were talking about, the syntax and sentence structure were so bad.

Originally posted by ColWTH
Island,

Dood come on back when you can rite in eeenglish!

I didn't understand what you were talking about, the syntax and sentence structure were so bad.

:scratch:

Was perfectly clear to me. :shrug: