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Originally posted by irateplatypus
if you'll read the first line of my first post on this thread you'll see that i acknowledge the spin of the facts in the ad... but maintain that kerry is still weak on defense independant of those characterizations.
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No, actually you said:
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so kerry didn't specifically vote against the equipment? fine. but it doesn't make it any better that he voted against the equipment plus everything else the bill was intended to support.
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So you were saying that the facts in the ad *were* true, even though, for example, the apache program was cancelled by Cheney, not Kerry, and the armor program was 1/3 of 1 percent of a huge spending bill that Kerry opposed.
I think mml has given you some facts to chew on.