These are typical Republican distortions of Kerry's voting record!
Throughout Kerry's early Senate years he often voted against specific
weapons systems and sometimes against the entire Pentagon budget.
Republicans shouldn't make too much of these votes, however, since
President Bush's own father announced in his 1992 State of the Union
address that he would be ceasing further production of B-2 bombers and
MX missiles, and would cut military spending by 30 percent over several
years.

Kerry has a point when he says "I've voted for some of the largest
defense and intelligence budgets in our history," which is correct. He's
voted for military spending bills regularly since 1997. Since 1996, the
John Kerry who once opposed the Apache helicopter and wanted to cut
Tomahawk cruise-missile funds by 50% has evolved into a steady supporter
of military budgets. Starting in 1997 Kerry voted for every regular
Department of Defense appropriations bill and for every authorization
bill as well.

See http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=147 for the truth,
instead of the distortions and outright lies being spread by the Bush
supporters.


"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message
...
Don't forget -- John Kerry is strong on defense:
He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank
He voted to kill every Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
He voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system
He voted to Kill the F-15 strike eagle
He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16
He voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade
He voted to Kill the B-1
He voted to Kill the B-2
He voted to Kill the Patriot anti Missile system
He voted to Kill the FA-18
He voted to Kill the B-2
He voted to Kill the F117

In short, he voted to kill every military Appropriation for the
development
and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988 to include the
battle
armor for our troops.

With Kerry as president our Army will be made up of naked men
running
around
with sticks and clubs. He also voted to kill all anti terrorism
activities

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