[quote name='Ruined'][quote name='spyhunterk19'][quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']
2. Kerry voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it.
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ok
For the last shaq-fuing time, you cant condense a senate vote into a freaking sentance! Its more complicated than ANY of us would EVER like to have to know[/quote]
Ok, here is a better one.
Kerry voted for the troops to go to war then irresponsibly voted against funding them while they most needed it. Better?
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One more time for the nuanced-impaired - Kerry voted against the initial $87 billion troop fund bill because there was a separate bill that called for repealing the tax cuts for the
top 2% to pay for the funds. Because you see, unlike Bush, Kerry knew damn well that Iraqi oil was never going to pay for the war like the administration promised. Kerry didn't want to run up the defict further, you know,
fiscal responsibility. Bush threatened to veto the funding bill Kerry favored because he didn't want to upset his base. The difference is Kerry was one vote out of 100 and he knew that one of the two versions of funding would pass and the troops would be funded. Bush was threatening to veto the more fiscal responsible bill which would have cut funds off for the soldiers. So if anyone in this scenario was going to screw over the troops, it was Bush. Now I don't believe for a minute that either one would have gone on record doing anything to deny funding for the troops. This was solely an argument over how to pay for the funding and Bush is twisting it to claim kerry doesn't support soldiers which is ludicrous.