March 11, 2004
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A Half-Right Leader
For the Record
President Overstates Kerry’s Record on Intelligence Budget
By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 12, 2004
President Bush, in his first major assault on Sen. John F. Kerry’s legislative record, said this week that his Democratic opponent proposed a $1.5 billion cut in the intelligence budget, a proposal that would “gut the intelligence services,” and one that had no co-sponsors because it was “deeply irresponsible.”
In terms of accuracy, the parry by the president is about half right…..
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And of course the President made no mention of how he’s able to connect the security situation in 1996 to the security situation in 2004, such that he can assume Kerry would do the same thing in the next four years.
Pure hand-waving, is what it is.