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[Sparkly]

1. I'm glad to see this one debunked in such great detail!!

There are a lot of variations of it going around, it seems. Good job by the Kerry camp once again! :)

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[DrFunkenstein]

3. Here's Some Flip-Side Resources

Here's Cheney's crony, Paul Woflowitz in 2003:

I gave a quite substantial briefing to Secretary Cheney and what was then called I guess the Defense Resources Board on a post-Cold War defense strategy, the essence of which was to shift from a strategy for being prepared to fight a global war, to being focused on two possible regional conflicts. And to downsize the U.S. military by some 40 percent.

When we did a revised draft that in fact I had reviewed carefully, the State Department initially didn't want us to put it out, I think because it was a little too much. But in January of 1993 as we were about to leave, I said to Cheney don't you think we should publish it? And he said yes, we should. So it's available in the full text as the Regional Defense Strategy of January, 1993.

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030509-...

From Seymour Hersh's "Did Bush Let Taliban & Al-Qaeda Escape?":

American intelligence officials and high-ranking military officers said that Pakistanis were indeed flown to safety, in a series of nighttime airlifts that were approved by the Bush Administration. The Americans also said that what was supposed to be a limited evacuation apparently slipped out of control, and, as an unintended consequence, an unknown number of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters managed to join in the exodus. "Dirt got through the screen," a senior intelligence official told me.

The Bush Administration may have done more than simply acquiesce in the rescue effort: at the height of the standoff, according to both a C.I.A. official and a military analyst who has worked with the Delta Force, the American commando unit that was destroying Taliban units on the ground, the Administration ordered the United States Central Command to set up a special air corridor to help insure the safety of the Pakistani rescue flights from Kunduz to the northwest corner of Pakistan, about two hundred miles away. The order left some members of the Delta Force deeply frustrated.

http://www.rense.com/general19/al.htm

And, of course, you have the quote from my signature line about Bush's cheapskate debacle at Tora Bora.

Bush talk of being "tough on terrorism" is a house of cards. This is taken as a given only because it was established during the media's suck-ass phase, and never questioned since. The truth is that Bush has run a completely incompetent campaign agaist (stateless) terrorism from Tora Bora straight to Baghdad, largely the result of the failures of the Rumsfeld Doctrine.

Kerry's fight against terrorism is not flashy like a peacock, it is competent. That's what a "war on terror" requires - not tough talk, but competence.



By the way, you're doing a great job, PeteNYC.

[RDObran]

4. Why isn't Kerry using this??

I've not heard much Kerry response to the Bush campaign questioning Kerry's military senate votes. Why isn't Kerry responding with these facts???

[JI7]

5. uh, HE IS , these are from the Kerry campaign

[Tarheelhombre]

7. He needs to put it in some Ads

Uh,the DNC needs to, I mean.

[oasis]

6. kick