Kerry To Fight Future Wars With Spitballs (See AP Follow Up)

[DrFunkenstein]

Miller, D-Ga., said Kerry had voted to cut key weapon systems. "This is a man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. armed forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?" Miller said.

In those remarks, Miller ignored the cuts in military spending that Vice President Dick Cheney pushed as defense secretary under the first President Bush. Cheney canceled the Navy F-14D Tomcat fighter and sent Congress a budget that proposed curtailing production of the B-2.

He sneered at Kerry's proposal that the United States seek consensus before going to war, with the United Nations and other nations. "Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide," Miller said.

Miller, a former Marine, also accused the Democrats of putting soldiers in danger just to get at Bush.

"While young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief," he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=6&u=/ap/cvn_zell_miller

[NJCher]

1. ugly words from an ugly man

Cher

[liveoaktx]

2. I guess he would sneear to W's daddy, then ,too, about the UN

consensus, wouldn't he? What an IDIOT!

[blm]

3. Miller's speech was VETTED by the White House.

Important to note.

Miller was doing what they WANTED. Don't let Bush off the hook. He knew and approved what was said.

[DrFunkenstein]

4. I'm Sure It Was Totally Off The Cuff

Rove is a pretty laid back kind of guy when it comes to the messages coming out of the Republican National Convention. He probably just gave the Democrat the green light to do whatever he felt like.