AP (Calvin Woodward) Actually Debunks Bush, Cheney, & Miller - Journalism?

[DrFunkenstein]

He took some license in telling Americans that Democratic opponent John Kerry "is running on a platform of increasing taxes." Kerry would, in fact, raise taxes on the richest 2 percent of Americans as part of a plan to keep the Bush tax cuts for everyone else and even cut some of them more. That's not exactly a tax-increase platform.

On Iraq, Bush derided Kerry for devaluing the alliance that drove out Saddam Hussein and is trying to rebuild the country. "Our allies also know the historic importance of our work," Bush said. "About 40 nations stand beside us in Afghanistan, and some 30 in Iraq."

But the United States has more than five times the number of troops in Iraq than all the other countries put together. And, with 976 killed, Americans have suffered nearly eight times more deaths than the other allies combined.

Bush aggressively defended progress in Afghanistan, too. "Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders ... and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer."

Nowhere did Bush mention Osama bin Laden, nor did he account for the replacement of killed and captured al al-Qaida leaders by others.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=7&u=/ap/cvn_bush_fact_check

The article goes on to shoot down major deceptions (cough, lies, cough) by Cheney and Miller. Did the Bush campaign start smearing too early or is the Kerry campaign getting more aggressive with their rapid-response team?

[LeftofU]

1. " a power beyond the stars"

What? Darth Vader? Buck Rodgers?........

[tibbir]

2. I can't believe it! I rated the story but it's only 2.88 right now.

[LittleApple81]

3. I think that they have a freeper robot to freep the important articles.

You cannot vote that fast if it is a single human being.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Ooops! There goes that big bounce! n/t

[A_Possum]

5. Washington Post has a debunk article too

GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions

President Bush, Cheney and Miller faulted Kerry for voting against body armor for troops in Iraq. But much of the funding for body armor was added to the bill by House Democrats, not the administration, and Kerry's vote against the entire bill was rooted in a dispute with the administration over how to pay for $20 billion earmarked for reconstruction of Iraq.

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I like the note that the funding for body armor was added by Dems. :-)