BUSH EMBRACING (HAND GRENADE) ZELL MILLER

[volosong]

Fine. Bush embracing the Wizard of Hate.

Wonderful news for us.

Destroy Miller in the press. We all know the truth. Here is a recapitulation of some points...


(1) ZELL MILLER IS A FLIP FLOPPER

Praised John Kerry as courageous, righteous, champion of the middle class at the Democratic Party of Georgia Jefferson Jackson Dinner in 2001.

In 1996, Zell Miller said, “the Republicans sold us out…they gave themselves the goldmine, and they gave the rest of us the shaft!”

(2) MILLER DISTORTED & FALSIFIED KERRY'S STATMENTS

What Kerry really said -- in his own acceptance speech -- is this: "I will never hesitate to use force when it is required. Any attack will be met with a swift and certain response. I will never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security." That's the opposite of what Miller said Kerry "made clear."

Miller didn't say that Kerry voted against the weapons on the lst he rattled off, only that he opposed them.

Zell Miller: “Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts. The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.”

FACT: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to Capitol Hill June 28 to defend the President's FY 2002 defense budget request before committees in both houses of Congress. Both in the Senate and House Armed Services Committees he met stiff opposition, principally over two facets of the defense proposal: missile defense and cuts in the B-1 bomber program.Rumsfeld replied that the decision was made by the Air Force, which wanted to go from 93 B-1 bombers down to 60 and to change the basing mode from five down to two to save funds and use the savings to upgrade the remaining B-1 bombers. He noted that he was the secretary of defense in 1960 when the B-1 bomber program was first approved.http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-se0213.html

Zell Miller: “The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.”

FACT: Cheney Proposed Cuts to B-2 Program, According to the RNC, B-2s Were Crucial to Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to the Boston Globe, in 1990, "Defense Secretary Richard Cheney announced a cutback... of nearly 45 percent in the administration's B-2 Stealth bomber program, from 132 airplanes to 75..." (Boston Globe, 4/27/90; From RNC Research Memo, "Kerry's Military: As He Would Like It," 7/18/03

Zell Miller: “The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.”

FACT: The F-14D Tomcat program was cut by "Secretary Cheney" and all F-14D tomcat production was officially terminated in March 1990.
<http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8629/14var.htm>

Zell Miller: “The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican. Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.”

FACT: According to the RNC, AH-64 Apache Helicopters Were Crucial to Operation Iraqi Freedom.In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee,Cheney said, “This is just a list of some of the programs that I've recommended termination: the V-22 Osprey, the F-14D, the Army Helicopter Improvement Program, Phoenix missile, F-15E, the Apache helicopter, the M1 tank, et cetera.” In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Cheney said, “The Army, as I indicated in my earlier testimony,
recommended to me that we keep a robust Apache helicopter program going forward, AH-64…I forced the Army to make choices…So I recommended that we cancel the AH-64 program two years out.”

Zell Miller: “I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against.”

FACT: Kerry supported at least $10 billion in defense authorizations for the Patriot program. Kerry has supported at least $53 billion defense authorizations for the Aegis program Congressional Quarterly Almanacs, 1986-2002; House Armed Service Committee Authorization
Conference Report Summaries; Conference Reports for Defense Authorizations, FY1986 –present)

(3) Zell Miller's comments were rebuffed by Laura Bush, who after hearing his tirade said, "I don't think that he (Miller) is one of us." The nation should agree with Laura.

[cheshire]

1. Maybe they will self explode.

[volosong]

3. THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH DEMOCRATS

they sit back and wait for people to explode. most of the time it doesn't work that way or the "explosion" is just a pop.

[joefree1]

2. Zig Zag Miller is a rascist pig?

To give you an idea of how rightwing Miller actually is, he served as executive secretary to Lester Maddox, the crude segregationist governor of Georgia. Miller himself was a segregationist. "As a Congressional candidate in 1964, Miller not only pledged to vote against the Civil Rights Act, he attacked those who were pushing it," according to the American Progress Action Fund. "He said President Lyndon Johnson 'is a Southerner who has sold his birthright for a mess of dark porridge.' "

http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx0902c204.html

[Lourde_Green]

4. Aren't they all?

So he's a racist pig...it fights right into the nature of the true GOP, they've been coddling racism since the 60's. Thurmond, Lott, etc.And he's gonna sully the name of the party by not doing us a favor and leaving. Bastage.

ROT IN HELL, ZELL!!

[oasis]

5. Zell can rot in hell, but let's get tell tale pix with Chimpy for a spell.

:bounce: