Has everyone read the RNC's Gillespie speech?

[wuushew]

Pure propaganda however many clues are being dropped as to the tone and nature of the upcoming smear campaign. John Kerry in particular is being accused of slashing the intelligence budgets and in(directly)? causing acts of terror against the United States.


http://www.rnc.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=3854

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Tough one to pin on the Democrats.

It's all in the Washington Post archives. When Clinton came into office there was a cry from the public to downsize government. The Democratic controlled legislature was in the very process of doing just that. In particular, there was one Paul Woolsey (sp) who was CIA director in the 92-93 time frame and who resisted the Senate attempts to get the CIA to stop spending billions of dollars on satellite technology which Woolsey wanted to use to spy on the Russians. (Apparently you can't teach an old dog new tricks.) Woolsey continued to butt heads with the Democratic controlled Congress and Clinton because the latter two preferred a change to human intelligence techniques instead of high tech satellites.

You want to know why the CIA failed us? Because we had pinheads like Woolsey who refused to realize that they were outdated -- dinosaurs. People who had spent their entire lives training against the Soviet evil empire only to find they were no longer needed once the wall came down. And also because the FBI started to canabalize the CIA during the Congressional hearings and they got even more defensive. (I think the CIA's super mole was called Ames, where the FBI's super mole was called Hanson.)

Oh, and then the media made things worse by reporting that the Democrats were not cutting spending fast enough. Thus entered in the era of the Newt Gingrich generation and reality t.v. impeachment proceedings where they voted to kick Clinton off the D.C. island.

What a waste of a peace dividend.

[buycitgo]

4. well.....how about THIS?

while the pugs LIE about dems' cutting defense/intel spending, THIS doesn't get much traction outside the dark dungeons of liberal websites:

Yet even while he was making war on Iraq, Cheney was carrying out the largest peacetime military-force reduction in history. By the time he left office in 1993, he had cut America's armed forces by half a million men and women. !!!!!!
Key to this massive downsizing was hiring out traditional military jobs to companies like Brown and Root. Under Cheney, the Pentagon paid Brown and Root $8.9 million in 1992 for two studies on how this might be done. Shortly after that, the company won an exclusive worldwide contract for military logistical support, everything from runways to toilets, hamburgers, and laundry service—the first such contract ever given to a civilian group. In Blackhawk Down-era Somalia in 1993, Brown and Root had such a large U.S. Army support contract that it briefly became the largest employer in Africa. In 1996 fully 13 percent of the $1.9 billion budgeted by the Pentagon for Bosnia went to Brown and Root.

But by then Cheney was no longer working for the government: He was running Brown and Root, having taken a job in October 1995 as chairman of the board and CEO of Halliburton, whose Brown and Root subsidiary accounted for about a third of its revenue. (He had tested the waters for a run at the 1996 Republican presidential nomination but managed to raise only $1 million of the $20 million he thought he would need to win.) On paper, Halliburton and Cheney were a perfect match. The company's hard-boiled, ultraconservative Texas-based culture had spread itself throughout a world in which Dick Cheney was well known, if not always revered: More than 40 percent of Halliburton's revenues came from overseas, much of it from Arab nations and nations of the old Soviet bloc. "He would be able to open doors around the world and to have access practically anywhere," says Thomas H. Cruikshank, the former chairman of Halliburton who hired Cheney. "There was a lot that he could bring in the way of customer relationships." Cheney had never run a business before. But that's not what Halliburton's overseers wanted. They wanted a rainmaker.

http://legalpr.com/fredbaronoct02texasmonthly.html

funny how none of this gets brought up in the liberal media

WHY don't the dems answer back with THIS......EVERY time they mention Kerry's supposed weakness on defense????

this is a SCATHING fricking article about Cheney, BTW, actually concentrating on his UNETHICAL/ILLEGAL activities while head of

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I tell you, it's bad business allowing these private sector sharks to

jump back and forth from the public to private sector. I think it was better when we had true public servants. Their loyalty was to the country, not to a corporation.

And btw, the first congressman to propose military closings was Dick Armey in the late 1980s. He was a Republican.

[kodi]

2. ashcroft's 9/10/01 submitted budget reduced terrorist fighting by $30M

look it up. the day before the wtc went down, the justice dept submitted its budget proposal for 2002 and it reduced funding for anti-terrorist programs by $30M.

Gillespie should have this fact driven straight into his forehead.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Gillespie doesn't have anything on Ann Coulter.

Really, their MO and all the pipes in the RNC Wurlitzer will be playing their single note for all its worth in this election: Democrats are Traitors.

But it is these modern day McCarthyites who are the true anti-Americans. After 30 years, this is getting stale. The facts show which party is screwing the middle class and destroying the US international reputation. It is a Republican Congress, Executive, and SCOTUS that has accelerated our demise because of policies based on personal politics and economic self-interest.

And I think all Americans are wising up to this.

[rhino47]

6. Eww followed link.Someone delouse me

:puke: :puke: :puke:
I did however email PUKE in Chief and asked him if its true
that phone fund raising was outsourced to India .