Bush goes for the Medium Lie
He's too small a person for The Big Lie technique to apply.
Campaign Gets More Personal
Bush Airs Attack Ad as Kerry Accuses Him of 'Credibility Gap'
By John F. Harris
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 17, 2004; Page A09
CHARLESTON, W.Va., March 16 -- The presidential election took a sharply personal turn Tuesday, as President Bush aired a new television ad accusing Democrat John F. Kerry of turning his back on troops in Iraq while Kerry accused the administration of creating a "credibility gap" by misleading the public on issues including weapons of mass destruction and the cost of a new Medicare drug benefit.
"Nothing is more important than telling the American people the truths about the economy, health care, and issues of war and peace," Kerry told an audience in Huntington, W.Va. "This president's misleading misstatements have produced a credibility gap as big as the New River Gorge," a West Virginia natural attraction.
Bush's TV ad accused Kerry of voting against legislation to pay for military needs in Iraq after originally supporting the U.S. invasion.
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On January 16, 2003, the Bush Administration announced it would cut access to health care benefits for 160,000 middle-income veterans due to budget constraints.
In other cases, injured solders were denied active duty pay and medical benefits.
"The people who ordered up this war are the ones who ought to finance its aftermath. Yet when the Senate had a chance to vote on Oct. 2 for an amendment that would pay the postwar costs by temporarily reducing the tax cut for the wealthiest slice of Americans -- the less than 1 percent who made $400,000 a year -- it was rejected, 57-42."
Under Bush, Body Armor For Troops In Short Supply: By asking for the money for body armor in a supplemental appropriations bill 7 months after the war began, the Administration is acknowledging that troops spent the most dangerous period of the war WITHOUT this armor.
“When the Saddam Hussein government collapsed, U.S. troops in Iraq figured the war was over, except for some mopping up. But as the acting secretary of the Army, Les Brownlee, acknowledged to Congress last week, ‘we simply were not prepared’ for the insurgency that developed in early summer, prolonging the war and taking the lives of hundreds of American soldiers. One 3rd Infantry soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Eric Wright, put it this way in Iraq last June: ‘What was told to us was that we would fight and win and go home.’ It's not that simple.”
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