The Vice Presidential Debate. My Take

Mr. Cheney did nothing but bully and personally attack Senator Edwards.
Senator Edwards stuck to the facts, The Vice President looked flustered.
Another win for the democrats.

Here are some facts that Mr. Haliburton neglected to tell you:

White House Threatened to Veto $87 Billion.

White House Threatened to Veto $87 Billion. “The White House threatened
Tuesday to veto its own spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan if
Congress made reconstruction aid a loan, taking its most forceful stand
on the issue even as more lawmakers supported a reimbursement by Iraq.
After declining to threaten a veto last week before the Senate voted to
lend up to $10 billion to Iraq, the White House surprised many people on
Capitol Hill with its warning… Mr. Bush called on a series of wavering
lawmakers and made it clear that he would not appreciate a vote for a
loan. The statement on Tuesday, after eight Republican senators defied
him last week and helped form a majority in favor of a $10 billion loan,
was the strongest threat to date. "If this provision is not removed, the
president's senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill,"
Joshua B. Bolten, the White House budget director, wrote in a letter to
Congressional leaders.”

[Firestone, New York Times, 10/22/03]



Cheney Vs. Reality: Weapons Cuts

Cheney: “In 1984 when he ran for the senate and he opposed or called for
the elimination of a great many major weapons systems that were crucial
to winning the cold war and are important today to our overall forces.”
[Vice Presidential Debate, 10/5/04]

Cheney Proposed At Least 81 Weapons Programs Cuts as Secretary of
Defense, Including the Following:
- Cheney proposed to cut the F-16
- Cheney proposed to cut the F-14D
- Cheney proposed to cut the F-14A
- Cheney proposed to cut the F-15
- Cheney proposed to cut the B-2
- Cheney proposed to cut the AH-64 Apache Helicopter
- Cheney proposed to cut the M-1 Abrams tanks
- Cheney proposed to cut the C-17 Air Cargo transport planes
- Cheney proposed to cut the B-52 bombers
[Washington Post, 1/13/90; Boston Globe, 1/30/90; Chicago Tribune,
1/30/90; Boston Globe, 4/27/90; NY Times, 1/8/91; Newsday, 2/5/91;
Chicago Tribune, 2/20/91; Boston Globe, 2/5/91; Star-Tribune, 2/2/92;
Aerospace Daily, 8/17/92]