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Originally posted by bilmore
The most-attempted defense of Kerry's votes regarding funding of military programs all center on "he had to vote that way because of what else was in the bills." Slave's memo makes it clear that defeating the funding for virtually every large weapon program was Kerry's explicit goal - it didn't just happen as an unfortunate byproduct of protecting baby seals.
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But as noted in the FactCheck webpage, the Kerry votes against the weapons systems were in 1990, 1995 and 1996, and Kerry voted
FOR Pentagon authorization bills in 16 of the 19 years he's been in the Senate. Were the votes on those weapons systems held only in those three years?
