Bush mislead nation in 2000 debates & CSPAN reairing tonight

[CrowNotAngelGRL]

Someone on a mailing list I'm on wrote this and thought I'd pass it on. They do site sources. Also, tonight on CSPAN they are reairing the debate's.

As President Bush takes the stage tonight for the 2004 presidential
debates, America will be reminded of all the promises Bush made - and
subsequently broke - in his debate performances throughout 2000.

In a 2000 debate, Bush said that "by far the vast majority cuts] go to the bottom end of the economic ladder." According to the
nonpartisan Citizens for Tax Justice, when his tax cuts are fully
implemented in 2010, the top 5 percent of income earners will get
more than half the tax cuts while the bottom half of Americans will
receive less than 8 percent of the benefits.(1)

In a 2000 debate, Bush said he believed gay marriage is a state issue.
(2) Then in 2004, he proposed a constitutional amendment banning gay
marriage.(3)

In a 2000 debate, Bush promised not to overuse the military,
saying "if we don't stop extending our troops all around the world
and nation building missions, then we're going to have a serious
problem coming down the road, and I'm going to prevent that."(4) Now,
because of Bush's actions in Iraq and efforts to cut soldiers' pay,
(5) the military is facing recruitment gaps, (6) morale problems, (7)
and troops who are stretched far too thin.(8)

Sources:
"Details on the Bush Tax Cuts so far," Citizens for Tax Justice, Fall
2003.
"Transcript of the South Carolina Republican Debate," CNN.com,
2/15/00.
"President Calls for Constitutional Amendment Protecting Marriage,"
The White House, 2/24/04.
"The First Presidential Election Debate," AustralianPolitics.com,
10/03/00.
"Troops in Iraq face pay cut Pentagon says tough duty bonuses are
budget-buster," San Francisco Chronicle, 8/14/03.
"Numbers Challenge," ABCNews.com, 6/02/04.
"Troop morale in Iraq hits 'rock bottom'," Christian Science Monitor,
6/07/03.
"Is the Army stretched too thin?," NBC Nightly News, 3/09/04.

[G_j]

1. actually it is from the daily Mis-lead

THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
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here is some more on the subject:

Debating Dubya

As John Kerry and George W. Bush get down to business in their series of three debates, it's worth taking a look back at the 2000 debates for a reminder of the positions Bush took in his three contests with Al Gore.

A number of the topics Bush and Gore spent much of their time debating -- the RU486 pill, the electoral defeat of Slobodan Milosevic, hate-crimes laws -- are unlikely to come up in this round, Kerry would do well to hold Bush accountable for some of his statements on other issues.

For example, Bush spent a fair portion of the 2000 debates criticizing the Clinton administration's "overstretching" of the military and deriding the practice of "nation building." Here are his responses from all three 2000 debates about when U.S. forces should be deployed:


"Well, if it's in our vital national interests. And that means whether or not our territory is threatened or people could be harmed, whether or not our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force. Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear, whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be. Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win; whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped. And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy." (First debate, 10/3/00)

..more..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x945717

[DebJ]

2. CSPAN 1 running it at 10am tomorrow.