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and intelligence?” Regarding defense Mr. Kerry has voted for Pentagon authorization bills 16 of the 19 years that he’s been in the Senate. In 1984 when Mr. Kerry first ran for the Senate he opposed weapons systems including the Apache helicopter, but so more recently did Mr. Cheney. Does that make Mr. Cheney soft on defense? The Kerry/Edwards platform in fact calls for increasing military troop strength by 40,000.
• With regard to intelligence, Mr. Kerry proposed cuts in intelligence in the mid-90s but at a time when the efficiency of national intelligence agencies was being questioned. The amount was rela ively small (about 1 percent of the estimated total) and in fact an amendment proposed by Republicans to cut 2/3 of that amount was passed by the Senate. Looking to the future it is Mr. Kerry, not Mr. Bush, who has fully endorsed the recommendations on intelligence made by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
Finally we come to “flipflop”, a pejorative term for flexibility that Republicans now like to use when it suits them. Did Mr. Bush “flip-flop” when he finally decided to bring in the United Nations to handle
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