Reply #1: here's another good one by Kaplan, going over that

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Kerry voted to gut intel territory

useful to debunk when THIS lie recirulates

Yesterday, President Bush told a crowd of supporters in Houston that, back in 1995, two years after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Sen. John Kerry introduced legislation to cut the intelligence budget by $1.5 billion. "Once again, Sen. Kerry is trying to have it both ways," the president said. "He's for good intelligence; yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services. And that is no way to lead a nation in a time of war." Bush further charged that Kerry's bill was "so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single-co-sponsor in the United States Senate."

Bush and his operatives are making a practice of mischaracterizing the voting record of the presumptive Democratic nominee. Two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee put out a "Research Brief" that flagrantly distorted Kerry's votes on weapons systems. (Click here* for the real facts.) Bush's remarks yesterday are more dishonest still.

* http://slate.msn.com/id/2096127 /

actual story
http://slate.msn.com/id/2096874 /

don't tear down the door here, mK?