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On a precipice
October 6, 2004

Now that the first presidential debate is over, we can quibble over style or substance, but I would much rather go to the facts. In 1995 Sen. Kerry voted to slash FBI funding by $80 million. Kerry proposed cutting $1 billion from the national intelligence program and tactical budgets. This is just a sample and is on the record.
Can we trust someone who speaks out of both sides of his mouth just to get elected? The country is on a precipice. Whom will you trust, a slick talker or a man who lives his values every day and speaks from the conviction of his heart and makes tough decisions without looking at the polls?

Les Davis
Bangs
source: http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/op_letters_editor/article/0,1874,ABIL_7984_3232648,00.html
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Our enemies

Date: November 19, 2004
Publication: Abilene Reporter-News (TX)

The Nov. 14 Abilene Reporter-News editorial on the laws of war was more like bloviating than fact.

First, this is the first time in our history that ''the enemy'' does not have a home base of operations, and there are more than 1.4 billion Muslims in the world. Are there problems? Sure. But one must understand the very nature of our enemy is that they know and use our laws to their advantage, coupled with activist judges nominated by President Clinton.

The Geneva...
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Justified involvement
Date: September 22, 2004
Publication: Abilene Reporter-News (TX)

This is in response to Bob Hanna's Sept. 19 paid advertisement in the Abilene Reporter-News: Without our financial aid, military equipment and American troops, the geographics would be quite different.

The only reason we are hated around the world is because we as a people are the most industrious and ingenious in the world, bar none. Lest Hanna forgets, we were attacked by terrorists. Sure, we make mistakes, but no other nation in the world ever has contributed to the world as we have, ...
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