Dumb GOP E-Mai for Today

This one isn't even signed by anyone. I just don't know if I can trust this message without Ed's signature being on it...

John Kerry and his running mate John Edwards became two of only four U.S. Senators who voted for the use of force resolution against Iraq and against the $87 billion supplemental supporting our troops. 

So far Kerry has explained his Oct. 17th vote nine different ways and has said everything from "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" to declaring he was "proud" he voted against it.  Most recently Kerry said it was a "mistake" how he "talked about" his vote against the $87 billion.  The real "mistake" was Kerry's decision to vote for the war and then vote against supporting our troops serving in that war. 

IT WAS NOT A VOTE FOR WAR!

Really, how many times does that need to be said. Authorization to use force as a last possible option. That doesn't sound like "Yeeeeeehaaaaaw! We're going to war!" to me. But let's say it was that, just for the sake of argument.

REALITY: White House Threatened to Veto $87 Billion if Congress Made the Funds a Loan. George Bush repeatedly says on the campaign trail that “There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat.” But “The White House threatened … to veto its own spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan if Congress made reconstruction aid a loan, taking its most forceful stand on the issue even as more lawmakers supported a reimbursement by Iraq. … ‘If this provision is not removed, the president's senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill,’ Joshua B. Bolten, the White House budget director, wrote in a letter to Congressional leaders.” [Bush remarks, 9/13/04; New York Times, 10/22/03]

Why would Bush threaten to veto funding his own war? Iraq is his war. He owns it. We all know it wasn't necessary and that the entire thing has been a fiasco.

What kind of message does that send to the troops? That we care about them! That they should be sent to war without having a reason. And by reason I mean a truthful reason. We're does Mr Nation Guard get off saying that a real war veteran doesn't know what troops think when they are in battle?

UPDATE: The GOP caught me before coffee and a shower. Force authorization and funding were different bills. Of course I know that.