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   From: gymraven@hotmail.com   
      
   BUSH FICTION: John Kerry misstated his own   
   position on Cuba, saying that he voted for Helms   
   Burton when he didn't.   
      
   FACT: In 1995 John Kerry voted twice for the   
   Helms Burton law; but voted against it on final   
   passage in 1996 when House Republicans insisted   
   on an unworkable lawsuit provision that would   
   clog our courts and prevent some claims from ever   
   being settled. He preferred to support the existing   
   international claims tribunals. Since passing the   
   law, the lawsuit provision has never gone into   
   effect because the Bush administration, and the   
   Clinton administration before it has blocked it   
   from taking effect. The Miami Herald, which   
   favored passage of Cuban sanctions at the time,   
   called the lawsuit provisions "perverse." [Editorial,   
   Miami Herald, 10/20/1995]   
      
   http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/archives/week_2004_03_14.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)