Later yesterday, in response to the president's comments, Ma said the KMT agreed with Chen that national defense is crucial for the country, but called on the president to stop painting the pan-blue camp as "red," or pro-China.
"We have already started reviewing the 2007 national defense budget ... As to the 2006 supplemental budget, we have repeated many times that we basically support sending the bill for legislative review," Ma said at Taipei City Hall.
"We will deal with the bills in this session. But President Chen would get a better response if he stopped smearing the pan-blue camp as being `red,'" Ma said.
Additional reporting by Mo Yan-chih
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