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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command

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To: American Spirit who wrote (16191)	10/7/2004 8:27:21 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) of 27181

Cheney Trounces Edwards on National Security Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004 11:33 p.m. EDT Thirty minutes into Tuesday night's vice presidential debate this much was clear: If John Edwards had to face Dick Cheney as opposing legal counsel in the civil suits that made him a millionaire - he'd be penniless today. Cheney repeatedly used Edwards as a Kerry surrogate, painting the Massachusetts Democrat as a man with no core convictions who blows with the political winds. Best line of the evening: Cheney explaining Kerry's conversion from hawk to dove on the Iraq war as a reaction to the success of Howard Dean's anti-war campaign. "If they couldn't stand up to Howard Dean, how can they stand up to al Qaida?" Cheney wondered. While Edwards came out swinging, it wasn't long before the experienced vice president had thrown him back on the defensive. The sharpest exchange came when Edwards insisted that the U.S. had incurred 90 percent of the causalities in the Iraq war, ignoring allied soldiers also killed in the fighting. CHENEY: That's a classic example - he won't count the contribution and the sacrifice of our Iraqi allies. It's their country, they're in the fight, they're increasingly the ones out there putting their necks on the line . . . . They're doing a superb job. And for you to demean their sacrifice, it strikes me as beyond the pale . . . EDWARDS: Oh, I'm not demeaning their sacrifice. No, sir . . . CHENEY: It is indeed. You suggested that somehow they shouldn't count because you want to be able to say that the Americans are taking 90 percent of the sacrifice. You cannot succeed in this effort if you're unwilling to recognize the enormous contribution the Iraqis are increasingly making to their own future.

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