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To: LindyBill who wrote (35322)	3/18/2004 12:26:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793589

NY Post Editorial - ......And, as Vice President Dick Cheney pointed out yesterday in a speech at the Reagan Library in California (excerpted on the previous page), Poland is one of the countries that John Kerry so grossly insulted when he labeled U.S. allies in Iraq "a coalition of the coerced and the bribed" - dismissing their presence there as "window dressing." As Cheney sagely noted, Kerry has expressed "open contempt" for America's allies, who have sacrificed for the freedom of the Iraqi people, and seems to re- spect only countries that "openly oppose America's objectives" "Many questions come to mind," Cheney said. "But the first is this: How would Sen. Kerry describe Great Britain - coerced or bribed? "Or Italy - which recently lost 19 citizens, killed by terrorists in Najas. Was Italy's contribution just 'window dressing?' " "If such dismissive terms are the vernacular of the golden age of diplomacy Sen. Kerry promises, we are left to wonder which nations would care to join any future coalition," said Cheney. During the address, delivered soon after the first video images of the Baghdad bomb hit the airwaves, Cheney also: * Ripped Kerry for his claim that unnamed foreign dignitaries have endorsed him (pointing out that "American voters are the ones charged with determining the outcome of this election - not foreign leaders"). * Questioned Kerry's weirdly contradictory voting record on national security questions (against the Persian Gulf War of 1991; for military action against Saddam in October 2002; against money to fund the reconstruction of Iraq in November 2003). * And criticized the Massachusetts senator's appalling weak-sister voting record on defense spending. However Kerry chooses to "explain away his votes and statements about the war on terror," said Cheney, "[his] is not an impressive record for someone who aspires to become commander-in-chief in this time of testing for our country." A partisan attack? Absolutely. There's an election on, after all. Unfair? Not in the least. Anything less than the truth would be a disservice to America and its allies in the War on Terror. And to the cause of peace.