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To: D. Long who wrote (35521)	3/19/2004 3:35:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793781

Inside Politics - Washington Times - ....Time to backpedal "Democrat John Kerry [on Wednesday] woke up and realized he was in danger of morphing himself into antiwar fanatic Howard Dean — so he began backpedaling as fast as he could," the New York Post's Deborah Orin writes. "Kerry hastily repudiated Dean's bid to blame President Bush for the al Qaeda-suspected Madrid bombings. " 'It's not our position,' Kerry declared shortly after his spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, had defended Dean's remarks. "Then Kerry issued a surprise plea to Spain's newly elected Socialist prime minister to 'reconsider' his decision to yank Spanish troops out of Iraq. "Kerry probably felt a special need to distance himself from Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who's the only foreign leader to publicly say he's rooting for Kerry to beat Bush — because of Iraq. "Until now, Kerry has tried to draw a distinction between the battle against terror, which he backs, and the Iraq war, which he blasts. "Kerry's problem is that the Madrid bombings link the two and make Spain look as if it's appeasing terrorists." Cheney's rebuttal Vice President Dick Cheney not only gave Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry a tongue-lashing Wednesday, he accused the New York Times of inaccurate reporting. Brit Hume of Fox News, in an interview with the vice president, noted that CIA Director George J. Tenet was on Capitol Hill last week, "and his testimony there led us to a news story that appeared in the New York Times, which began as follows: 'George J. Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence told the Senate committee on Tuesday that he had privately intervened on several occasions to correct what he regarded as public misstatements on intelligence by Vice President Dick Cheney and others. And he said that he would do so again.' "Is that consistent with what happened, as you recall it?" Mr. Hume asked. Mr. Cheney replied: "Well, first of all, Brit, the New York Times, to my knowledge, is the only paper that played the story that way. And I thought they overwrote it. That is to say, I don't think what George said was fairly and accurately portrayed by the New York Times." Mr. Cheney said he and the president meet with the CIA director or his deputy about six times a week, and that new information would sometimes cause changes in judgments and conclusions, "and we adjust our statements accordingly." The vice president added: "That's the way the process works. I think that's the way George testified to the process. I thought the New York Times did not — didn't get it right."