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To: steve harris who wrote (193997)	7/10/2004 8:26:03 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576250

re: Clinton signed the regime change policy. Of course he did. What would you say about him if he had support SH regime permanence? John

To: steve harris who wrote (193997)	7/10/2004 8:30:32 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576250

Bad news for fringe neo-idiots: In one of the first polls published since Kerry named Edwards as his running mate, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday the Democratic ticket was leading Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney by a margin of six percentage points. Kerry: U.S. Needs to 'Wipe Slate Clean' on Iraq By Patricia Wilson RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) said on Saturday the United States needed to start with a clean slate on Iraq (news - web sites) and his new running mate John Edwards (news - web sites) portrayed America's allies as "hungry" for better ties with Washington. Reuters Photo Reuters Slideshow: John Kerry Latest headlines: · After Senate report on Iraq, Kerry says Bush misled America, abused power AFP - 5 minutes ago · Kerry Says Edwards Injecting 'Enthusiasm' AP - 28 minutes ago · Kerry Promises Hispanics Immigration Plan AP - 39 minutes ago In a joint interview aboard their campaign plane, Kerry acknowledged that he and his vice-presidential pick -- a former rival for the Democratic nomination -- had had one "legitimate difference" over trade, but that "we're very much in the same place now." And, although he said he would not "talk down" the U.S. economy, Kerry declined to characterize the current uptick in employment numbers and other indicators as a genuine recovery. "For the average worker in America, there's not only not a recovery, there's a wage recession," he said as the duo flew to North Carolina to celebrate the new Democratic ticket at a rally in Edwards' hometown. "There are a lot of people in a lot of parts of our economy that have a long way to go before this is a recovery." On Iraq, Kerry and Edwards defended their votes for the congressional authorization allowing President Bush (news - web sites) to go to war and said only a change in the White House would persuade allies to take on more responsibility for security and reconstruction. Kerry said Bush had "pushed hard and distorted to create a framework for the intelligence they wanted and the outcome they wanted." He accused Bush of misleading America over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections, and said the president had broken his promises to build "a true international coalition," honor the U.N. weapons inspection process and go to war only as a last resort. "Based on the information we had the time that we had it, it was the right vote," Kerry said. "The problem is the president did not honor what he said he would do in the exercise of the authority that he was given." Edwards, eating a lunch of salad and pasta beside Kerry at a conference table in the Boeing 757's front cabin, added: "Not only that, he abused the authority." Kerry declined to criticize U.S. allies like France and Germany for their reluctance to help in Iraq. "I think that it probably will take a new president to wipe the slate clean and offer the kind of leadership that has the potential to change the dynamics of what's happening in Iraq," Kerry said. Edwards, who had never held elective office before he won a U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina in 1998 and has been criticized by Republicans for lacking experience on national security, said the NATO (news - web sites) allies were hesitant because of Bush. "I was in Brussels a few weeks ago, meeting with the new secretary general of NATO, I met with NATO ambassadors," he said. "They are hungry, hungry for a positive relationship ... but the problem is the history with Bush." Despite their former rivalry, Kerry was hard pressed to find a single area in which they now disagreed, although he allowed they had diverged on trade during the campaign's primary season earlier this year. Edwards opposed trade pacts with Chile, Singapore and other nations that the Massachusetts senator backed, and voiced opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Kerry supported. "Both of us have come to the same place," Kerry said. The freshly minted Democrat team that will face Bush and Vice president Dick Cheney (news - web sites) on Nov. 2 wrapped up their inaugural week on the campaign trail together with a rally at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where they celebrated their new found friendship in front of thousands of cheering supporters. Edwards, a boyish 51-year-old political natural who honed a dynamic speaking style before juries as a personal-injury lawyer, had brought "a lot of energy," Kerry, a sometimes leaden campaigner, said in the interview. "And I've got a partner to share the burden." The son of a textile millworker who was the first in his family to go to college, Edwards acknowledged that he and Kerry, a blueblood war hero and son of privilege from Massachusetts, "come from different places." "He has an accent and I don't," Edwards quipped in his thick Southern drawl. In one of the first polls published since Kerry named Edwards as his running mate, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday the Democratic ticket was leading Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney by a margin of six percentage points.