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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (602920)	8/12/2004 1:15:32 PM
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (602920)	8/12/2004 1:50:49 PM
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Cheney attacks Kerry's call for 'more sensitive' war LAURA MECKLER, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, August 11, 2004 (08-11) 23:23 PDT DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney is opening a new attack on John Kerry, saying America will not defeat its enemies by fighting a "more sensitive" war on terror, as Kerry called for last week. "America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive," Cheney said in remarks prepared for delivery Thursday. "A sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans. ... The men who beheaded Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson will not be impressed by our sensitivity." He was referring to a statement Kerry made a week ago to a minority journalists' convention. Perhaps coincidentally, a questioner at a town hall meeting asked about the same statement a day earlier. A week ago, Kerry said: "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history." Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said the Massachusetts senator was alluding to the need to work with allies rather than pursue "an arrogant foreign policy," as Democrats contend Bush has done. In his prepared remarks for supporters in this swing state, Cheney said that none of the heroes of American history would follow Kerry's advice. "President Lincoln and General Grant didn't wage sensitive wars. Nor did President Roosevelt or Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur," he said. Cheney's remarks were the latest in a string of attacks by the vice president on the Democratic nominee for president. On Wednesday, Cheney delivered a particularly harsh criticism of Kerry, saying he lacks "deeply held convictions about right and wrong." A Bush-Cheney campaign official said it was a coincidence that the issue of a "more sensitive" war came up a day before Cheney made it a centerpiece of a speech. During a "town hall" meeting in Joplin, Mo., with Cheney and his wife, Lynne, a questioner asked Mrs. Cheney "what in the world" Kerry was thinking about when he called for a more sensitive war. "I just kind of shook my head when I heard that," Mrs. Cheney said. "With all due respect to the senator, it just sounded so foolish. I can't imagine that al-Qaida is going to be impressed by sensitivity." The vice president did not respond to this question. On Wednesday, Cheney went after Kerry's comments on the war in Iraq, saying he wouldn't trust the four-term Massachusetts lawmaker to make decisions about going to war. "We don't want to turn that responsibility over to somebody who doesn't have deeply held convictions about right and wrong," Cheney said. "And I must say, I look at the record of our opponents. There is a lot of hesitation and uncertainty."