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

To: Skywatcher who wrote (635069)	9/29/2004 6:27:28 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

LOL, mr shyster pulls a chrissykins and is left chewing on his foot...LOL... newsmax.com Edwards to Imus: Bush Left U.S. Open to Nuke Attack In his harshest attack yet during the presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Wednesday that the Bush administration had left the U.S. more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists - then began to backpedal on the charge moments later. Asked if he agreed with Sen. Ted Kennedy, who accused the White House on Monday of leaving America vulnerable to a terrorist nuclear strike, Edwards told radio host Don Imus: "I do. ... It certainly has made us more vulnerable to the possibility of a nuclear attack." The exchange went like this: MUS: Senator Kennedy said the other day that the Bush administration's obsession with Iraq has made this country more vulnerable to a nuclear attack by terrorists, which is pretty strong. Do you agree with that? EDWARDS: I do. IMUS: Oh, you do? EDWARDS: I do. IMUS: How so? EDWARDS: Well, because if you look - did you say by terrorists? Was that at the end of that sentence? IMUS: Yes, sir. EDWARDS: Umm - it certainly made us more vulnerable to the possibility of a nuclear attack. [END OF EXCERPT] Moments later, however, Edwards began backpedaling on his agreement with Sen. Kennedy, making the astonishing admission that he had no idea what Kennedy had said. IMUS: The vice president implied ... that if you're elected, it would make a terrorist attack more likely. Is that what you're saying now? EDWARDS: About who? IMUS: President Bush and Vice President Cheney – that electing them would invite a terrorist nuclear attack? EDWARDS: That's not what I ... IMUS: Well, Senator Kennedy seemed to be saying ... EDWARDS: That's not what I – that's certainly not what I was saying. That's why I asked you a minute ago, because I had not heard what Senator Kennedy said – the business about the terrorists being at the end. What I know is true is that Iran and North Korea have moved forward with their nuclear weapons program[s]. This president has basically ceded the responsibility for dealing with Iran to the Europeans and with the North Koreans to the Chinese – which is a huge mistake because they create such a threat to America that it creates a much more serious nuclear threat to America. [END OF EXCERPT] On Monday Sen. Kennedy claimed that President Bush had left the U.S. vulnerable to a "nuclear 9/11," arguing, "The war in Iraq has made the mushroom cloud more likely, not less likely."