Cheney did such a great job last night. Edwards and Kerry keep saying the same old thing, that there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq. Somehow they think this will win them the election. They both supported the war in Iraq, so what's their point?
Edwards claims Bush didn’t give the United Nations enough time to do inspections. These inspections went on for 12 years, except from 1998 to 2002, when Husseein blocked U.N. inspections so he could operate in secrecy and run terrorist training camps. Just think, if they were in office during 9/11, the U.N. inspectors could still be doing their work. Yipee!
Their platform amounts to them saying they will do everything “better” and, “Trust me.” I almost felt bad for Edwards when he brought up the Halliburton thing, because he had nothing with which to defend his shameful Senate record.
My favorite Cheney quote:
“And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You've missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee, almost 70 percent of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
“You've missed a lot of key votes: on tax policy, on energy, on Medicare reform.
Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you ‘Senator Gone.’ You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate.”
Could you see the smoke coming from the stage? I wish they could have cut to Ashton Kutcher yelling, “BURN!”
My favorite Edwards quote:
“On the $87 billion, it was clear at the time of that vote that they had no plan to win the peace. We also thought it was wrong to have a $20 billion fund out of which $7.5 billion was going to go to a no-bid contract for Halliburton, the vice president's former company.”
In other words, they voted against funding body armor and other necessities for the troops for B.S. political reasons. Thanks for clearing that up, Senator.
P.S. I really liked this Sun-Times column.
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Maybe if your husband was in Iraq or one of those beautiful children of yours was serving, you wouldn't be so quick to support Bush. Then life wouldn't be so WONDER---ful, would it?
Who knows? Lot's of families support Bush AND have loved ones in Iraq.
And, I'm not "Wonder Mom" because I'm wonderful, it's because I possess super powers.
P.S. I have tremendous admiration for all of our soldiers and their families, and I believe that President Bush is by far the best-qualified candidate to be their commander in chief.
The consistent theme from the anti-war crowd is "you only support it since you have nothing to lose".
This gives you tremendous insight into their psyche -- where there is a chance of personal loss, they have no stomach for a fight.
This view they then project onto others.
It would never occur to them that those with the most to lose might also be the strongest supporters of the war itself...not of the soldiers -- that's a given -- but of the war itself.
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