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Article: Democrats take aim at Cheney; vice president fires back.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 26, 2004
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Byline: Ron Hutcheson
WASHINGTON _ President Bush likes to tell audiences that Dick Cheney is "the greatest vice president the country has ever had," but Democrats think the taciturn Wyoming conservative could help drag Bush down to defeat this year.
In the first of a series of attacks planned for this week, Democrats on Monday questioned Cheney's Vietnam-era draft deferments and criticized his past votes in Congress against various defense programs. Cheney fired back with a blistering critique of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's fitness to serve as commander in chief.
Democrats' decision to turn their fire on Bush's running mate ...