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Article: Cheney rebukes Kerry; Vice president says the Democrat does not have a grip on defense issues
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2004
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - Campaigning in a hotly contested state, Vice
President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that Americans should feel more
secure about a terrorist threat with George Bush in the White House
than with a Democrat.
During a speech and question-and-answer session at American
Memorial Serb Hall, Cheney focused heavily on terrorism and the war
in Iraq, saying Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and his
running mate don't take the threat seriously enough.
"Tough talk in a debate cannot obscure a 30-year record of being
on the wrong side of every defense issue," Cheney said of Kerry, a
Massachusetts senator.
He slammed his opponent for comments he made in an interview in
the New York ...