From: "Robert Comer" 

But they did it too just doesn't cut it.

Anyway, it would be far more effective to answer why the charges are false
if he could, rather than attacking the opposition.

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> CHENEY FIGHTS BACK
> Wed Nov 16 2005 18:56:46 ET
>
> Excerpts As Prepared For Delivery Tonight by Vice President Cheney
>
> THE VICE PRESIDENT: "As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in
> public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the
> late
> 1960s. I know what it's like to operate in a highly charged political
> environment, in which the players on all sides of an issue feel
> passionately
> and speak forcefully.
>
> In such an environment people sometimes lose their cool, and yet in
> Washington you can ordinarily rely on some basic measure of truthfulness
> and
> good faith in the conduct of political debate. But in the last several
> weeks
> we have seen a wild departure from that tradition.
>
> And the suggestion that's been made by some U. S. senators that the
> President of the United States or any member of this Administration
> purposely misled the American people on pre-war intelligence is one of the
> most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city...
>
> Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from
> politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against
> Saddam
> Hussein. These are elected officials who had access to the intelligence,
> and
> were free to draw their own conclusions.
>
> They arrived at the same judgment about Iraq's capabilities and intentions
> that was made by this Administration and by the previous Administration.
> There was broad-based, bipartisan agreement that Saddam Hussein was a
> threat . that he had violated U.N. Security Council Resolutions . and
> that,
> in a post-9/11 world, we couldn't afford to take the word of a dictator
> who
> had a history of WMD programs, who had excluded weapons inspectors, who
> had
> defied the demands of the international community, who had been designated
> an official state sponsor of terror, and who had committed mass murder.
>
> Those are facts.
>
> What we're hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own
> statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a
> war.
> The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to
> these
> cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. American soldiers
> and
> Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert
> temperatures - conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering
> attacks,
> seizing weapons, and capturing killers - and back home a few opportunists
> are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.
>
> The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their
> memory, or their backbone - but we're not going to sit by and let them
> rewrite history.
>
> We're going to continue throwing their own words back at them. And far
> more
> important, we're going to continue sending a consistent message to the men
> and women who are fighting the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
> many
> other fronts.
>
> We can never say enough how much we appreciate them, and how proud they
> make
> us. They and their families can be certain: That this cause is right . and
> the performance of our military has been brave and honorable . and this
> nation will stand behind our fighting forces with pride and without
> wavering
> until the day of victory.
>
> Developing...
>
>
>

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