Tuesday, August 17, 2004
calling out the cowardly, or at least hypocritical, expletive-deleted, flip-flopping neoconservadroid veep
Says CNN:
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's questioning of John Kerry's war record and his ability to protect America is "cowardly," Sen. Tom Harkin said Monday.Juan Cole calls Cheney's attacks hypocritical if not cowardly, accuses him of "arrogant, unilateral war-mongering," and gives him a history lesson on how "sensitivity" has in fact helped the US win wars in the past, while The Daily Howler catches Cheney in an embarrassing "sensitivity" flip-flop.
"It just outrages me that someone who got five deferments during Vietnam and said he had 'other priorities' at that time would say that," said the Iowa Democrat, a former Navy fighter pilot.He accused President Bush and his vice president of "resorting to dirty attacks on John Kerry's war record."
"They're running scared because John Kerry has a war record and they don't," said Harkin. "What he (Cheney) is doing and what he is saying is cowardly. The actions are cowardly.
...Harkin said that it angered him to hear tough talk from Cheney.
"When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney, who was a coward, who would not serve during the Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil," said Harkin.
"He'll be tough, but he'll be tough with someone else's kid's blood," said Harkin....
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