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<b>seretogis: Please substantiate your post. Here is an example of a rebuttal
to your post that provides validation for the quotes:<p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By Richard Kirkpatrick</font></a><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Texas City Sun</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Published August
17, 2004 </font></p>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Could Vice President Richard Cheney be bipolar or could have the Halliburton over-billing scandal adversely affected his memory? Or is he just dishonest? On Thursday last Dick Cheney lashed out at Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry for suggesting that America needs to fight “a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more <i>sensitive</i> war on terror.” <br><br> Cheney neglected to add that President Bush and other top administration officials, including Cheney himself, have publicly called for “<i>sensitive</i>” use of American military power. In March, 2001 at the christening of the USS Ronald Reagan, President Bush said “… because America is powerful, we must be <i>sensitive</i> about expressing our power and influence.” On January 7, 2003, Gen. Richard Meyers, chairman of the president’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the administration asks “our troops to go out there and be, on the one hand, very <i>sensitive</i> to cultural issues, on the other hand, be ready to respond in self-defense to a very ticklish situation. Again, in April, 2003, Cheney said, “We recognize that the presence of U.S. forces can in some cases present a burden on the local community. We’re not in<i>sensitive</i> to that. We work almost on a continual basis with the local officials to remove points of friction and reduce the extent to which problems arise in terms of those relationships.”.............................</font></p>
<a href="http://texascitysun.com/story.lasso?wcd=6381">http://texascitysun.com/story.lasso?wcd=6381</a>
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<b>Please consider that there is ample evidence in media reports that Cheney and Bush simply pick a point that may contain some validity, and bend it to
better fit their tactic of repeating it often enough that it gains validity simply
through hearing it often enough, even though it does not contrast Bush and
Cheney's own policies or behavior from that of Kerry's. It is just a tactic to shift the focus of
a negative......like....for instance changing a position on an issue or policy,
entirely over to Kerry, when what is closer to fact is that both Bush and Kerry
have a history of substantial changes in positions and policy stances. Karl
Rove even is able to manipulate you and other supporters to parrot these
"talking points" to distort the actual record even further than Bush and Cheney are capable of by themselves.
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