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Kerry, Edwards defend their agenda
EFL: After having the luxury of talking virtually unchallenged about their politics at the Democratic National Convention, John F. Kerry and John Edwards found themselves defending their records and their plans for the country yesterday, while their campaign planned what it deemed a ''truth" offensive.
"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"

The launching point was Kerry's admittedly vague references lately that ''I have a plan for Iraq," where about 140,000 US troops are stationed and Bush is facing questions about postwar violence and long-term stability.
Speaking on the ABC news program ''This Week," the Massachusetts senator declared:
''I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush. I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."

So he has a secret plan, we just have to trust him. Oh, and since when do Senator's negotiate treaties? They just vote on them, when they're in town.

Asked whether he would promise to have US troops home from Iraq by the end of his first term, Kerry replied:
''I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops. We will probably have a continued presence of some kind, and certainly in the region. If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world -- in the Korean Peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps."

Then what do you need that additional 40,000 troops for, Senator Kerry? You remember, the ones you promised to add during your speech last week?

Posted by: Steve 2004-08-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=39570