Exaggerations, distortions and good old-fashioned lies
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=574399
By Rupert Cornwell
21 October 2004
When the headline in the Boston Herald screams "Vote Kerry, Get Nuked,
Veep warns," you know one thing for sure, the US presidential campaign
has entered the final stretch, when any scare will do.
The Vice-President, ***** Cheney, didn't put it quite so starkly during
a speech in Charleston, West Virginia, on Tuesday. But he came close.
If a terrorist nuclear device exploded in a US city, hundreds of
thousands might die. Could a wimpish Democrat like John Kerry, he
implied, be capable of stopping that happening?
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