:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 10.20.2004 ::
:: Report from the trail ::
A Blistering Attack by Bush, a Long Indictment by Kerry
By JODI WILGOREN and ELISABETH BUMILLER
From The NY Times
WATERLOO, Iowa, Oct. 20 - Under blistering attack on national security, Senator John Kerry on Wednesday issued a lengthy indictment of President Bush's handling of terrorism, deriding his opponent as a stubborn and failed leader who has made the United States less safe.
In a point-by-point condemnation of Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq, terrorism, domestic security, intelligence and diplomacy, Mr. Kerry ticked off a litany of "terrible mistakes" by Mr. Bush. "What did the president learn?" he asked. "Apparently nothing. He is, I think, literally in denial."
Mr. Bush, campaigning just 85 miles away here in a state where the race appears as closely contested as it is nationally, responded with equally strong language, saying of Mr. Kerry, "You can't win a war when you don't believe you're fighting one."
He said Mr. Kerry's description of Iraq as a "profound diversion" from the larger struggle against terrorism- which Mr. Kerry repeated Wednesday - "misunderstands our battle against insurgents and terrorists in Iraq."
Read more here.
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