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VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, responding to Kerry's comments, at a campaign stop in Reno...
...great Sphinx ... The late William Allen White once described Coke as the "sublimated essence of all America stands for." To find something as thoroughly native American hawked in half a hundred languages on all the world's crossroads from Arequipa to Zwolle is still strangely anomalous, somewhat like reading Dick Tracy in French or seeing a Japanese actor made up to look like Abraham Lincoln. But it is reassuring. It is also simpler, sharper evidence than the Marshall Plan or a Voice of America broadcast that the U.S. has gone out into the world to stay...
...absolutely essential that ... we make the right choice because, if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, campaigning in Iowa, implying that a vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would make another terrorist strike more likely...
...theater - plays seeking to work as both entertainment and propaganda. But where Embedded is a sloppy, two-dimensional piece of agitprop, Hare's show is more diplomatic, and dramatizes the runup to war without turning the politicians into cartoons. Desmond Barrit gives an icy turn as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell...
...fame, the likelihood that the eventual Democratic presidential nominee would be a decorated soldier seemed remote. Indeed, the spectacle of tens of thousands of passionate leftist Democrats cheering someone’s Vietnam service as “noble” seemed a sight about as likely as Dick Cheney attending a MoveOn.org block party. One is tempted to ask people when the Vietnam War became something to brag about, but that is missing the point. When all is said and done John Kerry went to Vietnam, and his experience has provided enough biographical ammunition, if wielded capably, to deflect...