Word: weaponeering
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...more issues--the fiscal conservatives who prefer less extravagant government spending, the civil libertarians who would like a less intrusive Patriot Act--were still prepared to side with him. His 97% approval rate within his party surpassed even Ronald Reagan's. Bush plainly understood that his best weapon against Kerry was less what Bush did than who he was. You may disagree with me, he said at every stop, but you know where I stand...
...organize and monitor the balloting to ensure credibility, but it won't send more than a few trained experts as long as its staff may not be safe. Insurgents are sure to challenge the legitimacy of any government elected under questionable circumstances. "Iraqis have no experience with any political weapon other than violence," says Harold Walker, a former British ambassador in Baghdad. "Trying to get them to think in a democratic way in the space of a few months is a task beyond reasonable expectation...
Reality, Kerry decided, would be his final weapon. He would keep riding the headlines, right up until Election Day. And as it happened, the lead story of that day's New York Times offered a promising start: HUGE CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ. While the following days' headlines would offer a variety of theories and evidence about when and how the explosives were removed, the issue brought the spotlight back to the Bush Administration's competence in running...
...political ones. Would the tape help Bush by reminding voters of 9/11? Or would it help Kerry by reminding voters that bin Laden remained at large? Both candidates immediately delivered statements saying that Americans were in agreement in their opposition to the terrorists. But the tape quickly became a weapon in their battle. On a Wisconsin radio station Kerry, repeating a longtime criticism, said that Bush "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden" at Tora Bora in 2001. Bush shot back at a rally in Ohio that Kerry's criticisms were "especially shameful...
...last year, he carried a certain edge over his opponents. It’s undetectable by tests, but you wouldn’t find it on the list of banned substances anyway. Still, you’d be hard pressed to find another college hockey player with this secret weapon. It’s almost intangible, practically indescribable—and located in the condiment aisle of your local supermarket...