NATIONAL SECURITY -- POWELL DISSES CHENEY: Just days after Vice
President Dick Cheney embarrassed himself
(http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/09/13/powell_targets_terror_comment_kerrys_response_would_be_robust/)
by claiming terrorists would attack America if people voted for John
Kerry, he and the Bush campaign sought to " clarify his remarks
(http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/10/cheney.kerry.ap/) ." They
said Cheney actually meant that Kerry would not respond as forcefully
as Bush when an attack occurs. But Secretary of State Colin Powell
disagreed. Asked how he believes Sen. John F. Kerry would respond to a
terrorist attack, Powell said, "As commander in chief, I think he'd respond
to it in a robust way
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16707-2004Sep12.html) ."
Powell had already made news earlier in the week, as British journalist
James Naughtie reported the Secretary of State called neo-cons Cheney,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz " f---ing crazies
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/people/190325_people13.html) ."