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...VICE PRESIDENT: How Dick Cheney has become a liability...
Then there are the weapons of mass destruction. Of all the Bushies, Cheney was the most foreboding about the threat they posed. "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction [and that he will use them] against our friends, against our allies and against us," Cheney told an audience of veterans in August...
Once a complement to Bush, Cheney now seems to amplify the President's liabilities. Back in 2000, most people had never heard of Halliburton, the oil-and-gas-and-contracting behemoth that Cheney headed before being tapped by Bush. Cheney isn't helped by the fact that Halliburton has benefited from the Iraq war he championed or that investigations of the company seem to multiply. The Justice Department last week launched a review into alleged bribes the company had flung around the globe in order to obtain foreign contracts. Cheney ran the company during part of the time frame covered...
Senior White House aides say they are not worried that Cheney is weighing down the ticket. He's a great fund raiser and base motivator. "These are serious times, and he's a serious guy," says a presidential adviser. "People aren't going to care about Halliburton...They're going to care about who can protect them." For his part, Cheney is amused by the Democratic attacks. "That's politics," he says to friends, grinning his trademark half grin and shrugging his shoulders to signal there's nothing to worry about. --By Matthew Cooper/Washington
...Kerry has said he disagrees," says a senior Kerry adviser. Every time the Republicans bring up the issue, they give Kerry "the opportunity to highlight that his view isn't the traditional Massachusetts-liberal view." Kerry himself snapped last week, "I have the same position that Vice President Dick Cheney has. [The Republicans] ought to talk to Dick Cheney ... before they start playing games with this. And we'll find out just how political and how craven they are." Kerry was referring to Cheney's statement during the 2000 campaign that he believes the issue of rights for gay couples...