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Edwards on Kerry: "Let me get this straight. He met with terrorists?"

JustOneMinute: Newsweek On The Campaign (via Lorie at PoliPundit). He links to this quote from John Edwards that PoliPundit and Charles have linked to as well:

[Edwards' aides] warned the veep candidate that the [Swift Boat Vets'] story was already out of control and about to get worse. Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of a wartime biography of Kerry, cautioned that Kerry's diary included mention of a meeting with some North Vietnamese terrorists in Paris. Edwards was flabbergasted. "Let me get this straight," the senator said. "He met with terrorists? Oh, that's good."

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Nick wrote:

You should look up all the pictures of the bushies shaking hands with the Bin Laden family.

∴ Nick | 7-Nov-2004 11:37pm est | #6294

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Yeah, that's the same.

Keith | 7-Nov-2004 11:40pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #6295

Martijn wrote:

What did those North Vietnamese terrorists do then, what made them terrorists?

∴ Martijn | 8-Nov-2004 12:47pm est | #6315

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

I'm not sure even which meeting they're talking about. It's possible he's even referring to a meeting the public doesn't know about. But in any case, they were the enemy, and it appears that John Kerry himself, in his diary, called them terrorists.

Keith | 8-Nov-2004 2:40pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #6316

Martijn wrote:

Hmm, well the problem is that everybody is very quickly talking about terrorists now, but I don't think that is always correct.
Clearly, Al Qaeda is a terroristic movement, but when two countries are at war with each other, is there still a situation where you can speak of terrorism?

∴ Martijn | 8-Nov-2004 6:54pm est | #6318

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Like I said, it appears from the passage that Kerry's own diary called them 'terrorists'.

(Even, for the sake of argument, if the word 'terrorists' had not been used, Kerry still met with our enemies. It'd be just as bad if Edwards had exclaimed instead, "So let me get this straight. Kerry secretly met with our enemies? Oh, that's good.")

Keith | 8-Nov-2004 10:34pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #6319

Martijn wrote:

Hmm, indeed, doesn't sound much better.
I guess there is not really a clear boundary between a terrorist and a guerilla warrior.

∴ Martijn | 9-Nov-2004 9:58am est | #6323

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