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Soviets Might Be Around if Kerry Had Led - Cheney
Sat Oct 23, 6:48 PM ET FARMINGTON, N.M. (Reuters) - The Soviet Union might still exist and Saddam Hussein might dominate the Gulf if Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry had been president in recent years, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Saturday.
Cheney told supporters that Kerry had run for the U.S. Senate in the 1980s on a promise to do away with many of the weapons that U.S. President Ronald Reagan used to end the Cold War.
"So if John Kerry had been in charge, maybe the Soviet Union would still be in business," President Bush s running mate said on a campaign trip to the swing state of New Mexico.
He also suggested that a Kerry presidency in the 1990s might have allowed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to remain a global threat. "In 1991, John Kerry voted against sending troops to expel Saddam Hussein after he invaded Kuwait. So if John Kerry had been in charge, Saddam Hussein might well control the Persian Gulf today," Cheney said. "The desert heat is making Dick Cheney come unglued," said Kerry spokesman David Wade. |
"Soon he'll be arguing that John Kerry lost the Battle of Gettysburg and sank the Lusitania," Wade said.
The vice president scoffed at comments made by the Massachusetts senator in his first presidential debate that pre-emptive military action be subject to a global test.
"The president and I know better than that," Cheney said. "We know it is not our job to conduct some kind of international opinion polls."
Kerry said in the debate the United States had the right to take pre-emptive action abroad if it "passes the global test, where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."
But he also said he would not cede to others the right to take pre-emptive action "in any way necessary to protect the United States of America."
(Additional reporting by Patricia Wilson)
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