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"If they couldn't stand up to the pressures of Howard Dean, how can we expect them to stand up to al-Qaeda?"
DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, accusing Democratic candidates John Kerry and John Edwards of changing their position on Iraq during the Democratic primaries, in last week's vice presidential debate

"I don't think the country can take four more years of this kind of experience."
JOHN EDWARDS, claiming the Administration of President George W. Bush has ignored the plight of poor Americans and mismanaged Iraq, during the same debate

"I am truly...

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