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[WA] Campaign 2004: Haunting words on terrorism and Iraq
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Sep 30, 2004 08:02am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Thursday, September 30, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican challenger George Nethercutt have each made past remarks about terrorism or Iraq that they wished they had said differently, and yesterday each campaign pummeled the other for it.
In a campaign growing steadily nastier, the Democratic senator and a spokesman for the Spokane congressman each accused the other side of taking their controversial utterances out of context. Each denied having done so. But each obliquely conceded they wouldn't have used quite the same words if they had it to do over.
Nethercutt, trailing in the polls, struck first and more harshly, airing a new television attack ad that accuses Murray of having "a different view of Osama bin Laden" and "excusing" terrorists. It shows a picture of the al-Qaida leader while playing comments the senator made to a Vancouver high school audience in December 2002.
"George Nethercutt's ad is a lie, and he knows it," Murray said during a conference call reporters had with her and former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, a triple amputee as a result of Vietnam War wounds.
Nethercutt's ad shows Murray telling the students that bin Laden had been working in unidentified countries "for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities. And the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better. We have not done that."
The Murray campaign hasn't aired Nethercutt's own much-criticized, off-the-cuff remarks to a student audience at the University of Washington a year ago. But her campaign ally and former Senate colleague brought them up yesterday. |
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