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Kerry calls for extension of 9/11 commission

* Clinton tells Democrats that Kerry would `rally the world’

NORFOLK: Democrat John Kerry portrayed himself as a viable alternative to George W Bush as commander in chief on Tuesday and sought to erode the president’s advantage on homeland security by vowing to extend the Sept. 11 commission’s work for another 18 months.

On the eve of his arrival at the Democratic National Convention in Boston where he will formally accept his party’s nomination as Bush’s opponent in the Nov. 2 election, Kerry said the United States “simply must act, not as partisans, but as patriots.”

“We understand the threat,” the decorated Navy veteran said as he stood in front of the battleship Wisconsin moored on the Norfolk waterfront. “We have a blueprint for action. The only thing we don’t have is time.”

Clinton: Energized by Bill and Hillary Clinton, Democrats castigated George W. Bush as a president who mishandled the economy and bungled the war on terror. John Kerry will “rally the world to our side,” the former president said as the party turned to an aging liberal warrior and Kerry’s outspoken wife to define the Massachusetts senator.

Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of a Republican senator who inherited his family’s ketchup fortune, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will offer the nation a more personal and family view of the party’s candidate for president on the second night of the four-day Democratic National Convention. Introducing her husband Monday night as “the last great Democratic president,” New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton revved up the packed convention hall by saying Kerry “will lead the world, not alienate it.”

When the former president took the stage, delegates jumped up, screamed, applauded and waved placards. Even as he clearly enjoyed it, Clinton quickly turned the focus to insisting that Kerry would be a good commander in chief. “During the Vietnam War, many young men, including the current president, the vice president and me, could have gone to Vietnam and didn’t. John Kerry came from a privileged background. He could have avoided going too, but instead, he said: Send me,” Clinton said. agencies

Cheney uses Sept 11 report to rally votes for Bush

PORTLAND: Republicans on Monday dispatched Vice President Dick Cheney to keep the heat on Democrat John Kerry and seized on the Sept 11 commission’s findings about the threat posed by Al Qaeda to warn against replacing President George W Bush. Launching a counter-offensive at the start of the Democratic National Convention, Cheney used the commission’s critical final report to make the case “the danger has not passed,” and then said: “In the time ahead we need the same steadfast presidential leadership that we have had over the last 3-1/2 years.” Democrats accused the vice president of politicising the report. reuters

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