Senator Edwards speaks out!(presidential candidate John Edwards)(Humor)

NEW YORK, JULY 9

LADIES an gennelmen of the jury, the U.S. is a great country but its growth has been stultified, an I do mean stultified, by the policies of the gennelman who got into the White House on account of, well--how would we get along, in American justice, if seven of you voted not guilty, five voted guilty, the judge slams down his gavel an pronounces, the defendant is guilty. We don run things that way in American justice, an we shouldn't run things that way in Washington where we're speakin to the whole world, an what are we tellin that whole world?

We're tellin em that we can send 135,000 American boys an girls to a foreign country an tell them to kill or be killed. We've lost now near one thousand Americans doin that. The question is: Did they lose their lives an serve a great American purpose? They gave their lives without complainin, they fought with great honor. Last night on CBS they pictured one young man. His mama received a letter from him just the day before, sayin he loved her an sayin he was goin to marry his girl Ellen--no, Ruth was her name--when he got back.

Well, he'll never be back, cept in a wooden coffin, maybe a bugler will blow a song, maybe Ellen ... Ruth will be there with his mama. But what's he done for America? Is terrorism less threatenin? The very next day the homelan security people tell us al-Qaeda is plannin an attack right here in America. That's how much security we've accomplished, under the leadership of that man from Texas who began to confuse military work when he served, or so he says, in the National Guard. Ony thing he succeeded in, ladies an gennelmen of the jury, was in hidin out from his superior officers, same people who're now takin orders from him, life an death orders, to continue in far-out parts of the world tellin Muslim people what America is like an if they don like it they're daid, bang bang ...