Cheney Says Kerry Too Soft on Terror (washingtonpost.com)

The hourlong event was held at a country-themed restaurant on the edge of the Twin Cities. A dozen invited small business owners surrounded Cheney and his wife, Lynne.

Across the street, four relatives of a Minnesota Marine killed in Iraq, Lance Cpl. Levi Angell, 20, of Cloquet, protested.

Angell’s grandmother, Lila, called the war a “useless, needless fix we’re in.”