Reply #44: Oh, your link tells a more balanced story. Not quite the case you would like to make.

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d to fight back the day it started," Edwards said. "The decision was made not to do it, and I did not agree with that decision."
In a new book, "What a Party!", Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman, said Edwards made a similar statement to him.
"Terry, they wouldn't let me" attack Bush, McAuliffe quotes Edwards as saying in December 2004. "I wanted to go after the Swift Boat guys. I wanted to go after Bush. They wouldn't let me."
One Democratic donor said he's twice heard Edwards tell private audiences, including this year, that he wanted to be more aggressive but the Kerry camp "would not let him."
Kerry disputed the account by Edwards in McAuliffe's book, saying he was frustrated that Edwards was not tougher. He told McAuliffe that Edwards told him several times, "Watch the news tomorrow. I'm really going to go after Bush," but that Edwards did not deliver.
Kerry declined to comment for this report, though aides said he stands by his account to McAuliffe.
A spokeswoman for the Edwards presidential campaign, Kate Bedingfield, declined to comment on the 2004 campaign.
But Peter Scher, campaign manager for Edwards during his vice presidential run, insisted that the former North Carolina senator never shied away from attacking Bush or the Swift Boat veterans. Though the Edwards and Kerry camps sometimes disagreed over how to launch particular attacks, Edwards was consistently aggressive, he said.
"There was never a hesitation to go after Bush and Cheney," Scher said. "To the extent there were differences, there were differences about how best to do it and what made sense, but it was never a question of trying to go soft."