Posted on 10/19/2004 10:10:04 AM PDT by No Surrender Monkey
CARROLL, Ohio - Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept "you've got to get your mind around."
"The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us — biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans," Cheney said.
"That's the ultimate threat. For us to have a strategy that's capable of defeating that threat, you've got to get your mind around that concept," Cheney said.
Cheney, speaking to an invitation-only crowd as he began a bus tour through Republican strongholds in Ohio, said Kerry is trying to convince voters he would be the same type of "tough, aggressive" leader as Bush in the fight against terrorism.
"I don't believe it," the vice president said. "I don't think there's any evidence to support the proposition that he would, in fact, do it."
Cheney praised the recent elections in Afghanistan but said they don't mean the U.S. mission there is finished.
"Does that mean it's over now and we can walk away? No, it doesn't," he said. "This is three yards and a cloud of dust. There's no touchdown passes in this business. We'll stay as long as we need to help them train their own security forces, which we're doing actively so they can take over responsibility for their own security."
In a campaign appearance Monday in Johnstown, Pa., Cheney criticized rival vice presidential candidate John Edwards for going "overboard" in his comments about Kerry's support of unrestricted federal funding for stem cell research, which Bush and Cheney oppose. He also accused Edwards of giving people "false hope."
Edwards told supporters in Newton, Iowa, on Oct. 11, "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." The actor, a quadriplegic who became an advocate for stem cell research, had died a day earlier.
"I thought, frankly, the other day what John Edwards suggested when he made his comments about Christopher Reeve, that somehow if John Kerry were president, Christopher Reeve could get up out of his wheelchair and there all of his problems would be solved, I really thought was an inappropriate remark, especially given ... well, given the false hope it engendered," Cheney said.
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Two weeks to the election. If Al Queda wants to "Aznar" Bush, they have to act quickly. If Al Queda doesn't strike in the USA in the next 2 weeks, it will be a great admission of their weakness and lack of operatives able to penetrate the USA.
Well, let's look on the bright side. If they bomb Seattle, Tacoma or Olympia, Washington State will start electing Republicans again -- and maybe even conservatives.
Evoked or Invoked
I think an attack now would actually cause voters to rally around the President.
lock 'n load, MF'ers!
Probably, but does AQ understand that?
Or would they just think it would be a replay of Madrid, Spain and Aznar?
I look for them to hit a school!
History shows that they want to attack us because they want to attack us. Any effect on elections would be secondary.
Lets hope that all of our security people prevent any replay of what happened in Spain and Russia here in America.
I think that's right. But it sure would highlight that our WOT has focused on the wrong targets.
Aside from killing or capturing 75% of Al Quaeda leadership you mean?
With all the money federally employing Homeland Security types, dims can hardly say such money "spent to protect us" has been wasted--or would they like to try ;-) !
With all the Sharpton-claimed minority military types purportedly bearing the burden for President Bush's policies poised to vote 80% for Bush, they are hardly rallied by Sharpton or flocking to the Dim positions.
With their predilection for fanciful positions, perhaps one of their favorites, the Kama Sutra, will help them dream up yet another potential before the election.
HF
Good start. But that was not enough or they have replenished, immigrated and spread while we focused on Iraq as the immediate threat.
I guess your right, based on all of the terrorist attacks this country has experienced since 911.
Oh, wait a minute...
Well I think you're safe. Outside the US people know Washington, NYC and LA. If there is a target it is very likely one of these. They do however fit your message in that they all vote for dims.
Hope and pray nothing happens .... well except the big Bush victory!
OK but you are more confident than Cheney. I hope you are right.
Prayers offered up for America's safety.
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