Cheney Warns of Terror Risk if Kerry Wins

[RoyGBiv]

Cheney Warns of Terror Risk if Kerry Wins
By DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID M. HALBFINGER

COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 7 - Stepping up the battle over national security, Vice President Dick Cheney warned on Tuesday that the country would be at risk of a terror attack if it made "the wrong choice" in November, and President Bush accused Senator John Kerry of adopting the antiwar language of his Democratic primary rival Howard Dean.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney delivered their accusations in separate appearances as Mr. Kerry, for the second day in a row, attacked Mr. Bush's "wrong choices." The Democratic contender said that of all of them "the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq."

The debate was underscored as the deaths of American military personnel and Defense Department civilians working in Iraq reached 1,000.

Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, called it a "tragic milestone" and a reminder that "we must meet our sacred obligation to all our troops to do all we can to make the right decisions in Iraq so that we can bring them home as soon as possible."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/08/politics/campaign/08bush.html?hp

This is disgusting...

[skooooo]

1. didn't he later recant..

..this statement? i believe i saw that posted earlier..

[RoyGBiv]

3. Dunno...

I haven't been able to read a full news story all day and was just browsing the NYT site and saw that as story to be published tomorrow.

Could be, but I'm not sure it matters. It's out there.

[Honor Where Are You]

13. Kind of like Strike that form the record....

jury has already heard it. That was there intent.

[liveoaktx]

25. *He* didn't recant but the WH recanted for him-vid link from Countdown

Cheney Flip Flop

[kestrel91316]

2. Hmmmmmmm............................

does Dracula know something we don't know?? I bet they will be mad enough to sic the "terra-ists" on us if they lose, that's for sure.

Oh by the way, does this constitute a TERRORIST THREAT against the American people? Has anybody done their civic duty and reported this threat to the FBI?

[moondust]

7. That's what it is.

Even their faithful stooges know 9/11 was a MIHOP and that they'll do it again if voters make the foolish mistake of sending them down the poop chute where they belong.

[Squeegee]

4. Disgusting?

Did you think they wouldn't sink this low? ;)

[SodoffBush]

27. From the man who took a pregnancy test during the Vietnam War

and passed.

Grain, meet salt.

[mitchtv]

5. CNN claims Edwards then called crashcart's remarks

Un American.on the crawler.

[saracat]

6. But Kerry isn't allowed to mention Dick's deferments!

What a crock. Win through fear!

[Career Prole]

8. He threatens "we'll get back to that pre-9/11 mindset"...

Hey Dick...weren't you and your dummy in charge pre-9/11?
I believe if you check back you'll see that you owned the "pre-9/11 mindset" yourselves...assuming you've a mind to set, of course.

[lovuian]

16. Ya Dick! Terrorists hit on YOUR Watch

Not Clintons

:argh:

[Career Prole]

17. Every time I hear Cheney say "pre-9/11 mindset"

I start hearing the "Vacation" theme song.

[htuttle]

9. "That's a mighty nice country you have there..."

"...It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it." says Cheney, Capo for the Bush Crime Family.

[shadu]

19. Cheney stashed away 911 #2 for just such an occasion

If Kerry wins, Cheney will export terra to the four corners
of the USA!

[PurityOfEssence]

21. So right. Think like you're a gangster or on a recess playground

and everything these guys do makes sense.

Truly, the "appeal" that Junior has is the same prurient appeal that characters have in gangster movies: deep down, many people would like to disobey the rules, smash things and do as they please.

This rebellion against civilization is the same joy selfish people get from deregulation and world conquest: to be loosed of the chains of constraint with which "little" people have bound them. Remember that economic policy pamphlet published by the administration when they first came in? There was a drawing of Gulliver on the beach, tied down to stakes by the Lilliputians of the U.N.

Remember all those stereotypic jokes about Texas blowhards? That's what we are to the rest of the world.

[IggleDoer]

10. What happed to this business of "Osama wants Kerry to win?"

I guess Osama flip-flopped and wants his good friends, the Repubicans, to keep him safe.

[Child_Of_Isis]

11. Cheney is taking a beating

on c-span about that remark. I have seen it on other programs as well. He's doomed.

[PATRICK]

15. They have had to go off their timing to expend ALL

their dirty strategies until the satan-ex-machina arrives. This is a classic, but meanly used in a small way.

The best example I saw of that was when the very night before election the supposedly neutral French President Pompidou(Gaullist) just had to make a nationwide TV warning that a vote for the Socialists threatened to deliver the nation to the Communists. Dieu sauve la France!

The Socialists howled and lost. But Cheney has spent too much capital too often. Now he sounds like a discredited crank and the spite lingers after him like a skunk trail.

[rman]

12. events in Spain have show the opposite is true

besides, i hear the Bush camp ranting all the time about how the US is at risk of terrorist attacks, in spite of their claims that the US is safer because of Bush's war on terrorism.
So why would they use that risk as an argument against Kerry? Just doesn't make sense.

[lovuian]

14. News Media Appalled at Cheney!!! AnyAmercian would do

Everything they could to Defend America. Its not a Republican can do better issue

Its an American Issue

Totally out of Place

:argh:
Instead of making comments like that Cheney should talk about Issues rather than threaten and terrorize US Citizens

[PurityOfEssence]

18. Vote for me or die, peon

Questioning a wartime President is treason, and this war will never end.

[BiggJawn]

20. "Simon Says...Vote BUSH!"

Is it just me, or does that creepy Mo-Fo remind anyone else of Simon Bar Sinister when he does one of these "homey" town meetings?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. Doth protest too much, Mr Pot/Kettle. eom

[llmart]

23. Well, I guess that when Senator Kerry is elected.....

ole' Dickhead Cheney better run for cover like he did the last time we had a terrorist attack. Maybe he can go back to his underground bunker so we don't have to look at his snarling, ugly mug any more. I, for one, can't wait.

[Demeter]

24. Let's Look At This Logically

1. Has Cheney just issued a bond-if the Scream Team holds on to power for 4 more years (breathe deeply) then we can killl them, ala Jozef Conrad (Lord Jim) for breaking the vow in the event any little terrorist thing comes down the pike?

2. Is this a confession that 9/11 was a GOP plan to win an election--Making it happen on purpose?

3. Is this a threat--elect us or else we blow up something?


People who live in glass houses really ought to not throw such stones. It's called arming the enemy.

[Kimber Scott]

26. How does he know? Is he going to orchestrate the attacks himself?

:think:

[IggleDoer]

28. Was this in the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB)? ...

... titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the United States .. if Kerry wins." ???