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October 19, 2004
Cheney: Vote for Bush or Your City May Be Nuked
The Democrats play on people's fears of lost Social Security, jobs, and health insurance. The Republicans play on people's fears of nukes in the hands of terrorists.
"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 President 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."
Of course, if the Bush policies are succeeding so wildly, as the administration would have us believe, why is there even a terrorist threat at all by now? Shouldn't it have been eradicated or at least greatly reduced?
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 19, 2004 03:42 PM