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[shoplifter]

Holy fucking shit. I should be shocked that he said this, but for some reason, I'm not. Emphasis mine.

Cheney Warns Against Vote for Kerry

AMY LORENTZEN

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa - Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday warned Americans about voting for Democratic Sen. John Kerry, saying that if the nation makes the wrong choice on Election Day it faces the threat of another terrorist attack.


The Kerry-Edwards campaign immediately rejected those comments as "scare tactics" that crossed the line.


"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States," Cheney told about 350 supporters at a town-hall meeting in this Iowa city.


If Kerry were elected, Cheney said the nation risks falling back into a "pre-9/11 mind-set" that terrorist attacks are criminal acts that require a reactive approach. Instead, he said Bush's offensive approach works to root out terrorists where they plan and train, and pressure countries that harbor terrorists.


Cheney pointed to Afghanistan as a success story in pursuing terrorists although the Sept. 11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, remains at large. In Iraq, the vice president said, the United States has taken out a leader who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people and harbored other terrorists.


"Saddam Hussein today is in jail, which is exactly where he belongs," Cheney said.


Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards issued a statement, saying, "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line today, showing once again that he and George Bush will do anything and say anything to save their jobs. Protecting America from vicious terrorists is not a Democratic or Republican issue and Dick Cheney and George Bush should know that."


Edwards added that he and Kerry "will keep American safe, and we will not divide the American people to do it."


The candidates are campaigning hard for Iowa's seven electoral votes. Democrat Al Gore narrowly won the state in 2000. Bush has campaigned in the state five times in the last month, and Cheney has made three stops.


Hours before Cheney spoke, the Congressional Budget Office said this year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion. Cheney, in praising Bush's tax cuts, noted that the CBO said this year's projected deficit will be smaller than analysts had expected.

 

[Incognito]

Hours before Cheney spoke, the Congressional Budget Office said this year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion. Cheney, in praising Bush's tax cuts, noted that the CBO said this year's projected deficit will be smaller than analysts had expected.

well isn't that nice. smaller than expected, yet 422billion in the whole.

 

[ManDudeChild]

Since when can Afghanistan be classified as a success story?

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Hasn't it also been shown that many of these "rooting out" plans are just not being implemented properly? Last I heard, Kerry wanted to adjust those plans so they'd actually work. An example I had read was that only 5% of incoming cargo to this country is even properly screened.

 

[xsarien]

"America is safer."
"We'll be attacked."
"America is more secure."
"...if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again."


You know, at least when Kerry (allegedly) flip-flops, he's not playing the American public's fears like a cheap harp.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

i think aliens are gonna attack us and bush, having spent his time laying arcade games, knows how to defeat the evil aliens. kerry was too busy going to war and protesting.

 

[chimpychi]

I'm tired of hearing this kind of stuff...scaring people for votes by making seems as if Kerry were President he'd hide under his desk and suck his thumb at the mention of "terror"...

 

[MIMIC]

This fucking bullshit pisses me off.

 

[sprsk]

America is safer. unless you live in florida.

 

[MetatronM]

How did this guy even become our Vice President anyway? He's not even a politician. He's just an asshole.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

How did this guy even become our Vice President anyway? He's not even a politician. He's just an asshole.

he corresponded at the finishing school for evil despots. i roomed with him for two years.
cool guy, but he always left his toenail clippings in the sink......ewwww......

 

[MetatronM]

America is safer. unless you live in florida.

Little does the Bush administration know that Osama bin Laden is using his Evil Weather Machine 4000 (tm) to make continuous coordinated environmental attacks against the US.

This is why we must destroy the environment before it destroys us!

4 MORE YEARS!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Somebody remind these assholes that 9/11 happened on their watch.

 

[Diablos]

He had a lot of nerve to say that. Corporate whore.

 

[Socreges]

Cheney is evil. Completely evil.

 

[akascream]

Both sides are pulling this crap though. Remember the "you'll be drafted if you vote Bush" scare?

 

[Diablos]

Shit, YOU JUST MIGHT.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Its not a scare, where do you think we're going to get soldiers if this war continues?

 

[Diablos]

Oh please. It is indeed a scare.

That's a problem. He waged a fucking war he didn't have to, and I fear that people that didn't even want to be soldiers will end up being casualties too. But no one gives a shit.

 

[Doc Holliday]

diablos i think we are in agreement

 

[akascream]

Shit, YOU JUST MIGHT.

That works both ways.

 

[Ghost]

Are there any bookies taking money on what the "threat level" will be on election day?

 

[Diablos]

Wha?

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Are there any bookies taking money on what the "threat level" will be on election day?

ORANGE +2000. c'mon orange, baby needs a new computer.
there was already one report floated this weekend. (no doubt at a time when people were not paying attention what with labor day and all) that osama was close to being captured. but thwen this little nugget came about...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040906/D84U6K500.html

 

[cvxfreak]

Cheney says the darndest things.

 

[SteveMeister]

Are there any bookies taking money on what the "threat level" will be on election day?

Only if Bush's down in the polls. If he's still ahead, we'll be completely safe

 

[Mustang]

He's not even a politician.

Thats a good thing.

 

[MIMIC]

Regarding the draft thing,

Snopes says: Probably not

What happened to their definitive "false" responses?

 

[doncale]

USA USA USA USA USA!

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

How did this guy even become our Vice President anyway? He's not even a politician. He's just an asshole.

What are you talking about? He is a career politician he just got a new job after being dumped out of the White House in 1992.





Cheney served in the Nixon White House

Served as chief of staff to President Ford.

A former six-term congressman from Wyoming

During his years in the House, Cheney amassed a solidly conservative voting record.

during the Persian Gulf War he served as defense secretary.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Great way to use fear and lies to take advantage of the American people.

 

[DCharlie]

oh fucking please.

Scare tactics at their most blatant. If the US public can't see straight through this, then they deserve another 4 years.

Also, if this is true (there would be an attack within days) then the US should DEFINITELY get rid of the current administration. How good can the countermeasures they have set up be if a change in the Whitehouse results in it not working!?!?!? As far as i'm aware, all the intellegence staff, infrastructure, anti terrorist messures etc etc don't suddenly stop working. If this defence only magically works when republicans are in power, then they DONT CARE about the american public or your safety.

 

[Blackace]

oh fucking please.

Scare tactics at their most blatant. If the US public can't see straight through this, then they deserve another 4 years.

Also, if this is true (there would be an attack within days) then the US should DEFINITELY get rid of the current administration. How good can the countermeasures they have set up be if a change in the Whitehouse results in it not working!?!?!? As far as i'm aware, all the intellegence staff, infrastructure, anti terrorist messures etc etc don't suddenly stop working. If this defence only magically works when republicans are in power, then they DONT CARE about the american public or your safety.

agreed!!! I say we burn him!!!!

 

[Hitokage]

Both sides are pulling this crap though. Remember the "you'll be drafted if you vote Bush" scare?

Please link me to where Kerry or Edwards made this claim.

 

[explodet]

So now Americans are being threatened by terrorists, on behalf of the American's own administration?

 

[FightyF]

So now Americans are being threatened by terrorists, on behalf of the American's own administration?

*LOL*

 

[seismologist]

This is gonna backfire on them. It's crap like this fear-mongering that turns me away from voting for republicans.

 

[sc0la]

This is why we must destroy the environment before it destroys us!

4 MORE YEARS!

lol. Quote of the day.

So now Americans are being threatened by terrorists, on behalf of the American's own administration?

I think you meant to reverse that but +1 lol for the effort. I knew what you meant

 

[Shogmaster]

I'll see your +1 lol and raise you an LOFL.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Not only will terrorists attack, but God will hate you. Vote Republican or suffer eternal damnation in Hell with the gays. Voting for Bush is voting for God.






*This ad has been funded by the Republican National Committee.

 

[norinrad21]

I'm kinda looking forward to hearing from fellow drafted GAers posting from Iran once Bush has been awarded 4 more years by the American people.

 

[Shinobi]

Always said I hated Cheney far more then Bush...fuck his corrupt ass to death.

 

[G4life98]

these fuckers are shameless...he should be with dubya and helping obgyn's spread thier love.

 

[DarienA]

Both sides are pulling this crap though. Remember the "you'll be drafted if you vote Bush" scare?

I'm myself am also still waiting for this link...

 

[Brannon]

....

What? I still have nothing to say that hasn't been said about this debacle this last four years, so I'm just saying that this Cheerios I'm eating, they're honey flavored.

 

[Cool]

Little does the Bush administration know that Osama bin Laden is using his Evil Weather Machine 4000 (tm) to make continuous coordinated environmental attacks against the US.

This is why we must destroy the environment before it destroys us!

4 MORE YEARS!

OMFG!!! ROFL!!

 

[teiresias]

Between Cheney and his daughter that betrays her own people to the political machine I don't think the family get much worse.

 

[Banjo Tango]

According to spokespeople, this is all out of context:

Anne Womack, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, said that the vice president's comment was taken out of context, and that he was addressing policy differences.

"Whoever is elected is going to face the prospect of another terrorist attack,'' Ms. Womack said. "The question is whether we will have the right policies in place to protect our country."

So is that supposed to be an explanation of what he really meant? Because I'm seeing zero difference between her statement and his.

Unless, of course, she's being quoted out of context. Damn you, liberal media.

 

[teiresias]

Anne Womack, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, said that the vice president's comment was taken out of context, and that he was addressing policy differences.

"Whoever is elected is going to face the prospect of another terrorist attack,'' Ms. Womack said. "The question is whether we will have the right policies in place to protect our country."

That spin is the equivalent of a curse-word laden, personal insult post being followed up by a smilie in an attempt to "make it alright I said it."

 

[NetMapel]