Mixing politics with terror and stirring up fear - Cheney's prefered recipe

In a conference call with reporters Wednesday night, Cheney implied that US Senator Joe Lieberman's (D-CT) loss to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont was a victory for "al Qaeda types."
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Fortunately, Democrats are speaking out: '"I don't take anything he says seriously anymore," Senator Clinton said when asked about Cheney at a later campaign stop'. What Hillary Clinton should say is that the VP is a complete looney!

How is it possible that in this country, the person who is in a position of becoming President if the actual one dies, can do such statements and walk away with them??

The GOP will use anything to stir up people's fears, mixing terror with Iraq, with partisan politics.

How the hell taking people accountable for approving the war in Iraq is related to fighting off terror atacks in the States? I'm hoping the American People is not mislead so easily, but since the 04 election i don't know what to think anymore.

The diversion of troops, along with the immense spending, and the instability in the Middle East generated by the war in Iraq, has made this country more vulnerable, not less to attacks of all sorts. If attacks like the one being planned in the UK were stopped that's due to inteligence in Pakistan and the UK that allowed for it to be discovered. That's the way to go. (That does not mean the President needs to have the power to listen to every conversation from and to the US, which is completely useless) Military action has no purpose as anti-terrorism strategy. To have Intelligence Agencies and the Pollice in control and stop a terrorist attack a few weeks before it happens, like 2 days ago in the UK, is a risk and generates panic for a while, but it's the only way to make sure we're going after those who really are planning something, and not someone at random.

The fact that we are now hearing more frequently the discovery of activities being planned to attack the USA or Canada or the UK shows that the situation in the Middle East, first in Iraq and now also in Lebanon, only motivates these desperate young men to attack those they see as responsible for all the chaos there - and unfortunately they are motivated for that by extremist religious leaders in the Islamic World.