"A Vote For Kerry is a Vote For Death!"

"[I]t's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice. Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war." - Cheney, Sep 2004

Well, the fear mongering about Kerry can be set aside, since it's not really different than democrats saying we are less safe now. It's a really impolitic way of putting the same old same old, "vote for me I'll protect you".

The part that bugs me: I find it mildly offensive that Cheney would say "just a crime", as if waging "war" is more important than preventing crime... if taken literally what does that tell you?

Fact is... a criminal that kills 3000 people at a time is a pretty serious threat. More serious than Iraq even. Saying we need to fight the war, that that is more important, is a way of saying "so it's ok to let Bin Laden (the criminal) go" which is exactly what we did.

If it's a crime, we hunt down the criminals, wherever they go, if it's just a war... we fight whomever we want and build bases in Iraq ---- while the crime continues.