MSNBC: "Could 2nd Bush term mean another war?"

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6047304/

WASHINGTON - Playing on the fear factor, Vice President Dick Cheney suggested in a campaign speech there might be another terrorist attack on the United States if John Kerry were in the White House.

President Bush opponents’ also are raising their own worst fears, including the potential for more wars during a second Bush term.

“That’s fear-mongering,” said Joseph Carafano, a 25-year Army veteran and former West Point professor who now is an analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation.

“The Bush administration is on a crusade to make the world safe for democracy and part of that ... is eliminating countries of anti-Western aggression,” said Loren Thompson, a military analyst at the Lexington Institute think tank in Washington. “They may not like me to say that on the eve of the election, but that’s a fact,” Thompson said. “It’s less likely to happen with a Kerry administration.”