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Cheney: Terrorists May Bomb U.S. Cities
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By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer
CARROLL, Ohio - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept "you've got to get your mind around."
"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.
(snip... Regarding whether Kerry would be "tough and aggressive...) "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." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=1&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/cheneyHey DICK!! You're the incumbents -- what are YOU doing? Where is YOUR plan?!? Here's a report from a few days ago on how YOU are doing, Dick: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-13-us-port-security_x.htmPosted 10/13/2004 6:48 PM Today's Top News Stories
Internal report takes aim at port security efforts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department's independent investigator has concluded that federal inspectors of oceangoing shipping containers still need to improve their detection equipment and search procedures to prevent terrorists from sneaking weapons of mass destruction into U.S. ports.
(snip) "Improvements are needed in the inspection process to ensure that weapons of mass destruction or other implements of terror do not gain access to the U.S through oceangoing cargo containers," Ervin wrote. Democrats have been urging action on this since BEFORE 9/11, Dick, and even after those attacks and four years of "alerts," you haven't done the job. Read Kerry's plan on port security, airline security, chem/nuke facilities, bioterrorism, etc., and get back to us, DICK.http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/homeland_security/homeland_plan.htmlhttp://www.johnkerry.com/issues/homeland_security/
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