Cheney Warns, Edwards Whines

Wed, Sep 8, 2004 at 8:15:15 am PDT

Yesterday Dick Cheney criticized John Kerry’s “law enforcement” attitude toward the war on terror, warning that Kerry’s pre-9/11 mind-set would increase the risk of a terror attack in the US: Cheney Warns of Terror Risk if Kerry Wins.

“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice,” Mr. Cheney told a crowd of 350 people in Des Moines, “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.”

He also said if Mr. Kerry was elected the nation risked lapsing to a “pre-9/11 mind-set” where attacks are viewed as criminal acts, not part of a war against terrorism.

The Kerry campaign responded with their by-now depressingly familiar whining:

Senator John Edwards, promptly said Mr. Cheney had “crossed the line.”

“What he said to the American people,” Mr. Edwards said, “was that if you go to the polls in November and elect anyone other than us, then another terrorist attack occurs, it’s your fault. This is un-American.”