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...more telling than Cheney?s remark however, was the reaction of the Democratic campaign. John Edwards indignantly accused Bush and Cheney of politicizing 9/11, but that was about it. While that may be true, it?s not going to convince one voter that Kerry and Edwards could keep America safer. Kerry has to have a stronger response. It?s not like this is the first time a campaign has accused its opponent of being unsound on national security. Lyndon Johnson?s campaign pulled its controversial ?Daisy? ad, which implied Barry Goldwater would lead the nation straight into nuclear...
...Drug Money Re Tim McGirk's article "Terrorism's Harvest" [Aug. 9]: President Bush says he has made America safer. But Afghanistan has been in chaos for years, and Iraq is a new breeding ground for terrorists. Now we learn that the Taliban is back and the opium trade is funding al-Qaeda. It is time that Americans look beyond tough talk. Matthew Ball Pittsburgh...
...this point. His hair is grayer, and his knees are shot from three-mile runs with little stretching, but overall he is remarkably unchanged by the events of his presidency. In talking to him, you get the sense he really cares about just one question: Who will keep you safer? Bush says "steady, strong leadership" is the card he puts on the table--he has stared down history. His rivals on the Democratic ticket, he suggests, are bound to blink. "If they're going to change one day, they may change again," he tells a Las Vegas crowd. "I think...
...most powerful nation in the world, we have managed to track down and kill a few members of al-Qaeda. No more airliners have been flown into skyscrapers in the three years since 9/11, but then that was true in the three years before 9/11 as well. Are we safer from terrorism than we were before? The only honest answer is, Who knows...
Speaking just miles from Ground Zero, Bush repeatedly invoked the attacks of Sept. 11 and said he had spent the past three years making the world safer by defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and toppling the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq...