The Dean Democrats have defeated Joe Lieberman. Their choice, instead, is a candidate whose explicit goal is to give up the fight against the terrorists in Iraq. For the sake of our security, this nation must reject any strategy of resignation and defeatism in the face of determined enemies.
Vice President Cheney criticizes the Democratic choice in Connecticut and warns against defeatism in the fight against terrorism.
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The intelligence officers who questioned the terrorists can be proud of their work, proud of the results, because they prevented the violent death of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people.
I think the bottom line is, was I up to the task of being vice president? And there is no question, I think, based upon the fact that I did it for eight years that they were right.
One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is, they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of -- of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the…
But the ultimate threat is the possibility of their succeeding and getting, say, a biological agent or a nuclear weapon, smuggling it into the United States, into one of our own cities, and raising the specter of -- of being able to kill…
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