Posted on 09/10/2004 6:11:41 AM PDT by News Junkie
That is really hard to believe. The MSM misquote someone, no way! (sarcasm)
can someone find the full quote?
They scam stream media got 47th again?
Brit Hume's All Stars covered this and defended the VP.
We made decisions at the end of World War II, at the beginning of the Cold War, when we set up the Department of Defense, and the CIA, and we created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and undertook a bunch of major policy steps that then were in place for the next 40 years, that were key to our ultimate success in the Cold War, that were supported by Democrat and Republican alike -- Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and Gerry Ford and a whole bunch of Presidents, from both parties, supported those policies over a long period of time. We're now at that point where we're making that kind of decision for the next 30 or 40 years, and it's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice. Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.
We have to understand it is a war. It's different than anything we've ever fought before. But they mean to do everything they can to destroy our way of life. They don't agree with our view of the world. They've got an extremist view in terms of their religion. They have no concept or tolerance for religious freedom. They don't believe women ought to have any rights. They've got a fundamentally different view of the world, and they will slaughter -- as they demonstrated on 9/11 -- anybody who stands in their way. So we've got to get it right. We've got to succeed here. We've got to prevail. And that's what is at stake in this election.
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
I think you got the true meaning of Cheney's quote better than the MSM did. They're ostensibly the professionals, but they prove themselves to be so incompetent every day. Maybe Dan Rather should send you his paycheck.
This quote makes far more sense. The other quote was questionable, imo, not because it questioned Kerry's competence but that it left the opportunity for terrorists to strike before the election and Cheney to be hanged with his own words. Cheney is more intelligent than that. This expanded quote I fully agree with. That is the real fear, that kerry would lead a 9-10 force against terorrism.
You make an excellent point. Cheney was clearly saying that if we get hit hard again in the future a Kerry response would be more of a police action than a military one. But the media cut his complete thought off early to make him look bad.
I guess nobody can be so careful when they speak that the MSM won't eventually be able to misquote or misinterpret it to the masses. The media have become unbelievably hateful and divisive. It's more like spiritual warfare out there than a political event. It feels to me like the media are tying to sow the seeds of a civil war.
Thank you for this. I was dismayed when I first heard this. Cheney is waaaaaay too smart to have said this in the way it was reported. I kept thinking something is not right here.
Wonder what the media will do with itself when we get "four more years".
It really does change the meaning completely.
And the liberals are all ready all over this hoping with all their hearts that there is an attack so it will "backfire" on Cheney and Bush.
Thanks for finding the full quote.
I did hear it right. And what Cheney said,in full, is entirely logical and defensible.
And the cows are coming home.
Not incompetent...just biased and partisan for the dims.
Great work of reasoned analysis. The reason the MSM does not do what you did is that, quite simply, most members of the MSM are stupid. Yes, stupid. I teach at the university level, and I can assure you that, from observing them, they can't think their way through anything more complicated than reading their own cheat sheets and reciting sports scores.
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