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Cheney: Attacks Almost a "Certainty"

BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
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Cheney: Attacks Almost a 'Certainty'
Sun May 19, 3:41 PM ET
By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said Sunday he is almost certain that terrorists will attack the United States again. "It's not a matter of if, but when," he said.

Cheney also acknowledged past failures in responding to signs of terrorism, but said he does not know if the Sept. 11 attacks could have been prevented "even if we had all those pieces together."

The vice president, in two talk show appearances, confirmed that U.S. intelligence is picking up hints that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terrorist network may be planning an attack. The information is vague, but should be taken seriously, he said.

"I think that the prospects of a future attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty," Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." "It could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, it could happen next year, but they will keep trying. And we have to be prepared."

Cheney said he believes the United States has had success in disrupting the al-Qaida network, but it is impossible to prepare a perfect defense.

"You try to read the tea leaves. We look for pieces of information and evidence, but you never get the complete picture," Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

President Bush (news - web sites), returning Sunday to the White House from Camp David, did not respond to a question about whether Americans should be on a higher state of alert.

Dont know if this means anything specific. We've heard this song and dance before. But just in case, keep your powder dry and your bug-out bags ready, peeps.
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    The government should have been on alert far before 9-11, we have always been threatened.
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey daddo--have you heard from Dano lately? How's he doing?

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    its all clintons fault,was listening to sean hannity's radio show the other day and their was a guy that said that clinton had the opputunity to get osama after we knew that he was the one responsible for the first attack on the world trade center.guy said he was the one that brokered the deal with sudan and he had the memos and notes from meetings to back him up.said he would take on all comers

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cheney's comments should come as no surprise to anyone with an IQ this side of absolute zero. We know there were what, 30,000 (?), trained in those camps. How many did we kill/capture in Afghanistan, maybe 2-3K (not Taliban, the other nationalities)? I don't know the exact figures, doubt anyone does, but bottom line is that there were & are far more of these vermin in circulation than we've accounted for to date. Doesn't take much technology to whip up some HE & dentonate it - hard to prevent, also, or there wouldn't be so many dead kids in Israel. And these bastids have shown they can be inventive. They spend a lot of time looking for cracks they can exploit, then act without mercy. How many contemplated, before Munich, the Olympics to be the target of political terrorists? And how many on 9-10 could predict the use of commercial airliners as kamikaze bombers? We need to think outside the box, also. And we need to take a page from the Mossad when we locate them.
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have some serious doubts about our government's ability,maybe
    even their desire,to truly fight this "war on terrorism".
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Every new attack will renew this government's resolve to fight the war on terrorism. Apparently, a number of plots have already been foiled, but with MSNBC now reporting that Al-Qaida is not the only group of nuts that wants to attack us (here or abroad), the likelihood of at least some low-level attacks, sooner or later, is very high. All it will take to keep the government, and the people, interested is (unfortunately) another hit. The silver lining is that such a hit will also continue to justify anything more we do to run these groups to ground.

    It's all well and good to sit around chattering nervously and debating this and that, but I think we're all really waiting for another shoe to drop. I just hope it's not a very big shoe. Gentlemen, keep your powder dry...

    - Life NRA Member
    If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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