WP/AP: RNC Chief Faults Democratic Leaders on Terrorism

[DeepModem Mom]

RNC Chief Faults Democratic Leaders on Terrorism
By Martiga Lohn
Associated Press
Saturday, August 5, 2006; Page A04

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Aug. 4 -- Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, denounced Democratic Party leaders Friday, saying they would "surrender important tools" in the fight against terrorism.

Amid low approval ratings for President Bush and diminishing support for the Iraq war, Mehlman's speech at the RNC's summer meeting echoed a theme voiced by White House adviser Karl Rove in January: that Republicans should make terrorism a central campaign issue in the fall campaigns and argue that Democrats hold a pre-Sept. 11 view of the world.

Mehlman said that if the Democrats win control of Congress in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, party leaders will stop the National Security Agency from eavesdropping on foreign terrorists and will pursue impeachment of the president.

"America faces a critical question," Mehlman said. "Will we elect leaders who recognize we're at war and want to use every tool to win it, or politicians who would surrender important tools we need to win?"....

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"As foreign jihadists call into the United States, do we use (NSA) technology to stop sleeper cells before they hit us? Or do we surrender use of this technology, as Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean would have us do?"...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401399.html

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Haha Important tools haha

Like sure fire super duper way to make more terrorist :rofl:

Hahahaha

Your Repuke wheee lots of looney

Me think they got rapture of brain long ago

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Great posts tonight, Oversea Visitor! nt

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Been lurking

But see me better start :rofl: ing
Think needed :rofl:

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. Oh Kenny boy, that was so last year says the uninvolved public!

I can't afford to do much of anything anymore with the price od gas, ya know?

I think people are more afraid of going bankrupt these days than terrorists, even if there was another attack. I think the DC elites have no clue how hard it is for us worker bees, that still get to vote, because they are so busy trying to get those lobbyist 1$'s!

[rooboy]

5. Nothing is more of a terrorism risk...

than the chairman of a political party being a closet homosexual terrified of being outed, and therefore open to blackmail.

[TankLV]

6. I hold a pre-911 view of the world, and I'm damn PROUD of it!

Fuck the lil' repuke and his dictators' wanna be's...

[Dover]

7. If Rove actually plans to make 'terrorism' a central campaign issue

this Fall,then you can bet they are planning to create the circumstances to advance that fear tactic. Get ready world. The GOP is desperate....again.

[truthisfreedom]

9. no kidding.i can feel the hair rising on the back of my neck in expectata-

tion of their next engineered evil plan... what US symbol of prosperity will they do a controlled-demo of next?

[quiet.american]

8. So citizens have been fooled once, twice -- will they get fooled again?n/t

[rodeodance]

10. oh crap! well, at least this headline is not on the frontpage!

By Martiga Lohn
Associated Press
Saturday, August 5, 2006; Page A04