"Candidates Painting Some Scary Scenarios"

[GreenPartyVoter]

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Terrorists lying in wait to attack. Planes falling from the sky. Ships blowing up. The candidates in the race for president are painting some scary scenarios to motivate voters.

In the first presidential campaign in a new age of terrorist threats, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are speaking to the public's worst collective nightmares, making the case that the next occupant of the White House will make the difference in whether the country is safe or at greater risk.

Kerry's new vision of doomsday is based on reports that the Bush administration failed to secure nearly 400 tons of explosives missing from a military installation in Iraq. He accuses the Bush campaign of playing on people's fears while saying he speaks to their hopes, but in the same speech he'll raise the dangers of the missing explosives.

"Folks, these are the kind of explosives that took down Pan Am 103," Kerry said this week in Las Vegas, a reference to the 1988 plane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. "These are the kind of explosives that blew up the USS Cole. And there are enough explosives there to harm America."

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