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KERRY: “I think it\u2019s somewhere between. I think that there has been an exaggeration and there\u2019s been a refocusing ?”<\/line>BROKAW: “Where has the exaggeration been on the threat on terrorism?”<\/line>KERRY: “Well, 45 minutes deployment of weapons of mass destruction, #1. Aerial vehicles to be able to deliver materials of mass destruction, #2. I mean, I can — nuclear weapons, #3. I can run a long list of clear misleading, clear exaggeration. The linkage to Al-Qaeda, #4. That said, they are really misleading all of America, Tom, in a profound way. The War on Terror is less — it is occasionally <\/emphasize>military, and it will be, and it will continue to be for a long time…”<\/line>RUSH: Now, stop! Stop the tape! Stop the tape. Now, folks, I want you to listen to this because you think the meat of this has occurred, and it has, but I mean what he closes here with sounds awfully good, but I\u2019m going to nuke it here when he finishes it.<\/line>KERRY: “…and we will need the best trained and the most well equipped and the most capable military such as we have today, but it\u2019s primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world, the very thing this administration is worst at.”<\/line>RUSH: All right. Now, so what Senator Kerry is saying — let\u2019s put it into real life. Senator Kerry says Bush has exaggerated the threat of terrorism, but I don\u2019t think what he cites are examples of terrorism per se. I mean, he talks about the weapons of mass destruction, and the nuclear weapons, and aerial vehicles. He\u2019s simply talking about Iraq there. And, of course, the liberals themselves have always said that Al-Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq. Isn\u2019t it interesting how they keep going in back and forth? <\/line>We went in “unilaterally” but now Spain was one of our biggest and loyal allies? These people frost me, folks. I\u2019m just going to tell you, they frost me. But they wouldn\u2019t frost me if it weren\u2019t for the fact that they\u2019ve got a bunch of parrots who the mainstream media that keep squawking this absolutely convoluted bilge that the Democrats keep uttering because if it weren\u2019t for the mainstream media and their megaphone nobody would hear the cockamamie things they say, or it wouldn\u2019t be given credibility, which it is. So Senator Kerry is saying that if he were president, he would have had a decent intelligence agency, and we would have been able to not only stop 9\/11, but we would have been able to stop what happened in Spain.<\/line><\/p>\n

All right, let\u2019s move on 9\/11. Let\u2019s go to Spain. Let\u2019s say that Kerry is president and let\u2019s say that he has built up the intelligence committee which he won\u2019t because he single-handedly cut it with his votes. But let\u2019s just play the game here of hypotheticals and say that Kerry\u2019s big new CIA — What a joke: John Kerry and a big CIA is an oxymoron. It isn\u2019t going to happen. But let\u2019s say there are a big CIA and John Kerry\u2019s got it and really good, and we find out a week or two before the Madrid blast that it\u2019s going to happen, and they find out the exact moment it\u2019s going to happen. They know who\u2019s going to do it, and they know where. That\u2019s what Kerry\u2019s promising us. He can do this.<\/line>Okay. Now, what do you do? It\u2019s two weeks or two days or a week or whatever the time frame, and you find out it\u2019s going to happen. Of course you\u2019re never really sure it\u2019s going to happen, and until somebody does something, you can\u2019t stop \u2019em, right? In the legal system. What\u2019s Senator Kerry going to do? Why, he says the answer to this is not military. That\u2019s not the way to fight this. So I guess what we\u2019re going to do is indict them? So we\u2019re going to find out who the terrorists are, and we\u2019re going to know the names of the guys that are going to set the bombs and set them off with the cell phone detonators. <\/line> We\u2019re going to know all of this and we\u2019re going to know it in plenty of time to identify them. We\u2019re going to know where they are and we\u2019re going to have a bunch of process servers dress up as whatever kind of figure that would fool the terrorists, go in and serve a subpoena and a warrant and say, “Guess what? You\u2019ve been indicted.” Is that how we\u2019re going to stop these guys, because that\u2019s what Kerry is saying. My point, ladies and gentlemen, is — because the Democrats are out there now saying, and this is just so predictable, the Democrats are now saying, “Our trains are not safe enough. ” May be true, not for terrorism, because Amtrak runs them. But that\u2019s another story.<\/line>Our trains aren\u2019t safe enough. Well, oh, what are we going to do? What are <\/emphasize>we going to do? How we going to make our trains safer? What are we going to do? There\u2019s one way to do this, folks, and that is this: you take out the people who would do it. You take out the terrorists. That\u2019s what our policy is. You find them and you take \u2019em out. You don\u2019t indict \u2019em and try \u2019em, for crying out loud! This is where Kerry\u2019s whole argument falls apart. He sounds all big and tough. Big CIA, big intelligence agency, powerful military. We\u2019re not going to use it, though, because we\u2019re going to put these people through the rigors of the U.S. law enforcement. Well…(chuckling) I\u2019m sorry, folks, it\u2019s laughable.<\/line><\/p>\n

So we\u2019re going to stop the Madrid terrorist bombing with indictments and the threat of jail time. Has Kerry ever heard of suicide bombers? Now, last hour, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I also raised a question, very important question, because, as I say, in Madrid the [socialists] were not the winners. Or, the socialists are not the winners as is being portrayed. The terrorists won that election. And in fact Al-Qaeda websites all over the world are claiming that they have forced out America\u2019s ally Aznar. Whether they did or not they\u2019re claiming credit for it all over their website. So they\u2019re people are going to think they did it, which is what they want.<\/line>And so their question that they\u2019re asking, they say, “What do we do next and where?” Now, their biggest enemy was not Spain, biggest enemy is not France, biggest enemy is not Australia, biggest enemy is not New Zealand, biggest enemy is not the Caribbean superpower of Belize. Their biggest enemy is the United States. So what are the terrorists thinking? Could they try to replicate what they did in Spain by having a terrorist bombing here between now and the elections? Or could they wait and have no terrorist activity here and try… See, I think that if they launch a terrorist attack, Democrats are finished. I don\u2019t think the American people are going to hold anything against Bush. <\/line>I think a terrorist attack in this country again… After this, the people who are preaching getting-along-with-\u2019em-ism like the Democrats are and surrender and all this are not going to be rewarded by the American people. But the terrorists, I\u2019m not sure they may read it this way. This is an open question. I mean, if there\u2019s a terrorist attack in this country again before the election the left, of course, would do its best to blame it on Bush despite everything that he\u2019s done, and of course despite the left\u2019s objection and obstruction every step of the way, Bush has accomplished a lot here. But I have to believe that the American people would rally behind Bush and reject the left\u2019s efforts at political exploitation, but I could be wrong. <\/line>But I do happen to think the terrorists might not look at it that way. Terrorists might think an action here before the election would doom Bush. And, ladies and gentlemen, if they think they succeeded in Spain by getting rid of an anti-terror administration there, what do they want here? What do they want? So the only real question is, if Al-Qaeda is active and capable, what are they going to do, because we know what they want. They want Kerry. They want the Democrats in power. They\u2019d love that, based simply on what they\u2019re saying and how they\u2019re reacting on what happened in Spain. I\u2019m not guessing. Don\u2019t throw this off on me. I am just looking at what their reaction is to what happened in Spain. They\u2019re all excited that a hard-line anti-terrorist is defeated. So I assume that they\u2019d like the same thing to happen here. So the question is: In their minds if they think they can get what they want in this country with terrorist attacks, how will they do it and when? That\u2019s the question.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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