"...and the bombs they had were this big.
Enormous bombs. You couldn't even fit them in the overhead baggage, so obviously
the plan was to use them to intimidate the pilot into flying into the
Liberty Tower. So to those who say we shouldn't listen in to terrorists,
that we shouldn't violate the civil liberties of mass murderers, I say 'what
do you think of them apples'. And that's something that I sincerely
believe."
"Terror wears any number of disguises. It can
come in the form of a turbaned madman smuggling mutant biological radiation
into the country, as happened in Duluth during the summer of 2003. Would the
people of Michigan be better off if we weren't on the job protecting them?
People of good conscience may say so, but I for one do not agree. Terror is
not only right around the corner, it's practically in your pants."
"But terror doesn't have to wear a turban.
I'm going to tell you another government secret that illustrates the way
that my administration is fighting the bad guys on a daily basis. This might
just scare your pants off. It's classified top secret information that I'm
giving you here, and I guarantee you that al-Qaeda is listening. But it's
come to that, hasn't it? I have to make America less safe in order to
continue making it safe. Thanks a lot, Senator Feinstein. Good luck at the
polls, Senator Botox-face."
This summer - this past summer - when many
people thought that I was vacationing on my ranch - I was actually working
with the highest echelon of our intelligence organizations to thwart a
deadly plot against America. We had found out - never you mind how - that
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 911 attacks, had recruited men
from southeast Asia to hijack a planes using shoebombs to breach the cockpit
door. That's right. One dozen American nuclear facilities were targeted for
fiery attack from above, threatening the lives of forty-five million
innocent Americans, as well as up to ten million not so innocent ones. We
didn't know the when, but we had the where and the who, and of course, there
is no why. Did these madmen succeed? No they did not, or you would have
heard about it in the news."
"But feeling safe and being safe are two
different things, and in a post-911 world, there is no reason to ever feel
safe again. When you see shoes, or even socks, alarm should be a natural
reaction. The government is only as responsive as those who would lead it.
And that would be me, the responsiveness president." |
