Same Thing… Different Words

It all depends on who you listen to. Spin Doctors are very good at what they do. It does not matter if it is true or a lie. These are the things that you tell your children not to do. It seems that the older you get, the more acceptable it is to bend the truth to this side of the breaking point.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041028-2.html
THE PRESIDENT: And his policies make that clear. The Senator says the war on terror is primarily a law enforcement and intelligence-gathering operation. He says his goal is to go back to the days of the 1990s when terrorism was seen as a nuisance –
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041028-4.html
All of this has been, I think, essential in terms of sort of a forward-leaning strategy that's going to keep America safer than if we were to retreat behind our oceans, go back to sort of the pre-9/11 mind set, where we treated terrorism as a law enforcement problem. John Kerry the other day was quoted in The New York Times, he did an interview a couple Sundays ago, as saying that his objective for managing the war on terror was to get terror back to the point where it was just a nuisance. And then he compared it to illegal gambling and prostitution, that there's some sort of manageable level of terrorism out there that you can accept.
And when he said that, I asked myself, I said, well, when was terrorism ever just a nuisance? Was it four years ago when they attacked the USS Cole, nearly sunk it and killed 17 of our sailors off Yemen? Or six years ago when they simultaneously attacked two of our embassies in East Africa and killed hundreds of people, including a number of Americans? Or maybe it was 11 years ago when the first attack occurred on the World Trade Center in New York when they tried to take it down with a truck bomb in the basement? Or 1988 when they blew Pan Am 103 out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland? Or maybe 1983, when a suicide bomber driving a truckload of explosives drove into the ground floor of a building in Beirut, brought it down and killed 241 Marines?
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http://www.factcheck.org/article285.html

Kerry: We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. . . As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.
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That's actually not much different from what Bush himself said Aug. 30 on the NBC Today Show:
Q: Do you really think we can win this war of terror--on terror, for example, in the next four years?
Bush: I have never said we can win it in four years.
Q: No, I'm just saying, can we win it? Do you see that?
Bush: I don't--I don't think you can win it, but I think you can create conditions so that the--those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world, let's put it that way.