Bush revamps fighting terrorism message

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_fighting_them_here

Bush revamps fighting terrorism message

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Thu Aug 24, 11:23 AM ET

WASHINGTON - In the thick of an election campaign,
President Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the U.S. must fight terrorists overseas or face them here. Despite the unpopularity of the
Iraq war, some GOP candidates are borrowing Bush's line.


"We leave before the mission is done, the terrorists will follow us here," Bush warned at a news conference this week.

Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., locked in a tight Philadelphia-area re-election race, went a step further. "We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here," he said Wednesday in an interview with CNN.

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The fight-them-there theme has been part of Bush's national security stump speech since 2003. But the "follow us here" part is a relatively new twist.

Noting polls that show growing Iraq war opposition, Bush and other Republicans have been stressing links between Iraq and the broader war against terrorism — a connection Democrats generally dismiss.

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[ixion]

1. that's all these thugs ever do: tweak 'the message'

:grr:

[grilled onions]

2. In The Supermarkets????

All they need to do is record their "message", toss in a few different ways to say the same thing and hand out copies to anyone willing to listen. My player will stay in shut off mode,thank you.

[TwoHandedLayup]

7. I have to pick up some milk tonight

Am I safe? Should I take the up armored honda?

[dflprincess]

12. They'll clog up the express lane

by trying to check out more than 10 items.

[Missy M]

3. Weldon is a real ass....

if we leave Iraq I will have to fight terrorists in the supermarket. I wonder which aisle the fighting will take place in. Will they have a Green Zone for us non-military?

[VegasWolf]

4. Gives new meaning to, "Clean-up in aisle 3!" nt

[Missy M]

6. It sure does. That is hilarious!!!

[NYC]

13. Ice cream aisle.

I'm not kidding. Way back, Osama and the ice cream aisle had something to do with each other. Maybe someone else remembers details.

[MasonJar]

5. That's right, Stump, don't do anything to improve things; just go

out there and change the message.

[TwoHandedLayup]

8. Wasn't Weldon against the war?

I know he was critical of Bush at some point, but I can't remember what. I guess you have to tow the line to get funding......

[MisterP]

9. reminds me of how Reagan said the Nicaraguans

would invade San Antonio and be driven off by a football player

[pinto]

10. LOL. The Weldon quote is a hoot.

[goforit]

11. Tell me did the CNN special "Osama" promote his propaganda?

[Amonester]

14. Why no-one tells the lil' criminal Vietcongs never blew-up $uper-...

markets when the US abandoned Saigon in a hurry??

Someone should give him a clue, 'cuz he must have been too frosted at the time to even notice...

[EnviroBat]

15. Follow us here?

They're ALREADY HERE! They are occupying the Whithouse!