Please, e-mail CNN and ask them to include the question JK was asked

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where he responded about getting terrorism down to the level of a nuisance.

As usual, they are repeating the Bush talking points and taking the comment out of context.

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1. kerry will lessen the threat of terrorism

by using his brain to attack and handle terrorism.

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2. Maybe you can include the question here for us too!

Would make it easier to email CNN

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3. OK, here is some of the information.

CNN's contact page - contact CNN TV

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/ - I sent it to the America 2004 link on the page.

Here is a link to the NYT Mag article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?oref=login

Here is the full quote B/C and CNN are taking out of context:

"When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''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.''

This analogy struck me as remarkable, if only because it seemed to throw down a big orange marker between Kerry's philosophy and the president's. Kerry, a former prosecutor, was suggesting that the war, if one could call it that, was, if not winnable, then at least controllable. If mobsters could be chased into the back rooms of seedy clubs, then so, too, could terrorists be sent scurrying for their lives into remote caves where they wouldn't harm us. Bush had continually cast himself as the optimist in the race, asserting that he alone saw the liberating potential of American might, and yet his dark vision of unending war suddenly seemed far less hopeful than Kerry's notion that all of this horror -- planes flying into buildings, anxiety about suicide bombers and chemicals in the subway -- could somehow be made to recede until it was barely in our thoughts. "