Letter: Cheney’s remark was out of line

Friday, Sept. 17, 2004 | 8:55 a.m.

In 1993 there was an attack against the World Trade Center. The Clinton administration's response produced eight years of no attacks on American soil. Those eight years did not require the American people to surrender any of their freedoms or rights, unlike what's happened under the Patriot Act pushed by the Bush administration.

And never in the eight years of the Clinton presidency was the country put on a terrorist alert when the administration's negatives began to climb.

Now we have Vice President Dick Cheney saying that John Kerry is the wrong man, because there will be a better chance of a terrorist attack against the United States with a Democrat in the White House.

It's understandable that one party would think the opposition is the wrong man. It's something else, though, when the last attack happened on its own watch, and for it to assert that another attack would be more probable if the "wrong man" were elected.

TERRY E. PEELE

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