Dick Cheney is so afraid that the Republicans are going to get a total ass kicking in a weeks time that he has to rely on terrorists in order to get out the vote.

White House transcript of Cheney’s recent interview with Conservative WDAY Radio:-

Q Are the terrorists trying to influence our election in your view?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I think they're very much aware of our political calendar here, I really do. And when you see the kinds of things that happened this year, for example, when the Democratic Party in Connecticut purged Joe Lieberman, in effect, drummed him out of the party on the grounds that he had supported the President in the global war on terror, that sends a message to the terrorists overseas that their basic strategy of trying to break the will of the American people may, in fact, work.

Al-Qieda, America’s worst enemy - not only do they seek to kill everyone, but they mounted an all out effort to get that great American, Joe Lieberman deselected. Damn their evil plots.

Osama bin Laden has talked about it. He believes firmly that we don't have the stomach for the fight long-term, that if you kill enough Americans you can change American policy. And he cites what happened in Beirut in 1983, when we lost 241 Marines, and within months, we'd withdrawn from Lebanon; or Mogadishu in 1993, when we lost people in the battle in Mogadishu, and within weeks had pulled our troops out of Somalia. So I think they are very conscious of the electoral timetable in the United States.

Interesting that the big Dick doesn’t mention Vietnam, a bloody war which the US government described as a battle between good against evil, a war in which the endless stream of US casualties and US public opposition eventually forced a change in US policy. It was a war which many of Dick’s generation had first had knowledge of, but obviously not Dick who got 5 draft deferments.

I can't say that they make a specific decision for a particular act, but there's no doubt in my mind that it's a factor that enters into their thinking.

Just so we all clear then, voting for anyone but the Republicans is a vote for the terrorists.

These people have disgraced the ideals of democracy, they have shamed their country and they have amply demonstrated their extensive incompetence at administering anything. They are going down.