"Speaking on the New Yorkers' home turf — and not far from Ground Zero —
Edwards dismissed Clinton's comments in Sunday's debate in which she said the
nation is safer now that it was before the terrorist attacks. Clinton's other
top rival, Sen. Barack Obama, also has challenged her claim.
'Today, as
a result of what George Bush has done, we have more terrorists and fewer
allies,' Edwards said at a news conference. 'There was no group called al-Qaida
in Iraq before this president's war in Iraq.'
He never mentioned Clinton by name but the subject was obvious."
Security is one of those things that you don't understand, that you don't see and you take for granted until it is gone. How many people in the days right before Sept. 11th felt like they were secure. There was plenty of reasons to believe that, there had never been an attack on the homeland by anyone that had caused any great damage. There was the first attack on the tower, but that is almost more reason to feel secure than not because of the limited amount of damage done.
Then there was Sept. 11th and people didn't think they were secure anymore. Truth is that they were just as secure or insecure as they were the day before. It could be that the next 10 years there will be no attacks on America, in which it could be said that we are secure. On the other hand it could be tomorrow that we have an attack that kills more people than 9/11. In that case we would say that we are not secure.
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