Nukes! Nukes! Nukes! Run for the hills! AAAAUUUGGGHH!!

The Talent Show reports on Darth Voldemort raising the spectre of nukes again. "You know they're getting desperate when they try pulling this shit again", sayeth Greg Saunders.

Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept "you've got to get your mind around."



"The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us — biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans," Cheney said.



"That's the ultimate threat. For us to have a strategy that's capable of defeating that threat, you've got to get your mind around that concept," Cheney said.



Cheney, speaking to an invitation-only crowd as he began a bus tour through Republican strongholds in Ohio, said Kerry is trying to convince voters he would be the same type of "tough, aggressive" leader as President Bush in the fight against terrorism.

Greg is absolutely right. If there was ever a time for a "Have you no shame?" moment, it's this one. That this greedy, venal, professional fearmonger is saying that an intelligent man like John Kerry "can't get his mind around" the idea of terrorists obtaining nuclear or chemical weapons, is just mind-blowing. It's hard to believe that anything could make me hate Dick Cheney more than I did before, but this takes the cake.



Somehow I get the sense that if Kerry somehow manages to pull this thing out, Cheney will make sure that George W. Bush's buddy Osama bin Laden will GET such weapons before Cheney has to turn in the keys on January 20.



UPDATE: Perhaps he already has. Maureen Farrell at Buzzflash details and documents how the Bush Administration has left tons of nuclear material unguarded in Iraq, and now the IAEA is reporting that much of it is missing. In light of the Administration's cavalier attitude towards materials that could be used to make weapons lying willy-nilly around Iraq, Dick Cheney is the LAST person who should be saying that someone else can't "get his mind around" the idea of terrorists obtaining such weapons. It sure looks to me like it's the Administration that couldnt wrap its feeble little mind around the concept. Unless, of course, having weaponry material fall into the hands of terrorists is all part of the plan. After all, a frightened population is a controllable one.