While campaigning for reelection, Vice President Dick Cheney made a speech in Carroll, Ohio, on October 19, 2004. ” ‘The biggest threat we now face as a nation,’ he said, ‘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–able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.’ ”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 147