U.S. Can’t Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — Congress and the American public must accept that the government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants to avoid fulfilling Al Qaeda’s goal of bankrupting the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Tuesday.
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The direct reference to Mr. bin Laden echoes what is now a week’s worth of tough talk by the Bush administration about him, a move Democrats call a politically motivated effort to refocus the nation, and its voters, on the war on terror instead of the troubled conflict in Iraq.
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Maybe if he'd stop applying the terrorist laws to animal rights activists, meth dealers, Mexican illegals, if they'd stop heaping money on Lockheed-Martin for assorted "security" projects and stop inflaming the world's hatred of America with support for the rogue terrorist state of israel and the economic colonization and occupation of Iraq etc., Chertoff's budget would look a little friendlier toward protecting the US from terrorism.