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One Of The Worst Things We Could Do Is Start To Act Now As Though The Attack Of 9/11 Is A Thing Of The Past And Will Never Be Repeated. That's Just Not True.

One Of The Reasons The Deficit Got As Big As It Did, Frankly, Was Because Of The Economic Slowdown, The Fall-off In Deficits, The Terrorist Attacks. A Significant Chunk Was Taken Out Of The Economy By What Happened After The Attacks Of 9/11.

The Threat Is There. It's Very Real And It's Continuing. And What The Obama People Are Doing, In Effect, Is Saying, Well, We Don't Need Those Tough Policies That We Had. That Says Either They Didn't Work, Which We Know Is Not The Case - They Did Work, They Kept Us Safe For Seven Years - Or That Now Somehow The Threat's Gone Away. There's No Longer A Threat Out There, We Don't Have To Be As Tough And Aggressive As The Bush Administration Was.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.

Direct Threats Require Decisive Action.