Vice President Cheney all but explicitly claimed that a Kerry win would somehow trigger a fresh wave of international terrorist attacks against the U.S. Apparently Al Qaeda offers refresher courses in American Constitutional law, since the terrorists would be embolded by a supposed change in the White House’s philosophy on terror back to a legalistic perspective, in which terror attacks are regarded as criminal acts, as opposed to the current military perspective, which regards terror attacks as acts of war and incidentally enables the executive to engage in various side projects under the expansion of executive powers that wartime politics generally allows. That’s right, folks–bin Laden and his buddies are just waiting for you to cast your ballot for the anti-American Democrats this November.

Unfortunately, we can probably look to even more messages of the “if Kerry wins, so do the terrorists” variety before this whole ordeal is over. The whole thing is reminiscent of the flurry of claims a few months ago that the Al Qaeda bombings in Spain somehow managed to get the Socialists in power, even though outgoing President Aznar admitted that he first blamed the Basque separatists ETA, thus arousing the ire of the electorate.

Rant mode off. End communication.