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I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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