One leader, one victim

Another Dick Cheney interview in Australia, this time with The Australian, and now the claim that people criticise the USA's anti-terrorism policies only because they didn't have direct experience of 9/11 --

And we -- especially after 9/11 felt required to take action that not everybody agreed with. But then we had firsthand experience of the consequences of a failure to act. And so I think one of the results of that is some people who disagree with those actions or I think in some cases may hope that it's not necessary to be as aggressive as we've been take exception to the policies that we put in place. But I also like to remind them they weren't there in New York and Washington on 9/11 when we lost 3,000 one morning to 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box cutters.

Cheney therefore implicitly claims that everyone who was in New York and Washington supports his policies, and that 9/11 is only terrorist event allowed to inform one's opinion of anti-terrorism policies. He also overlooks the fact that his boss was in neither city on 9/11.