While lambasting skeptics who say the United States has lost the war in Iraq, Shurtleff referred to Salt Lake City's mayor as "Iraqi Rocky" Anderson and chided the U.S. Senate majority leader, calling him "Hezbollah Harry" Reid.

Utah's attorney general also drew parallels between Anderson and Reid, and Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally and Hanoi Hannah - a trio of radio propagandists who broadcast on behalf of Japan and Germany, and North Vietnam during World War II and the Vietnam War, respectively.

Shurtleff accused the Salt Lake City mayor of using the national stage to further his own interests, in the process giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

And though he described himself as a champion of dialogue, he said there must be limits.

"When 'Hezbollah Harry' says we've lost the war, that's reported to the troops, to insurgents, to Hezbollah and Hamas," Shurtleff said.

And that, he added, contributes to the proliferation of bombs and IEDs - improvised explosive devices - that kill and injure U.S. troops in Iraq.

"We are at war with an enemy who wants to kill you," Shurtleff told a crowd of around 50 people, mostly Cheney supporters, as they gathered on the lawn outside Provo's Academy Library. "Now I hear an Al-Jazeera reporter is here in town looking for every criticism and put that into the hands of the enemy."