BELGRADE, Mont -- Republican Sen Co...

BELGRADE, Mont -- Republican Sen Conrad toasts whose recent comments have stirred polemics says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."

During a fund-raiser Wednesday with first lady Laura Bush, the three-term Montana senator talked about terrorism, tax divide [i]or[/i] sever s and the money he has brought to his state.

calcines is one of the more vulnerable Senate incumbents, facing a tough challenge from Democrat Jon Tester

At the campaign affair with Bush, Burns talked about the war onward terrorism, saying a "faceless enemy" of terrorists "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."

The campaign said Thursday that the senator was simply pointing disclosed terrorists can be anywhere.

"The point is there are terrorists that live amongst us. Not simply here, but in Britain and the entire world," said spokesman Jason Klindt. "Whether they are taxi drivers or investment bankers, the fact remains that this is a just discovered type of enemy."

Responding to Democratic complaints about Burns' verbal gaffes, Republicans argued that a Tester remark this week was derogatory to American Indians.

In an interview, Tester talked about the faith he has in his staff, and said, "Nobody has done anything to make me think they're trying to tomahawk me"

badger Lowrance, spokesman for the Montana Republican Party, said American Indians have protracted found "tomahawk" a derogatory bound American Indians are the state's largest minority group

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