Cheney was briefly interrupted by an anti-war protester, 65-year-old Dan Winters of Boulder, who held up a sign and yelled, "What about the children in Iraq?"

Winters was quickly quieted by security officers and hustled out of the hall. The crowd reacted to the protester, drowning out Cheney's speech with chants of "USA! USA!USA!"

Cheney said America will lead a coalition to hunt down terrorists. "The only path to safety is the path of action," he said.

Saddam Hussein is pressing forward with weapons of mass destruction and the U.S. government "will not look the other way," Cheney said.

"Either Saddam Hussein will give up his weapons of mass destruction or, for the sake of peace, the United States will disarm him," Cheney said.

But Winters, a member of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace, said he doesn't believe Cheney has made a case for attacking Iraq.

"What is our moral justification? What is our right to attack another country?" he said.

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