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Today marks one year since the death of Osama bin Laden was announced, and Republicans are predictably in a snit.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is calling on President Barack Obama to not let the killing of Osama bin Laden become a "politically divisive event."
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Indeed, the GOP would never politicize anything to do with terrorists and terrorism, and to prove it here's one of my favorite videos of all time, cut from speeches at the 2004 Republican National Convention. I've also provided a handy transcript.
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Terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists. (Original Post)
EarlG
May 2012
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marble falls
(57,080 posts)1. Romney doesn't want devisive actions over bin Laden because ....
he knows how popular bin Laden was with almost half of the US population?????????????? The "Conservative" GOP is fear mongering group of single minded mopes at he beck and call of big business raking in war profits and "security" contracts.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)2. What is the threat level color?
Has it changed since November 2004?
mcgarry50
(68 posts)3. republicons
a perfect example of moral and human failure
shawn703
(2,702 posts)4. But that's different because Zell Miller made it bipartisan in 2004
VWolf
(3,944 posts)5. There's a typo in the transcript:
The first instance of "nuclear weapons" should read "nuculer weapons", because that's what the idiot said.
This video would be funny as hell if it wasn't so sad.