Politicizing The Bin Laden Tape

[leftchick]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/31/opinion/main652487.shtml

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Holbrooke then went on the attack. "The tape shows that he's still around. We should have captured him and we haven't. And the other thing it shows, illustrates a key point which is that Senator Kerry in his relentless pursuit of terrorism is going to be very aggressive. The tape doesn't show that but Senator Kerry's comments continually--his experience shows that Osama bin Laden will draw no comfort from a Kerry presidency."

When Blitzer pointed out that President Bush scores better in all of the recent polling questions on who would handle the war on terror, Holbrooke offered a brief word of praise, and then resumed his attack. "I think that to the extent that that polling data is correct, it stems from President Bush's very effective activities right after 9/11. But the point here about what we've just seen is that Senator Kerry has said repeatedly that we should've closed the door on bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains on the Afghan/Pakistan border in December '01 and January 2002. And had we done so--had we not subcontracted the war against al Qaeda to the warlords in the area, many of whom had been in cahoots with bin Laden until a few weeks earlier, we might have captured him. Now, he is able to send out this vicious threat through al Jazeera and everyone else in the world."

Blitzer: "Are you concerned though that when Americans see this videotape--it'll be all over the news media as you can imagine, not only today but in the days to come--they will be reminded of what happened on 9/11 and they'll say, 'You know what, I'd better vote for Bush because he's tougher in dealing with al Qaeda than Kerry.'"

Said Holbrooke: "I don't think so. I think it also raises a much deeper question: How can this grotesque mass murderer be out there on worldwide television more than three years after 9/11?"

[H2O Man]

1. Great article!

Thanks for posting that. I think most people would prefer to have the guy who pulled his boat over, got out and chased down the enemy who was shooting at his people, and killed him, rather than the guy who failed to complete his National Guard duty.

[leftchick]

3. I agree excellent article!

I would take a hero over a fraud any day... :)

[lovuian]

2. Yes Osama is ALIVE!!! and looking rather well!!!

He's not in a cave but looks rather in good shape hanging out at our good friends in Pakistan and Bush was going to get him!!!

There he is terrifying and threatening us again

President Bush had 4 years to get rid of the SOB and there he is smiling back at us!!!

Kerry can do better than that !!!

[Dr Fate]

4. Bush failed to prevent the worst terror attack in history.

And he failed to make good on that by at least capturing or killing this bastard.