Reuters/yahoo spike 'terrorists for bush story.'

[Garion_55]

perhaps you all have seen this statement from al qaeda?

"It is not possible to find a leader more foolish than you, who deals with matters by force rather than wisdom. Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish balsphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization...Because of this we desire you {Bush} to be re-elected."


you used to be able to find the story the statement was in here http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0WNXFCS5U5Z3ACRBAEKSFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=4591197&pageNumber=0

only now if you go there, its a blank page.

you could also find it here http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040317/wl_nm/security_spain_truce_dc&e=2&ncid=721

thats gone too.

did they get orders to spike the story from rove? i think someone should create a commercial with the statement and broadcast it nationally. DNC?????? MOVEON??? anyone paying attention? we cant let this get buried.

[rockymountaindem]

1. I think that report was proven to be a hoax.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was discredited.

[LittleApple81]

2. I found it here: (but you are right, the others are gone.)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1068257.htm

[kclown]

5. But this raises a difficult question:

I find it easy to believe that bin-Laden & co. did 9/11 to provoke Bush & co. to invade the ME. The invasion certainly paints clear the Muslim/Christian/Jewish imbroglio. (This interpretation permits the deduction: Al Gore=no 9/11.)

But what now? Do BL&co want continued war in Iraq? If so, they can't get it by defeating Bush. Did they want continued Spanish participation? Apparently not.

I am sorry I can't state this clearly because I can't sort it out in my own mind. An Al-Qaeda attack in the U.S. between now and November would a:ensure Bush's election, or, b:ensure Bush's defeat. Is this just terrorist nihilism-propaganda by deed-or is there some coherence that we Americans can't appreciate?

Aside, much of my appreciation for this subject comes from "The Care of Time" by the incomparable Eric Ambler, ca. 1984. About $1.98 at your local used bookstore.

Next-to-lastly, the above-mentioned Muslim/Christian/Jewish imbroglio was a serious problem in world politics hundreds of years before the discovery of the Western Hemisphere. Lastly, the Kurdish nation sent a delegation to Paris in 1919 to advocate for recognition.

[quinnox]

3. I guess Bush campaign thought headline - "Al Queda backs Bush"

Would kind of undermine their not so subtle hinting in the media that a vote for Kerry is a vote that shows the terrorists win.

[feloneous cat]

4. Reality Check...Table 8...

"It is not possible to find a leader more foolish than you, who deals with matters by force rather than wisdom. Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish balsphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization...Because of this we desire you {Bush} to be re-elected."

Egad, it sounds bogus to begin with! First, afaik, the Arab world is not terribly keen on Bush - nor any American until we can prove to them that we are not just in it to screw 'em (which, lately, seems to be the case).

I would have spiked it because it sounds like crap. BushCo, etc. keep talking like al Qaeda as if they are all of one mind: wake up call, they aren't. Militant Fundies (whether they are of the Muslim or the Christian kind - we've had run ins here in the states with those folks) do not speak with one mind. Sure, there may be a "leader" - but these suckers fight amongst themselves. Hell, if you don't believe this to be true, just walk through a city in the South and tell me how many different Baptists variants there are! And why can't they seem to get along with the Catholics?

I get a lot of people who send me "true stuff" and ask me if it is true. Most of it is bogus. This smells bogus. Reasoning:

- it appeals to Democrats/Greens/Republicans who hate Bush
- it appeals to those who want to see Kerry elected
- it can NOT be corroborated (after all, to do so would admit that you are a terrorist!)

Yeah, it should never had been published in the first place.

feloneous

[ThatPoetGuy]

8. Surreality

"This smells bogus. Reasoning:

- it appeals to Democrats/Greens/Republicans who hate Bush
- it appeals to those who want to see Kerry elected
- it can NOT be corroborated (after all, to do so would admit that you are a terrorist!)

Yeah, it should never had been published in the first place."


Yes, because anything that contradicts Bush's point of view should certainly be suppressed.

What a windfall the man has been for terrorists! They must feel so lucky he's in office; it's like they won the lottery. He has wasted all our country's resources fighting a war in Iraq that never had anything to do with terrorism, but inflamed hatred all across the Arabic world. He refused a measly 12 million dollars that would have vastly improved the IRS's ability to keep funding out of terrorist hands; A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear physicist who tried to give nuclear secrets to our enemies, is still a free man, a national hero, because Bush has allowed it to happen.

[eaprez]

6. Forget it.

I think it would be a huge mistake to try to use this. It is not, after all, a good thing to be endorsed by a terrorist organization. If it helps any ones campaign it would be the Bush Campaign. They would use it to say that 'terrorists' endorse Kerry, a vote for Kerry is a vote for al Qaeda, etc....

[sam sarrha]

7. LOOK AT IT !!!! IT IS OBVIOUSLY FAKE... REALLY FAKE , the guys arms are

are not his..!! and the paper is from a FLAT page off a computer..