FredWatch: "Osama is more symbolism than anything else" = "I can't catch him and I won't even try"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thompson Warns of al-Qaida Threats

MIKE GLOVER | September 7, 2007 08:07 PM EST | AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070907/thompson-bin-laden/

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Republican Fred Thompson said Friday that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is "more symbolism than anything else" as the presidential hopeful warned of possible greater al-Qaida threats within the United States.

As a new video surfaced from bin Laden days before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Thompson focused on the broader war on terrorism and the Iraq conflict. He argued that not only are the United States and Iraqi forces making progress in Iraq, but that public support for the war is increasing.

The new video of bin Laden is his first in three years. Thompson played down its release in talking to reporters on his second day of campaigning in Iowa.

"Bin Laden being in the mountains of Pakistan or Afghanistan is not as important as there are probably al-Qaida operatives inside the United States of America," Thompson said.

[Olney Blue]

1. That's one of the better pictures of Fred that I've seen!

:rofl:

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I guess you could call the World Trade Center "symbols" too then, if

you were a wretched republic shit-for-brains who refuses to even mention Iraq.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Fred needs a clue when he stated....

""Bin Laden being in the mountains of Pakistan or Afghanistan is not as important as there are probably al-Qaida operatives inside the United States of America"

EARTH TO FRED.....

MAYBE THE AL-QAIDA OPERATIVES ARE IN THE UNITED STATES CAUSE BIN LADEN SENT THEM!

:shrug:


HELLOOOOOooooooo?

[MadMaddie]

4. yep another idiot....a lazy idiot

[FrenchieCat]

5. Ain't even willing to "say" he'll hunt down Osama!

Guess Osama will be endorsing Drop Dead Fred any moment now! :crazy:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Exactly...he minimizes his significance and then lights up a nice fat Cohiba.

Fred's a lazy slob. He wants to be Ronnie Reagan, and the freepers want him to be Ronnie Reagan, but he's just a mouth-breathing slob.

[rurallib]

7. In this corner - Fred Thompson. In this corner Osama B. Laden

Come out swinging at the bell Men!