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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 02:51 PM
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Kerry Accuses Bush Of Abandoning Bin Laden Hunt


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Kerry Accuses Bush Of Abandoning Bin Laden Hunt
Senator To Tailgate At Cy-Hawk Game

INDIANOLA, Iowa -- Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is accusing President George W. Bush of abandoning the hunt for Osama bin Laden and deceiving Americans about the war in Iraq.

Kerry, who spoke Friday in Indianola, said Bush has tried to shut down the CIA unit that was hunting bin Laden but the Senate voted to keep it going.

Earlier in the day Bush said the hunt will continue until bin Laden is captured.

But Kerry questions why an overwhelming majority of American troops are in Iraq instead of Afghanistan, where bin Laden and other terrorists had trained.


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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 03:10 PM
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1. All Bush Cares about is Iraqi Oil
Bin Laden probably works for Bush. At this point, I feel Bush is capable of such a thing, and it puzzles me as to HOW Bush could be allies with Pakistan, a country that harbors him, yet won't ask Pakistan to get him....
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 03:12 PM
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2. watch the neocons try to squirm out of this one.
this has got to be cranking up the current on cheney's pacemaker.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 03:40 PM
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3. bush has admitted it already, it's a slam-dunk for kerry
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 03:56 PM
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4. I like how Kerry stays on Bush about Osama. Here's hoping Dems will follow
:thumbsup:
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 04:04 PM
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5. Yes, Kerry is on message and on target!
Yesterday they showed McCain after he came out of a committee vote that voted against Bush's torture plan, right behind him one could see Hillary wearing a red dress walking past McCain very fast. How I wish Hillary would have said something about Bush being wrong about the Geneva Convention, and wrong it was to have an American President publicly advocate torture as a legitimate means of interrogation.

Hillary missed another opportunity to speak.

Kerry did not miss!
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Truthiness Inspector Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 04:07 PM
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6. It's great to see Kerry out there swinging! n/t
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Cornerstone Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 04:13 PM
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7. Kerry doesn't have to point to that as proof
Edited on Sat Sep-16-06 04:14 PM by Cornerstone
What about the time he uttered those memoriable words, "I don't know where Bin Laden is. I don't care where he is!"

That too, just kept his ratings at the then status quo! Unbelievable!
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fshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 04:27 PM
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8. This is not about a man.
Validating the Dr. No version of the world validates the Idiot's defensive positions and the manicheism on which this entire mandate, regardless of the issue, is based.
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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 05:05 PM
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9. Go Johnny, go! WWKRD? What Would Karl Rove Do if he were
on the other side, given Dubya's flip-flops on the urgency of justice for bin Laden, and five years of letting the worst crimiinal in US history run free?
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Selteri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 05:08 PM
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10. He abandoned the hunt on 12/01, less than three months after 9/11/01
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 06:31 PM
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11. Be careful Sen. Kerry - I think the * administration has known all along
where OBL is and if you sit there critiquing him, BushCo. may pull OBL out of his hole (most likely dead) and then it was the perfect set up.

PS: Not that I think the criticism isn't valid, I just believe that this could be a set up for Kerry or anyone who now critiques the search of OBL.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 09:14 PM
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13. That's the problem and always has been. The Dems KNOW by now that
BushInc is damn well capable of that level of deception AND they have most of the media prepared to accept whatever storyline they deliver.

That has to completely fuck with some part of their head and what they would all LIKE to say out loud - even other GOPs.
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:42 PM
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14. They may be capable of that level of deception but not that level of
competence. I just can't see these morons pulling something that takes actual planning off.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 08:20 AM
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16. Only because it was planned well in advance by those unseen hands who CAN
pull it off. The same circle who pulled off the 80 election thru Iranian hostage crisis, and BCCI for so many years, and Clinton's impeachment.

The invisible or lesser known string pullers.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 07:40 PM
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12. keep it up Kerry
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NOLADEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 06:44 AM
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15. Ya know, there are only so many explanations for Bush's actions
Attempting to shut down the hunt for Bin Laden leaves only a handful of explanations, none of which are very flattering for the Bush cabal.

1. They need him free.
2. They know where he is and no longer need to hunt.
3. They know he is dead and won't say because of the need to keep a boogey man out there.
4. They don't care.
5. They don't want to catch someone who they are in biz with.
6. They are cowards who don't want to provoke our Pakistani 'allies'.


Which is it?

They should all be sent to the Hague. America needs to wake the fuck up...Our 'liberal' media should be HOWLING about this. Their silence speaks for itself.
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