Cuomo: Bush Ties to Bin Ladens Compromised War on Terror

NewsMax ^ | 1/21/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo charged Wednesday that President Bush made Saddam Hussein the U.S.'s number one target in the war on terror in part because his family had business dealings with relatives of Osama bin Laden.

On hand to discuss the 2004 presidential election at a 21 Club breakfast with a panel of guests that included "60 Minutes" correspondent Leslie Stahl, radio host Monica Crowley, Democratic consultant Robert Zimmerman and commentator Bay Buchanan, Cuomo excoriated Bush for mishandling both the economy and the war on terror, complaining at one point:

"Who's winning the war on terrorism? The whole world is mad at us."

Then, addressing Bush in absentia, the former New York governor railed:

"You killed 60,000 Iraqis - most of them innocent - to start that war in Iraq. You lost 1,000 American men and women to start that war in Iraq - when the real war on terrorism was against Osama bin Laden, something that you knew well, whose family you had dealt with in Saudi Arabia."

Sounding eager to rejoin the political battle, the retired Democratic Party elder statesman continued to blast Bush:

"You left that battle and left al Qaeda there to fight a tyrant who was a pushover for us. And you're going to tell me you think the war on terror was a good thing?"

Asked to explain his claim that President Bush had dealings with the bin Ladens, Cuomo cited a New York Times report that noted that both Bush's father and members of bin Laden's family belonged to the Carlyle Group, a global investment company.

"The story astonished me," Cuomo said. "There's no question that Osama bin Laden's family was invested in Carlyle, Carlyle was invested in Mideast oil and everybody knows it. And so was the first president Bush."

[jwfiv]

Ah, so...the failed Governor Culo is doing is Howard Dean impression...can't be a good Dem these days without it.

Whatta maroon.

[OldFriend]

There are no words.

[SF Republican]

Do any democrats not get drunk before they make public statements?

[nuconvert]

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

A Public Apology Isn't Enough!!!!

[sinkspur]

Oh Lord. Mario the Pious is spouting conspiracy theories.

Has the entire Democrat party lost its mind?

[JmyBryan]

It's kind of funny watching half of the US population go insane ...

[Levante]

"You killed 60,000 Iraqis - most of them innocent - to start that war in Iraq. You lost 1,000 American men and women to start that war in Iraq"

Wonder where this A.H. gets his hyperinflated figures...

Probably Al-Jah-Zero.

[Always Right]

So you invest through an investment company that happens to have relatives of a terrorist and this makes you like family to the terrorist. Yeah, that's the ticket....

[WinOne4TheGipper]

As the Dems don their tinfoil,
The public starts to recoil
Saying it isn't enough
They believe this stuff
It's making our blood boil.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[shiva]

Governor Culo

LOL!! I hadn't heard that word since I was a little kid!

[The Iguana]

There are so many lies and mistakes in this brief interview that I scarcely know where to begin.

[CdMGuy]

Who would want an apology from that jerk. He couldn't even make it as a radio talk show host.

[Poser]

Could the Democrats possibly stoop any lower? Mario Cuomo has officially moved from "wrong but respectable" to "loathsome."

He shure has fallen a long way since his fabulous keynote at the Democrat convention.

[babble-on]

he just wants you to focus on the ridiculous numbers, so you don't focus on how stupid the rest of this moronic point is.

[Poser]

Uh... sure, not shure.

Thet sheur are ambearassing!

[nuconvert]

I WANT to hear him APOLOGIZE. Prime Time on all 3 networks and CNN and MSNBC and FOX.

[livius]

Maybe Cuomo has Mad Dean Disease?

[mc5cents]

Has the entire Democrat party lost its mind?

YUP!