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."

[Bigg Red]

Oops! Should be

Telling lies is a bad habit to break.

[leprechaun9]

Hey Mario, in your last year as governor, you wrote a $50,000 contract with an Arkansas Law Firm. The New York Post asked you in a headline, "Aren't there enough Lawyers in NY? And are none of them qualified to do legal work for the State of NY?

Oh by the way, the law firm was THE ROSE LAW FIRM! We know of their expertise in handling bills for services!

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

What do you have?