Posted on 10/03/2004 11:00:48 AM PDT by freespirited
``George Nethercutt's ad is a lie -- and he knows it.''
-- Sen. Patty Murray
What ad? The one showing Patty Murray at a Vancouver school telling students that Osama bin Laden is popular because he builds schools and day-care centers for people in the Arab world and we don't? Here's the quote:
``He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better. We have not done that.''
Sen. Murray is furious, saying that the ad insinuates that she supports bin Laden. No, that is not what the commercial conveys. Any candidate who ran an ad suggesting that his opponent supports bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks would simply be laughed out of the race. Her supporters in the Seattle media who echo her accusations should step back and take a closer look.
What the ad actually shows is Patty Murray unplugged: without the advisers, consultants and speechwriters. The ad is not at all out of context (I've heard the longer tape and have talked to Sen. Murray about it). She rhetorically asks the students why bin Laden was so popular in parts of the Arab world, then answers her own question by essentially arguing that the man is a Latter-day Arab New Dealer. She then contrasted bin Laden's generosity with our own parsimony, concluding that maybe if we were ``better neighbors out in other countries'' they might think better of us.
Let me say this as succinctly as possible: The senator is wrong on every count. She is wrong about bin Laden's generosity, she is dreadfully wrong about American parsimony and she is wrong about why he is popular in some of these places. Bin Laden's followers aren't building infrastructure, they're blowing it up -- in Afghanistan, Iraq, Spain, Russia, Bali, the Philippines, Turkey, etc. As for bin Laden himself, who is now either dead or in deep hiding, he has never built a day-care center in his life. He would condemn their very existence. Any medical facilities he built were for jihadists injured in battle. There is no record of his building any schools, (which of course would be closed to girls), but some of his money may have gone toward militant maddrasses where boys are immersed in a world of hatred of Israel, Jews, Americans and the West, a curriculum that morphs them into the kind of Islamic fanatics that cheer suicide bombers the way that kids cheer Ichiro.
He built a militant mosque in Afghanistan, but again, the purpose was to foment blind hatred of the West. If Patty Murray walked down a street in business attire and no headcover in bin Laden's Afghanistan, she'd be beaten with sticks in broad daylight. Calling the cops wouldn't help; the cops would be the ones beating her.
``He's made life better for them?'' Show me where, Sen. Murray. Name the country. Name the town. Saying that bin Laden built infrastructure in Afghanistan is like saying that crackpot racist Richard Butler, who ran the Aryan Nations compound, built infrastructure in Hayden Lake, Idaho.
As for Sen. Murray's claims that Americans have not helped build schools, hospitals and roads, she is simply mistaken. America is doing more than any other country to build the infrastructure of a nation decimated by eight years of Taliban rule. The senator has acknowledged on the radio that she was wrong to make that claim when she made it.
But Sen. Murray's biggest mistake -- and that of the media trying to cover for her -- is tying bin Laden's popularity to his phantom generosity. Bin Laden is popular for the same reason the Jordanian killer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is popular: He murders people and terrorizes Western societies that his followers already despise. He's playing offense against the infidels.
Our response should be two-fold. First, target the terrorists that are targeting us, and second, plant the flag of democracy in the very places they have operated from. Nothing is as deadly to religious fascists as the light of liberty and democracy. That's why they're killing voter registrars in Afghanistan. That's why they're blowing up schoolchildren in Iraq. We either run or we win. George Nethercutt has already figured that out. Patty Murray, after nearly a dozen years in the U.S. Senate, still has it wrong.
I wouldn't say she has 'little excuse'. I would say she has NO excuse. And no room for complaining. Unless she wants to claim that it isn't her in that video.
McDermott is my Congressman.
I live in hell.
I'd say "Yes".
The Washington voters have a chance to show that they are smarter.
My condolences, Psycho Bunny.
She might say "schools," but what he was really doing was building terror infrastructure. And yes, that is popular in Afghanistan.
LOL...I live in Hell with you!
You have my sympathy. My Senator is a RINO (Collins-Maine), but yours is a modern version of Tokyo Rose.
Ouch.
Patty Murray is a cause for alarm....
Let her whine about this 24/7 - it will only raise awareness of her ignorance.
I, like you, live in the state of WA. Don't bother writing her and telling her how you feel, she'll answer you with "I'm doing what I think is best for you", and I wrote her back stating "that isn't your job, you work for me". She hasn't written me since.
OH, after 3 years somebody noticed Jihad Patty? Isn't it wonderful how the truth all of a sudden gets noticed because someone with a platform larger than ours makes noise?
We screamed and jeered and protested Patty Murray, Letter campaigns, MSM contacted and ignored us, on and on, but what do we know, we wear pajamas.
Patty Murray should be in jail for treason or sedition.
I'm so sorry! It's bad enough having two Liberals in Senate and a Liberal Gov, but McDermott too? Ouch!
I'm thrilled Nethercutt is running this in his ad campaign. She deserves to be hit with these words repeatedly.
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