Posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:55 PM PST by dennisw
There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.
That's reason to be outraged - but even more outrageous is the fact that in a flurry of sound bites what was lost was a real discussion of the fact that more than four years after the devastating attacks of 9/11, more than four years after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against the United States.
John Kerry's diary :: :: Here's what I'd like to see debated on Hardball.
President Bush's mouthpiece Scott McClellan can claim this administration puts terrorists out of business, but yesterday's tape reminds us that instead of being out of business, Osama is still out there.
If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the world would be a better place with Osama Bin Laden brought to justice -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion today.
And here's what the media should insist we discuss.
President Bush and his defenders continue to claim that Osama Bin Laden didn't escape at Tora Bora. But Gary Bernstein's book Jawbreaker documents what I said early in 2002 and during my debates with George Bush: that because Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon didn't use American troops to do the job and instead outsourced the job of killing the world's #1 terrorist to Afghan warlords, this cold blooded killer got away.
So what's the truth? There's a question that the full force of cable television should demand be answered. Press accounts over the last month have raised new concerns about the reliance on Afghan forces at Tora Bora in 2001. One account cited a Department of Defense document said to summarize the case against a suspected al Qaeda militant. The militant was believed to have helped Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. More recently, August Hanning, the head of German intelligence, has said bin Laden bribed Afghan forces at Tora Bora to make his escape.
The evidence keeps mounting:
Isn't it time we had the truth? Yes or no, did Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2001?
Here's a subject suited for true hard ball, on Hardball: four years of failure - enough is enough - why hasn't Osama Bin Laden been captured or killed, and how will he be destroyed before he next appears on tape to spread his disgusting message?
That discussion -- rather than criticizing American citizens who exercise their right to free speech and express dissenting opinions - is the discussion that America needs. That would be the kind of debate on Hardball to which we should all tune in.
John Kerry
P.S. I want you all to know that Im reading your many comments. My wife Teresa reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and Im glad I can be a part of this and frankly Im not worried about taking some slings and arrows along the way. Ive faced worse! So keep the comments coming -- good, bad, hopefully not indifferent.
Okay, so what evidence that this is the golddigger/Purple Heart fraud/Demoncratic candidate we all know and love. Hey His Kerriness and his ATM wife wouldn't be caught dead hanging around the Kos crowd. It's sooo blue collar...
Or a clue.
Kerry obsession with Tora Bora and outsourcing are trademarks.
I know the record of John McCain. I'll respect his service, but that doesn't make his sh!t gold. In fact, like Kerry, I see very little I like in McCain at all. He should take his act on the road and run with Hillary...and he probably would if asked.
The meter is him, too. Imagine him reading it aloud.
One of his speechwriters wrote it.
Are you questioning his patriotism? He served in Vietnam you know.
Osamas bin dead and buried.
Yap he sure is, think of all the hell the weirdos in Hollywood go thru to hide from the media. I have not seen Bin Dead once, since Tora Bora! Yap, he is dead Jim,,,,lol!
Don't forget Teresa--she was a lot of fun too.
BFLR - ping...
With all the references to HardBall, it might be Chrissy.
Kerry served in Vietnam? Who knew?
Was Kerry wearing his pajamas when he wrote to the Kos blog?
Well John, may I call you John? You must be reading FR too. You see, on the Web, we are the 800 lbs gorilla in the bed room, so to speak. We've spanked journalists, congressmen, and even a president, John.
So John, would you be so kind as to sign your SF 180? Thanks in advance...maybe we can then find out if the medic got all those kernels of rice out of your a$$.
Oh, and one more thing John, say 'high' to Teresa for me.
5.56mm
Hope you got a pre-Nup Johnny boy cause your slut wife only puts up with you in anticipation of her ticket to the White House. If I were you I would be looking over my shoulder for the divorce lawyers and the eviction crew.
I think I'm going to puke. You should read some of the comments and one says it's been confirmed that it is Kerry by Markos.
Here's an example:
Puleezzzzzz....... (4.00 / 2)
John Kerry is highly intelligent and articulate. Why would anyone assume he can't write his own diary.
And if you're reading these comments please pass on good wishes to that great lady you married.
(BARF)
I could hear that foghorn drone of his through every wretched word of that miserable little screed.
Thanks for the ping!
That should be good for about 50 million votes.
God help us all.
Not to defend the Senator, but we declared war on Germany on Dec 10, 1941. By April 30, 1945 Hitler was dead and everyone knew it. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. That's about 3.5 yrs by my count.
Bush declared war on AQ and "dead or alive" right after 9/11. We're now coming up on 4.5 yrs this March and Osama is still out there.
It seems like he's lasted longer than the Fuehrer did by at least a year.
Bush has done a lot of things right but he's failed in getting Osama and if he leaves office in 2009 and Osama is still making tapes that'll be an even bigger failure.
If Clinton had gone 4.5 yrs without getting Osama I know all the conservatives would be all over him. But one rarely sees conservatives criticize Bush for failing to get Osama.
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