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Here's what the Libertarian Party has to say about today (Let's compare it with what Kerry says, shall we? LOL)

Bush should commemorate Sept. 11 attacks
by tracking down bin Laden, Badnarik says

WASHINGTON -- The best way for President Bush to commemorate the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks is to pull out of Iraq and use those troops to
track down Osama bin Laden instead, Libertarians say.

"Who would you rather see sitting in a U.S. prison cell right now:
Saddam Hussein, or Osama bin Laden?" asked Michael Badnarik,
Libertarian presidential candidate. "If the president had made an all-
out effort to capture the man who had just murdered thousands of
innocent Americans, instead of a man who had no connection to that
attack, the United States might be a much safer place right now."

On the grisly anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, Badnarik says Americans have a right to ask
their commander-in-chief -- who has made the war on terrorism the
centerpiece of his re-election campaign -- why the perpetrators remain
at large.

One reason, Badnarik says, may be the war in Iraq -- which was a
dangerous diversion of military resources.

"Had Bush directed our troops to seal off the border between
Afghanistan and Pakistan and launched an all-out effort to find bin
Laden, they might have succeeded in capturing the mastermind of the
attacks that killed 3,000 innocent Americans," he said. "Instead, Bush
sent U.S. troops into Iraq -- an action that resulted in the death of
1,000 more Americans.

"The nation is in deep trouble when the president's response to a
terror attack kills one-third as many Americans as the attack itself."

Not only is the Iraq war a diversion of resources, it's actually
fomenting more terrorism, Badnarik says.

"The fact that U.S. troops are being killed almost daily in Iraq
indicates that the occupation may be spawning a new generation of anti-
American terrorists," he said. "Instead of rooting out known terrorists
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bush is creating new ones in Iraq."

Though Bush seems to have forgotten about bin Laden, the American
people have not, Badnarik said.

Noting that in a recent USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll, 68 percent of those
surveyed said it was "extremely" or "very" important for bin Laden to
be captured or killed, he said: "Public support for destroying al-Qaeda
is far greater than support for the continued occupation of Iraq.

"On the third anniversary of the horrific September 11 attacks, the
president should summon the courage to admit his mistake and resolve to
correct it. The grieving families have waited too long for justice
already."