Word: ladens
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...sobering assessment of the prospects for stability and democracy in Iraq that contradicted the rosy picture painted by the White House. And the administration wasn’t any happier about Imperial Hubris, the book published anonymously by Michael Scheuer, the CIA official in charge of tracking Osama bin Laden from 1996 to 1999. Scheuer’s book, green-lighted by agency higher-ups, sharply criticized the war in Iraq, arguing that it had played right into bin Laden’s hand...
...really: if you need to leave the country, Paris beats Vancouver any day). Shockingly, a bare majority of us voted for George W. Bush—a better candidate with a clearer message who led a stronger campaign, a wartime president re-elected four days after Osama bin Laden released a tape that frightened the hell out of millions of people. No good reason to hate this country. And there are few moments in history when rage actually accomplished anything productive...
...Palm Beach, Fla. Shrum, who cannot type, dictated a brief statement to Josh Gottheimer, one of the campaign's young speechwriters, which they showed to the candidate in the limo on the way to the airport. Kerry deleted only one sentence, the first one, which referred to how bin Laden had castigated both him and the President...
...response to this tape from Osama bin Laden, let me make it clear, crystal clear," Kerry said when he delivered the statement at the airport. "As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They are barbarians...
...find what they needed to put their indignation on speed dial. The Bush campaign's rapid-response team discovered remarks Kerry had made to a local Wisconsin TV station during those interviews by satellite, reiterating the criticism he had been making for months that Bush had let bin Laden slip away at Tora Bora. The Bushies cried foul and had Bush do so in his last speech of the day. "It's the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking," said Bush. "It is especially shameful in the light of a new tape from America's enemy." But did Americans agree...