Word: ladens
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...said. Instead it was a matter of character. "I just don't feel that I really trust John Kerry to do what he says he's going to do." For Andrea Levin, 39, of Seattle, who voted for Al Gore in 2000, it was the return of Osama bin Laden, who released a videotape taunting Bush four days before Election Day, that made the difference. "When he made his presentation, looking all spiffed up, and condemned the President's foreign policy, I saw that as a clear sign that I should vote for Bush...
With the election hanging in the balance, the campaign awaited some improbable development to tip the scale. Re-enter Osama bin Laden. The irony could not be richer, the circle more complete. By reminding us of 9/11 and the war on terrorism, bin Laden invoked the only thing that could trump Iraq--and save the President. His chilling reappearance reminded us of our peril, put Iraq in perspective and played precisely to the President's success and strength--success and strength that he so squandered in Baghdad. Bin Laden was never one to remotely understand the American mind--he spectacularly...
...were to put him back in the race. The first debate--the one on foreign policy--would be the crucial one. Kerry was going to have to make two big, risky points: The war in Iraq was not the war on terrorism, and Saddam Hussein was not Osama bin Laden. Again and again, Klain coached Kerry: "He says Saddam? You say Osama...
Four days before the election, on his way to a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., Bush learned in his regular sunrise briefing that Osama bin Laden had delivered another video to al-Jazeera. It looked like the opportunity to ride the storyline the White House loved best--right through the final days. Whenever voters were reminded of terrorism, they had never failed to turn to the President. Kerry had been using the ghost of bin Laden for months, arguing that Bush had let him go. But now that the real thing was back on their TV screens, voters would focus...
WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING A BIN LADEN AFTER 9/11? Very difficult. I had to defend myself. The Attorney General of Switzerland decided to come one day uninvited. He took away cartons and cartons of documents. I understand that after Sept. 11 there was lots of suspicion and that everybody wanted to check everything. The investigation has finished, the file has been closed, and nothing was ever found...