Word: osama
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...Canada (and 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...
...those debates 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...
...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...
...Says Saddam? You Say Osama...