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...sign of how heated a topic outsourcing became during the U.S. election campaign that even Osama bin Laden got roped into the debate. Claiming that George W. Bush should have used American troops to hunt down bin Laden in Afghanistan instead of handing over the task to local warlords, John Kerry charged that Bush had "outsourced the job of capturing [bin Laden], just like he outsourced a lot of American jobs." Kerry hammered Bush for not doing enough to stop the flight of American jobs to countries like India, and assailed a U.S. law that encourages outsourcing by allowing companies...
...really born out of an inability to think of anything else,” Biagioli said of his getup, which also included a sign modeled after a Kansas City Republican rally where Bush supporters waved posters equating Kerry with Osama Bin Laden. “I like to think of my costume as a parody of the lunacy of some of these right-wing voters...
...Iraq plans on hold until Al Qaeda was defeated and America was made safe from terrorism. Sadly, he did not. And, because the president made Iraq a higher priority than the lessons of 2001, the United States is now scarcely any safer from terrorism, and Osama bin Laden is alive and well and releasing threatening videotapes; meanwhile, the American army is too tied up trying to create order in Iraq to be available if a terrorist emergency should indeed occur...
...from Operation Truth, a veterans' group, features a soldier talking about going to war in Iraq because of weapons that didn't exist, and it ends with him showing what's left of an arm that was blown off. Another Progress for America spot features pictures of Osama bin Laden and a band of fighters and asks, "Would you trust Kerry against these fanatic killers?" Message makers on both sides say that in a race this tight, it takes extreme measures to break through. "I think it is probably more aggressive and more negative than any campaign I've seen...
...thrust the U.S. into a struggle of historic magnitude. But as this presidential campaign careers toward a photo finish, the result has come to hinge on the ways the two men have diverged since that fateful day. For Bush, the attacks were the catalyst for war not just against Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network but also against any state that harbored, sponsored or supported terrorists. Even more ambitiously, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told TIME, Bush soon concluded that a "permanent peace is only going to come when you've dealt with the conditions that produced...