I think George's handlers have finally found their Inner Truth. They have
finally come out openly to declare that hate is what drives them.
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Yours,
J.A. Terranson
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"An ill wind is stalking
while evil stars whir
and all the gold apples
go bad to the core"
S. Plath, Temper of Time
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:16 -0400
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Subject: ICYMI:Two Articles on Osama Politics
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
The Osama Litmus Test
By DAVID BROOKS
The New York Times
10/30/04
...
Bush's response yesterday to the video was exactly right. He said we would not be
intimidated. He tried to take the video out of the realm of crass politics by
mentioning Kerry by name and assuring the country that he was sure Kerry agreed with
him.
Kerry did say that we are all united in the fight against bin Laden, but he just
couldn't help himself. His first instinct was to get political.
On Milwaukee television, he used the video as an occasion to attack the president: "He
didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He outsourced the
job." Kerry continued with a little riff from his stump speech, "I am absolutely
confident I have the ability to make America safer."
..
But politics has shaped Kerry's approach to this whole issue. Back in December 2001,
when bin Laden was apparently hiding in Tora Bora, Kerry supported the strategy of
using Afghans to hunt him down. He told Larry King that our strategy "is having its
impact, and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the
proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively, and we
should continue to do it that way."
But then the political wind shifted, and Kerry recalculated. Now Kerry calls the
strategy he supported "outsourcing." When we rely on allies everywhere else around the
world, that's multilateral cooperation, but when Bush does it in Afghanistan, it's
"outsourcing." In Iraq, Kerry supports using local troops to chase insurgents, but in
Afghanistan he is in post hoc opposition.
This is why Kerry is not cleaning Bush's clock in this election. Many people are not
sure that he gets the fundamental moral confrontation. Many people are not sure he
feels it, or feels anything. Since he joined the Senate, what cause has he taken a
political risk for? Has he devoted himself selflessly and passionately to any movement
larger than himself?
We are revealed by what we hate. When it comes to Osama bin Laden, Kerry hasn't
revealed whatever it is that lies inside.
To View the Article Please Visit:
www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/opinion/30brooks.html
Politicizing The Bin Laden Tape
By William Kristol and Stephen F. Hayes
The Weekly Standard Online
10/29/04
..
The Bush campaign wisely avoided going political. But the Kerry campaign--in comments
from a top adviser and the candidate himself--did not.
Kerry gave what appear to be his first extemporaneous comments about the tape in a
previously scheduled satellite interview with Kathy Mykleby, a veteran anchor with
WISN TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
..
But Kerry finally couldn't resist politicizing the tape: "I am prepared to wage a more
effective war on terror than George Bush," he added.
Kerry's comment was unfortunate, and mild compared to those made later in the day by
his senior foreign policy adviser, Richard Holbrooke. In an appearance on CNN's Wolf
Blitzer Reports, Holbrooke, who has rejected the notion that we are in a "war on
terror," said this:
"The U.S. is determined to defeat al Qaeda and its allies and the war against their
use of terrorist tactics."
Holbrooke then went on the attack. "The tape shows that he's still around. We should
have captured him and we haven't. And the other thing it shows, illustrates a key
point which is that Senator Kerry in his relentless pursuit of terrorism is going to
be very aggressive. The tape doesn't show that but Senator Kerry's comments
continually--his experience shows that Osama bin Laden will draw no comfort from a
Kerry presidency."
..
Blitzer: "Are you concerned though that when Americans see this videotape--it'll be
all over the news media as you can imagine, not only today but in the days to
come--they will be reminded of what happened on 9/11 and they'll say, 'You know what,
I'd better vote for Bush because he's tougher in dealing with al Qaeda than Kerry.'"
Said Holbrooke: "I don't think so. I think it also raises a much deeper question: How
can this grotesque mass murderer be out there on worldwide television more than three
years after 9/11?"
Holbrooke punctuated the next sentence with exasperated pauses between his words.
"Why--haven't--we--captured--him--if the Bush administration was going to be so
effective in the war on terror? President Bush said in the debates that he's rolled up
75 percent of al Qaeda. Well, it sure doesn't sound like it now."
When Blitzer pointed out that Bush claimed to have captured or killed 75 percent of
"al Qaeda leadership," Holbrooke scoffed. "He did not say 'leadership' at all. And how
does he know? And as Secretary Rumsfeld himself said in that leaked memo, 'Aren't we
creating more terrorists than we're killing?'"
..
Is there any development in the war on terror, however grave, that the Kerry campaign
won't try to exploit for partisan advantage?
To View the Article Please Visit:
www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/856mpsdl.asp
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