Bush Quotes Bin Laden
Close your eyes and imagine the wingnut response if John Kerry had said something like this in a speech :
Some wonder whether Iraq is a central front in the war on terror. Among the terrorists, there is no debate. Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden: “This Third World War is raging” in Iraq. “The whole world is watching this war.” He says it will end in “victory and glory, or misery and humiliation.”The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened, or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.
Yeah, I know it’s a bit of a straw man argument, but let’s be serious here. If John Kerry had said the exact same thing last year, Republicans would have gone hoarse shouting “Kerry agrees with Bin Laden?!” and accused him of emboldening our enemies or other such nonsense.
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I agree completely – they would make the case that Kerry was undermining the war by spreading bin Laden’s message.
As a side note, I was tweaked just by the way Bush introduced the text – “Hear the words of Osama bin Laden”…reminiscent of “Hear, oh Israel!” and such, no?.
The mass is ended, go in peace.
Comment by OutFar — June 29, 2005 @ 8:58 pm
Hear the words of King George III!
“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
Listen to the words of Kaiser Wilhelm!
“He is Satan, you cannot imagine what a Satan he is”
.. on King Edward VII
Hear the words of Nikita Khrushchev
“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.”
Hear the words of Pol Pot!
“I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.”
“Hear the words of Jefferson Davis!
“All we ask is to be let alone.”
“Hear the words of Kim Il-Sung!
“Should any enemy attempt to infringe upon our country’s freedom and our people’s happy life, our People’s Armymen will fight to the last drop of their blood to defeat the enemy and defend the country and the people to the bitter end.”
“Hear the words of Joseph Stalin!
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
“Hear the words of Adolph Hitler!
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
“Hear the words of George Bush!
“I wish I wasn’t the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don’t.
Comment by Jude — June 29, 2005 @ 10:28 pm
Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden as Quoted by George W. Bush:b>
This Third World War is raging” in Iraq. “The whole world is watching this war.” He says it will end in “victory and glory, or misery and humiliation.”
That is very chilling indeed – and very telling
Postal mojo
Comment by Postal Mojo — June 30, 2005 @ 6:21 am