Bush admits bin Laden tape helped him beat Kerry

[bananas]

http://drudgereport.com/flash3wsa.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FEB 27, 2006 18:01:23 ET XXXXX

BUSH NOW ADMITS BIN LADEN HELPED HIM BEAT JOHN KERRY

**Exclusive**

President Bush now says his 2004 victory over Sen. John Kerry, who is mulling a comeback in 2008, was inadvertently aided by al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

And Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who steadfastly refused to defend Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth when he ran Bush’s campaign, now calls them “heroes” who played a crucial role in vanquishing Kerry.

Bill Sammon, Senior White House Correspondent for the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, scores another exclusive for Tuesday editions with explosive excerpts from his new book, STRATEGERY. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980028/

For the first time, the president says he was helped by bin Laden, who put out a videotaped diatribe against Bush the Friday before the 2004 election.

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[LaurenG]

1. How repugnant

I am about to give up on the US. (Not really, but I feel the need to throw a fit over this crap.) ARRRGGHH. x(

[rfranklin]

2. Gee, how coincidentally convenient...

Amazing how bin Laden bails out Bush time after time, isn't it?

[clyro]

4. convenient indeed

As the terror alert regression paper showed quite well, the visibility of danger produces increased support for the leader. Bin Laden is clearly the necessary bogeyman to continue justification for this 'terror war'...

[newyawker99]

17. Hi clyro!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[abluelady]

14. Wonder How Often Bush bails out bin Laden?

These two men seem co-dependent upon each other don't they. As soon as one goes, you can be assured the other will. Which one will be the first???

[liberal N proud]

3. inadvertently ?

inadvertently my ass!

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. We have the same posteriors.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Keep going Numbnuts. Kenneth Blackwell and game-playing with voters

and machines in Ohio definitely helped you appear to win in 2004.

[clyro]

8. KABOOM!

"and machines in Ohio definitely helped you appear to win in 2004"

nice post :)

[dogday]

7. More like Bin Laden helped Bush win

not Kerry to lose, but Bush to win... that is what should be said.....

[CJCRANE]

9. If you get a chance

compare the transcripts of the tape on CNN and al-Jazeera.

The CNN transcript is censored/edited. The full transcript on al-Jazeera has extra paragraphs about Bushco's connections with Middle-East dictators and also how B*sh has helped al-Qaeda with his extreme policies.

On edit: As far as I recall, the tape was not only censored but it's release was held back until closer to the election at the request of the WH/State Dept.

[maxrandb]

10. So, Bin Laden is now a Republican Party Pioneer?

That's just "frickin" great. Talk about stuff that makes your hair hurt!

The Repubs ought to name him an honorary member of the 2004 Congress, just like they did for Rush in 1994.

Somewhere in there is a great campaign ad. "Bush: Brought to you by Bin Laden".

and in the Freakers mind...We're the "terrist"

I think I have to go puke...after I weep for my country.

[maxrandb]

11. Yes! Fear is a great motivator

I want to know when the America I knew turned into a bunch of "pussies afraid of their own shadows"

I just can't get my arms around the logic. If I were truly scared, the last person in the world I would vote for is *. You know deep down in your heart that he's the kind of guy that would turn tail and run in a bar fight.

[Skidmore]

12. Never has one individual had so much handed

to him on silver platters as * and still managed to turn it all to crap. Even his "enemy" helps him out and he still turns gold into crap.

[izzie]

13. Those two guys need each other.

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[leesa]

15. That's why they made it, isn't it?

[fed-up]

16. should read: Bush admits CIA/Bin Laden helped him beat John Kerry n/t

[Cleita]

18. I think it was more the lack of tape in the voting machines

in Ohio that did it. However, if Bush and bin Laden are in cahoots, maybe trotting out that tape at the right moment didn't hurt.