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July 02, 2004
| Bush Ad: Kerry "doesn't know the enemy."

Responding to a Kerry ad (which was a response to a Progress for America ad), the Bush campaign asks “How can John Kerry win a war if he doesn’t know the enemy?”

Kerry’s ad, which never mentioned Bush, claimed the Massachusetts senator was the “author of a strategy to win the war on terror,” a reference to his 1997 book, “The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America’s Security.”

But Bush’s ad argues that Kerry’s book doesn’t relate to terrorism but rather to fighting global crime, such as “Japanese yakuza” gangsters. The ad says that the book “never mentions al-Qaida,” “says nothing about Osama bin Laden,” and “calls Yasser Arafat a ‘statesman.’”

“The New Republic says Kerry’s plan ‘misses the mark.’ And Kerry’s focus? Global crime, not terrorism,” the ad says.

Chad Clanton, a Kerry campaign spokesman, said Bush is the one who “doesn’t understand the depth and breadth of the terrorism challenges we face.”



Posted by Nathan Hamm at July 2, 2004 01:19 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Someone call Michael Moore, maybe he can do a sequel about how the Yakuza is really behind Al Qaeda and the Bush administration. Those hijackers at some point no doubt drove Japanese cars… and George Bush (41) threw up in the Japanese PM’s lap… See, a connection!!

Posted by: kh at July 2, 2004 01:30 PM

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