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October 30, 2004
| Kerry on the OBL Video

From an Op-Ed in the New York Times (with all opinion and editorial content carefully removed, leaving just the facts) . Kerry’s remarks concerning the OBL video :

On Milwaukee television, … “He didn’t choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He outsourced the job.” Kerry continued …, “I am absolutely confident I have the ability to make America safer.”
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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.”


Posted by Alan Brain at October 30, 2004 09:50 AM | TrackBack
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It’s not that he changes his mind, it’s that he doesn’t even seem to remember ever believing different, and/or acts like we’re not going to notice.

Posted by: TBox [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2004 12:14 PM

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 9:33 a.m. ET June 21, 2004:

On the policy front, Clinton told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that he regretted failing to bring peace to the Israelis and Palestinians and that he wasn’t able to capture terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

This is the same guy who is now stumping for CAIRy, right?

Posted by: Hulegu Khan [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2004 12:44 PM

clinton only had 3 chances to get osama but im sure it was bushes fault that clinton did not get osama in the 90s

Posted by: navyvetagainstkerry [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2004 01:10 PM

I’m with you TBox. His ability to be totally and completely obvlious to what he has said even weeks before is a very disconcerting trait.

Posted by: Publius Rex [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2004 04:18 PM

Everytime Kerry uses the “outsource” canard his is pissing on American troops, this time the Special Forces.

No wonder the troops hate this psuedo-male so much.

Posted by: Darleen [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 30, 2004 04:39 PM

And this is the Kerry message to the troops:

“You botched the operation at Tora Bora and you botched the operations in Iraq.”

How in the world does he think he will be able to effectively lead the troops if he were to win the election?

What a sap!!!

Posted by: Pat M. [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 31, 2004 11:37 AM

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