The Spectacle of Bush ----On Quoting bin Laden

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

On Quoting bin Laden

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, September 6, 2006; 12:46 PM

The spectacle of the president of the United States extensively quoting Osama bin Laden to bolster his controversial policies during political season deserves notice, and reflection.

By all rights, President Bush ought to be embarrassed that the al Qaeda leader who masterminded the September 11 terrorist attacks remains at large almost five years later.

But Bush yesterday let bin Laden share his bulliest of pulpits, giving the mass murderer precisely the attention he craves and endorsing his extreme view that a Third World War is under way.

Here's the text of Bush's speech.

Mentioning bin Laden so much couldn't help but remind listeners of Bush's failure to capture or kill him. But the risk was easily offset by the fact that bin Laden remains the most effective bogeyman out there, and job one for the White House in the run-up to a potentially crippling mid-term election is to scare the hell out of people........

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Here's the text of Bush's speech. clickable at site

Mentioning bin Laden so much couldn't help but remind listeners of Bush's failure to capture or kill him. But the risk was easily offset by the fact that bin Laden remains the most effective bogeyman out there, and job one for the White House in the run-up to a potentially crippling mid-term election is to scare the hell out of people.

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1. Bush needs OBL like crops need the rain. . .

OBL has played Bush for a candy-ass pantywaist and useful idiot.

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2. I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist.....

But.....Bush mentions Bin Laden 17 times in a 44 minute speech. Everyone knows that Bin Laden is still at large, so maybe the Dems in congress start mentioning over and over how "If he's so concerned with Bin Laden, why don't we have him yet?".

Come October.....Surprise! We just got him! Here's a 90 minute edited video with soundtrack that we just happen to also have available at the same time that shows that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Leiberman, Santorum, et. al., with night vision goggles sneaking into the cave to get him!!

Like I said...I'm not usually into conspiracies, but this one has me thinking.....