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Bin Laden Echoes Dem War Critics
Osama bin Laden is nothing if not a quick study - as his audiotaped message, replete with echoes of complaints from Iraq war critics on Capitol Hill, amply shows. In fact, the terror mastermind invoked one Democratic Party talking point after another in his bid to convince America that George Bush was leading to U.S. down the path to ultimate destruction. When Ted Kennedy, for instance, complained last year that Saddam Hussein's torture prisons had been reopened "under U.S. management," Osama was clearly listening. Warming to Kennedy's theme, the al Qaeda chief griped:
Story Continues Below "Jihad (holy war) is ongoing, thank God, despite all the oppressive measures adopted by the U.S. Army and its agents (which is) to a point where there is no difference between this criminality and Saddam's criminality . . . . As for torturing men, they have used burning chemical acids and drills on their joints. And when they give up on (interrogating) them, they sometimes use the drills on their heads until they die. Read, if you will, the reports of the horrors in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons." Bin Laden also borrowed a page from top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who announced after last July's train bombings in London that President Bush's "fight them there, not here" strategy plainly wasn't working. "The mujahideen (holy warriors), with God's grace, have managed repeatedly to penetrate all security measures adopted by the unjust allied countries," Osama proclaimed. "The proof of that is the explosions you have seen in the capitals of the European nations who are in this aggressive coalition." And it appears that bin Laden agrees with Sen. John Kerry's condemnations of President Bush's premature "Mission Accomplished" declaration, with the terror kingpin decrying the episode as the "fake, ridiculous show aboard the aircraft carrier." Bin Laden also paid homage to Delaware Democrat Joe Biden, who regularly turns up on TV to complain that security in Iraq is no better than when the U.S. invaded three years ago, and that troops privately confide in him that their predicament is perilous. "[The] war in Iraq is raging with no let-up and operations in Afghanistan are escalating in our favor," Bin Laden confirmed. "And Pentagon figures show the number of your dead and wounded is increasing not to mention the massive material losses, the destruction of the soldiers' morale there and the rise in cases of suicide among them." There was even a passing reference to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who never fails to qualify her "support" for the Iraq war by complaining about how badly Bush has mismanaged it. "I plan to speak about the repeated errors your President Bush has committed," Osama announced, early on in his message. And what Bin Laden speech would be complete without an allusion to the wisdom of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who last month predicted that the U.S. would lose the war. "Declaring this defeat is just a matter of time," the terror mastermind confirmed. "The sensible people realize that Bush does not have a plan to make his alleged victory in Iraq come true."
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