Excerpt:
The ad starts with Bush and his September
14, 2001, bullhorn. This time, though, it's a Kerry commercial
that reminds swing-state Americans of Bush's
blood vowprecisely three years agothat "the people who
knocked down these buildings" would "hear
all of us soon." The cowboy soundbites that we would "smoke 'em out"
track across the screen with any network's
footage of the "wanted dead or alive" culprits: Osama bin Laden,
Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar.
Then the camera moves on to anchors reporting
that bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora, but that U.S.
commanders were allowing mercenary Pashtuns
to lead the fighting and Pakistanis to seal the backside border.
Next, news headlines blare that Special
Forces and key CIA operatives were prematurely pulled out of
Afghanistan to prepare for the war on Iraq.
The last visual is of Bush momentarily forced at a March 2002
press conference to discuss bin Laden:
"I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with ya."
It makes all the sense in the world that
the Bush conventionwith a hundred references in major speeches
to terror and 69 to Iraq or Husseinmentioned
Osama just once, and then only to blame him on Bill Clinton.
What makes no sense is that bin Laden was
never mentioned in Kerry's Boston show.
I think this writer heard Part
2 of BCR Show 54. (Don't open this near co-workers or with
children nearby)