Thursday, September 9, 2004

This is the stuff that makes me soooooo angry with BushCo.- it' as if they don't give a shit at all about the country, just those things that that will get them more power. Are we really being led by a group of people who would let countless Americans die, just so their friends can get a tax cut? Count Zawahiri out of the "three-quarters captured or killed". If so many of Al-Qaida's "key members and associates" have been captured or killed, making us all safer, as George W. Bush claims, then why is Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, on my TV right now? Zawahiri has surfaced today in a new videotape, taunting America and claiming that al-Qaida has U.S. troops "on the run" in Afghanistan. It's unknown when the tape was shot -- but the video is a reminder that Zawahiri, like his boss OBL, is still at large. This is an obvious point the Bush administration would prefer we all ignore -- at the Republican convention in New York last week, bin Laden was the real elephant in the room. Rather than admit that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks had eluded capture, Bush trotted out the new statistic meant to gloss it all over: "More than three quarters al Qaeda's key members and associates have been detained or killed," he said in his convention speech. Bush has repeated this stat on the stump. But there's a problem: It is almost certainly not true. [Salon.com] 7:37:36 PM     leave/read comments []