Posted on 04/23/2006 6:08:49 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Kerry calls for Rumsfeld's resignation after new 'Bin Laden' tape
Washington - US Senator John Kerry on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign following the airing of a new recording attributed to fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden slipped past US troops from his hideout in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan in late 2001 because Rumsfeld had not committed enough troops to finding him, Kerry, the Democratic Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election, told ABC television.
The failure to catch the al-Qaeda head on that occasion was one of the biggest catastrophes in the war against terrorism, Kerry added.
The US military says it has no information on the exact whereabouts of bin Laden, but suspects he is hiding somewhere along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In the voice recording aired Sunday by pan-Arab channel al- Jazeera, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said that the West was waging a crusade against Islam, which their boycott of Hamas and their intervention in Sudan proved.
'Their [the West's] boycott of Hamas confirmed that it is a crusade Zionist war against Muslims,' bin Laden said.
The recording was the first appearance of bin Laden in the Arab media since al-Jazeera aired a voice recording on January 19 in which the al-Qaeda leader offered the West an armistice.
In Sunday's recording, bin Laden said that the rejection by the West of his armistice was proof that the West opposed dialogue. The West was insisting on continuing a crusade war against 'our nation.'
I call for Kerry's resignation.
Traitor kerry just can't shut up -- PING
Well, Bin Laden called for Bush's resignation, but I didn't notice that one happening either.
Obviously it doesn't trouble Kerry that he started his career in politics having the same talking points as the North Vietnamese, and will end it being the advocate for Bin Laden.
Can't this guy simply retire into rich irrelevance, rather than talk stoopid (and be quoted!) every day on his way there?
He is SUCH a buffoon.
Kerry thought it was okay for the CIA employee to lead secret information to the press. Maybe kerry should resign.
i agree. hes a nut job.
:-)
Kerry can't resign until he's been impeached.
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/bin-laden-changes-subject.html
Since Osamma's message hints at Al Queda defeat, John "Surrender Now" Kerry's timing is just right?
"The West was insisting on continuing a crusade war against 'our nation.'"
Funny, I thought that Bin Laden was intent on continuing the Ottoman 150-year invasion against "my nation". Perhaps I am confused, and he's repeating the Moorish invasion. Then again, perhaps Bin Laden is repeating the Islamic invasions into Balkins... Gosh, I could be sooo wrong that Bin Laden is simply the latest in a long line of Islamic invaders into the Western world.
The dead don't give audio tapes.
Well, recall that Bin Laden released a video just prior to our November 04 elections expressing his desire to have Kerry be the President (because he is a weakling on terrorism); its only fair the kerry return the favor and support Bin Laden. This american would expect nothing less from Senator Kerry, the traitor.
Jean-Fraud Kerry's been listening to a BEST OF tape...his friend Binny is dead.
He can't resign, he'd have to find a real job.
The comedy about Kerry's statement is that he NEVER would have caught OBL because he was saying the War On Terror was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time". He'd still be waiting for the French to tell him what to do.
And to think 48% of voters wanted this guy in the White House. The nation is still walking a tightrope, with about 48% ready to commit national suicide.
So, the fool is OK that Clinton let Bin Laden go when he was already in captivity, but wants Rumsfeld to resign now? This guy seriously needs to shut his pie hole.
Oh great, more drivel from this idiot leftist. No thanks - I've had enough.
I think Kerry should call for Bill Clinton's resignation since Bill failed on several occasions to take Bin Laden into custody. But, since Bill is no longer in office, Hillary's resignation will suffice.
let kerry go and catch binny!
rumsfeld is in the middle of allocating enough resources to get optimum results. he is trimming and streamlining everything. everyone is already squaking about cost of iraq and are afraid of upcoming expenditures / investents in peace / iran.
to kerry it doesnt matter what bush and rumsfeld do or say as it will always be wrong. poor fool is a bitch of a wife!
Kerry can play hide and go f**k himself.
" By May of 1996 the Sudanese had decided to get rid of bin Laden because he was becoming a problem there as well. They called the Clinton administration one last time and said, 'If you don't want him to go to Saudi Arabia, we're prepared to hand him over to you guys directly. And the Clinton administration's response to that was 'We don't have enough legal evidence against him." --Mansoor Ijaz
Ijaz, a major Clinton financial supporter brokered the 1996 bin Laden agreement
Perfect!
Am I the only one who thinks of the Cardiff Giant when Kerry is mentioned? I am odd, and have loose associations, but he reminds me of it. Does he have any idea how idiotic he appears? (I know he doesn't, but what is wrong with him?)
Kerry is running for President and we are going to have to put up with listening to this piece of dung for the next two years. Not a happy thought.
Is there any way we could give Massachusetts to Mexico? Canada? The Netherlands? Hell : Russia?
Kerry is slipping into Gorepolar disorder.
"What makes them funny is Margaret Dumont, the heavyset grande dame who lumbers through the pictures like a, well, hot-air balloon." http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_20_56/ai_n13629088/pg_2 I thought of M Dumont at the same time as Rob Long. He really is a perfect foil (Kerry). I pity Mrs heinz.
I bet Osama has a framed photo of Kerry in his cave. (just like the one in the Hanoi War Museum)
Thank you. I laughed like a madman seeing the pictures of Little Lord Fauntleroy. What has happened to this country that people like him are elected?
Kerry and the rest of the Dims really don't care about all the issues they complain about on a daily basis. They are just tired of being in the minority. They want back in power so they can pass their agenda. You know, the agenda they don't talk about. The agenda that will be so destructive to our nation like nothing we have seen before.
Sounds like Kerry wants to crank up the war effort. A hawk among hawks, out-hawking Hillary.
Kerry really should do something about his crack problem.
It's now official. Osama bin Laden is John Kerry's foreign affairs advisor. I knew it all along!
He doesn't need a job. He is already a highly paid gigilo..........
And it rhymes, making it easier for him to remember.
And just the right nuance.
I'll see your call for Kerry's resignation, and raise you three calls for the resignation of Kennedy, Schumer, and Feinstein!
Kerry was against bin Laden BEFORE he was for bin Laden.
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