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(2005-01-31) -- Sen. John Kerry. D-MA, said today that history will judge Sunday's landmark election in Iraq as an "utter failure for George W. Bush if the U.S. cannot find a way to give al Qaeda and other disenfranchised so-called 'terror' groups a voice in Iraq's new government." "We use that word 'terrorist' to marginalize and demonize people whose way of expressing ideas is culturally different from ours," said Mr. Kerry. "But when a man takes up the scimitar to behead an innocent civilian, or straps on the exploding vest for a walk through the marketplace, he's just passionately stating...

The distinction between "red" and "blue" America came to mind again this past week, albeit from an unexpected direction and with unusually disturbing connotations. While reading Joshua Muravchik’s article, "Why the Democrats Keep Losing," in Commentary magazine, I came across a remarkable discussion of Osama bin Laden’s pre-election videotape. Perhaps because we have grown bored with his tendency to periodically reappear and spew the usual fundamentalist slop, bin Laden’s video didn’t receive a great deal of media attention at the time and wasn’t thought to have made much of a difference in the election outcome. The key part of the...

NEW YORK — John Kerry believes he lost to President Bush because of the video from Usama bin Laden that surfaced just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election. The Massachusetts senator told FOX News' senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera that he believes he lost because the tape may have scared the American electorate. Rivera spoke to Kerry on Thursday as the senator and a slew of other notable names — including wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman and comedian Chris Tucker — were in a holding room prior to the processional leading up to the formal...

It is not true that the Democrats didn't show sympathy toward fundamentalists during the campaign. They did -- just to the wrong ones. Islamic fundamentalists received a great deal of understanding and tolerance from the Democrats. John Kerry made a point of showing sensitivity to the Islamic community and for it earned numerous endorsements from Muslim Imams. Perhaps herein lies a new strategy for the Democrats: What if they treated Christians as respectfully as they treated Yasser Arafat? What if they extended to Christianity the tolerant understanding they extend to Islam? Maybe from time to time the Democrats could refer...

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto is showing no remorse for an on-air crack about Osama bin Laden wearing a Kerry button that infuriated John Kerry's campaign. Cavuto told viewers last week that his "thin-skinned" and "humorless critics seem to have selective memory." Recalling all the Democrats he's had on his show, Cavuto dismissed "threats from Democrats who now say they will boycott my show. I say, go ahead. Boycott me. Fair and balanced, I'll continue to invite you, and I'll let my viewers know when you decline -- each and every time you do."

But what else can we say about bin Laden's man in this election? That's right: Kerry is bin Laden's choice. No, the mass murderer didn't come right out and endorse the Massachusetts senator. But there's little doubt how he leans. According to a translation of the tape by the Middle East Media Research Institute, bin Laden warned that any state in the U.S. that "white thug" Bush carries on Tuesday will in effect have chosen to fight bin Laden's al-Qaida. "We will consider it an enemy to us," says MEMRI's translation, while "any state that will vote against Bush, it...

In his pre-election message, Osama bin Laden did his best to persuade the American people to cast their ballots for John Kerry. But the 9/11 mastermind's bizarre video may have exactly the opposite affect. In fact, says political guru Dick Morris in his New York Post column, bin Laden's tape "should seal this election for Bush." "Combined with recent statements by Putin and from officials in the Arafat compound," Morris says, "the terrorist’s intervention in our election should make one point quite clear: The terrorists are afraid of Bush and would much rather see him out of office."Even the increasing...

Washington The big news in Osama bin Laden's message to American voters was not his intercession in our election; that clumsy ploy was not as successful as his pre-election panicking of Spain's voters. Nor was the news his delight in the "pet goat" sequence in Michael Moore's Bush-bashing film, and his admonition that "Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you," echoing the central Kerry theme. Nor was it the frustrating fact that our Global Enemy No. 1 is alive and well and still at large. The unremarked news is that this mass murderer evidently seeks a...

That was the line I expected to hear at the end of the bin Laden video. Was it just me, or did the Osama bin Laden message sound eerily similar to the rhetoric we've been hearing from the Left for months? Makes one wonder who is copying whom. Think you can tell the difference between bin Laden and a Democrat? Test your skill... then click on the link to reveal the source. "Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you" - source "Bush misled this country" - source "Bush has misled the country" - source"Bush lied" is a standard...

KERRY CAMP OBJECTS TO 4:00pm FOX NEWS SEGMENT: ALAN COLMES: "It's not like he [Osama bin Laden] had a Kerry-Edward bumper sticker in his cave." NEIL CAVUTO: "But he's all but doing that, isn't he? I thought I saw a button." KERRY CAMP ASKS FOR RETRACTION, DOES NOT GET ONE… JOHN SASSO BLOWS UP AT FOX PRODUCER ON PLANE: "Is that the one? Is that her? I want her off the plane tomorrow. I'm not kidding." COMM. DIR. STEPHANIE CUTTER BACKTRACKS: "He [Sasso] was wrong to say that. We jumped all over him for it."

October 30, 2004 -- CONGRATULATIONS, Michael Moore — America's worst enemy and one of the world's most evil men is a big fan of yours. The most startling moment on the Osama bin Laden videotape shown yesterday was his description of the morning of 9/11, which is certainly derived — albeit in garbled form — from a viewing of Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." "It never occurred to us that he, the commander in chief of the country, would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone, because he thought listening to a child discussing her goats was...

In a remarkable geopolitical meeting of minds, the pre-election address of top global terrorist Osama bin Laden shows he has adopted many of the Democratic Party's talking points. Transcripts of the address released late Friday reveal such stunning similarities that it's obvious bin Laden has been following the U.S. presidential race very closely - and he agrees on issue after issue with domestic critics of the Bush administration. Story Continues Below • Dem Talking Point No. 1: BUSH STOLE THE 2000 ELECTION In bin Laden's version, President George H. W. Bush began planning to steal the 2000 election years in...

Osama bin Laden Endorses John Kerry By Henry Makow Ph.D. October 30, 2004 On Friday, terrorist bogeyman Osama Bin Laden released a video that successfully ridiculed George W. Bush. Coming just four days before the Presidential election, that's awfully suspicious. Bin Laden implied that he could work with John Kerry. Furthermore he exposed himself as a CIA / MI-6 Illuminati asset by taking responsibility for 9-11 and praising Mohamed Atta as the "overall commander." I am confining myself to the excerpts cited by Al Jazeera, which broadcast the Bin Laden video. Here is how Bin Laden ridicules Bush: "It never...

Al Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden paid tribute to leading Kerry supporter, conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday, by invoking a scene from his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" to attack President Bush. In his first appearance on video in more than a year, the delusional terrorist leader described the segment in Moore's film where the president continued to read the children's book "My Pet Goat" to a Florida elementary school class after he got word that America was under attack. "It appeared to Bush," said bin Laden, "that a little girl’s talk about her goat and its butting was more important...

Your a voter, any voter, representing any party. What are the chances you are not familiar with bin Laden? I made the effort/wasted my time checking the two most widely recognized liberal media publications and found numerous stories this week alone concerning bin Laden. Many discuss his endorsement of Kerry. From the first light of the first campaign day Kerry has whined about the fact that bin Laden continues to run free. In his opinion, Saddam was dessert and bin Laden was the main course. He has maintained that Bush's "outsourcing" of the capture of our number one terrorist was...

Paraphrasing: Good for Bush. Bin Laden wants to effect the election but he couldn't send a bomb like in Spain. He virtually quotes Michael Moore's movie. How the left is helping UBL plot against America. Bin Laden obviously wants Kerry elected because of his personal attacks on Bush. That helps Bush. Kerry had the election in hand two weeks ago, jumped on the explosives thing, and made Iraq and terror "the" issues and that means a Bush victory. Clinton went on Primetime Live, mentioned Kerry once, cuz he wanted to suck the air out of the election and hurt Kerry....

Armed group claims to have Iraq explosives - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Oct. 28, 2004 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An armed group claimed in a video Thursday to have obtained a large amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot facility in Iraq (news - web sites) and threatened to use them against foreign troops. A group calling itself Al-Islam's Army Brigades, Al-Karar Brigade, said it had coordinated with officers and soldiers of "the American intelligence"...

Insurgent Abu Jalal: 'We've got to work to change the election, and we've done so. With our strikes, we've dragged Bush into the mud'...

Osama bin Laden’s chosen media outlet, al-Jazeera – which regularly refers to suicide bombers as “martyrs” and may have direct ties to terrorism – now hopes to refer to John Kerry as “Mr. President.” The pro-terror Mideastern network referred to John Kerry as “a popular mainstream Democrat with liberal tendencies” and noted the junior senator from Massachusetts “has suggested Bush's handling of [Iraq] is ‘f****ed up.’” Although the National Journal named Kerry the Senate’s most liberal member, al-Jazeera claimed “Kerry is well placed politically between his party's radical left and arch conservatives.” (“Arch-conservative” Democrats?) After all, the Democratic Party gave...

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTS October 18, 2004 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Introduction John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, is being given money by an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian). The KLA is currently smuggling weapons into Kosovo as part of a plot to attack American and other UN peacekeepers, should the UN Security Counsel refuse their demand for Kosovo's secession from Serbia and Montenegro. About the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK) In order to fully understand the significance of John Kerry's involvement with the KLA it is first necessary to...

Another "forgein leader" for Kerry. God help us if he's elected. Ansar al-Sunnah Army Congratulates Tawhid wal-Jihad, Refers to Usama Bin Laden as "Our Shaykh" Globalterroralert.com (10/21/04): The Ansar al-Sunnah Army in Iraq has issued two new statements, including congratulating Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement on being designated by the White House as a terrorist organization. Referring to Usama Bin Laden as "our Shaykh", Ansar Sunnah boasted that John Kerry's recent criticisms of President Bush's efforts in the war on terror have "increased the joy in our hearts."

Just something you should ask any undecided voter you may run in to.......

President Vladimir Putin on Monday made his strongest endorsement yet for his friend U.S. President George W. Bush, saying "international terrorism" will claim victory over the international antiterrorism coalition if Bush loses. "I believe that the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at the coalition as at President Bush personally," Putin said. "The goal of international terrorism is to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term." "If they achieve that goal, then they will of course celebrate it as a victory ... over America and, to a certain extent, over the forces of...

"Russian President Vladimir Putin says terrorist attacks in Iraq are aimed at preventing the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush and that a Bush defeat 'could lead to the spread of terrorism to other parts of the world,' " CNN reports: "International terrorists have set as their goal inflicting the maximum damage to Bush, to prevent his election to a second term. "If they succeed in doing that, they will celebrate a victory over America and over the entire anti-terror coalition," Putin said. "In that case, this would give an additional impulse to international terrorists and to their activities,...

Read a newspaper, watch television, or listen to the radio this fall, and the story from Iraq is the violence sweeping the country. Insurgents have stepped up their attacks, you'll hear. More and more U.S. service members are being killed and wounded every month. The international media is fleeing, and those willing to stay behind rarely venture out from their shelter in the Palestine Hotel. But even as these reports about the violence grow ever more strident, what's missing is any discussion about why attacks are increasing. The "why" is obvious to those of us over here facing the danger...

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been given to Kerry from the pro-Iranian lobby......

U.S President George Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry will face off in their second election debate tomorrow night. But for Salim Mansur the first debate last week was enough. He's a columnist and a political scientist at the University of Western Ontario in London. On Commentary, he says a Kerry election win would spell victory for terror. Real Audio link: Salim Mansur Audio Transcript Salim Mansur: Once we get past style and engage in content analysis of last Thursday's presidential debate between George Bush and John Kerry, it becomes clear Americans will be voting on distinct alternatives...

Cockroaches Oct. 8, 2004 THEY WANT TO TAKE BUSH DOWN M. Zuhdi Jasser Phoenix physician Yesterday's tragic bombings and murders in the Sinai demand that we more closely reflect upon the warped motivations of our enemies especially as we enter our elections. An Egyptian hotel is an unfortunately obvious target. Many analysts have cited the primary short-term goal of al-Qaida being the removal of the American and western presence from Iraq. Many correctly note that the removal of Saddam and the installation of democracy in Iraq and possibly in the greater Middle East brings with it an antidote to the...

Do the bad guys -- the terrorists in their Afghan caves and Iraqi redoubts -- want George Bush defeated in this election? Bush critics, among them the editors of the New York Times, have worked themselves into a lather over the mere suggestion that this might be so. A front-page "analysis" in The Post quoted several Republican variations of this theme -- such as Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage saying that the terrorists in Iraq "are trying to influence the election against President Bush" -- then noted that "[s]uch accusations . . . surfaced in the modern era during...

2004-10-01) -- In a tape aired on Al-Jazeera TV, Usama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, thanked Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry for the "great ideas he shared during last night's debate." On the tape, still under analysis by the CIA, Mr. al-Zawahiri notes that Mr. Kerry's debate remarks were a "terrific brainstorming session for our associates who seek targets of opportunity to advance the cause of our peaceful religion." Mr. Zawahiri said he appreciated the "virtual invitation" implied in the following statements by Mr. Kerry: -- "The president hasn't put one nickel - not one nickel - into...

In light of John Kerry's puzzling insistence on a go-it-alone approach to North Korea in Thursday night's debate, I thought I'd make a little list. Admittedly, I'm doing much of this from memory, but there seems to be a certain consistency . . . 1. The North Vietnamese, during the Vietnam War, compared Ho Chi Minh to George Washington, argued that their war was one of national liberation, accused US troops of regularly committing war crimes and atrocities, called on Nixon to end the war immediately, argued that the people of South Vietnam would be happy to accept communism, and...

This has to be one of the first ever presidential debates that distinctly showed the difference between liberal socialist international and domestic policy versus that of conservative constitutional republican policy. I think it became clearer that after 8 years of swatting at flies, it was the policy of this administration to run the ball up the gut of the radical Islamic world, put it on their end of the field and finally show that we are not going to tolerate their fear, hate and killing. We now sit in their own back yard, and even after we leave, Iraq is...

The insurgents in Iraq have increased their activity to influence the US Presidential election. The terrorists in Iraq have spoken, and they prefer Kerry. His flip flopping on Iraq policy, his promise to cut and run by removing as many troops as possible in his first year in office has got them super motivated. Yes indeed, they are motivated, motivated to go KILL, kill American soldiers, kill Iraqis and kill foreignors trying to help rebuild that country. Yes siree, once again Kerry is getting serviceman killed in another US war by flapping his yap. It's a shame more Americans can't...

The biggest unknown factor in the presidential campaign is whether there will be a major domestic terrorist incident before Election Day. The key question is not just whether al-Qaeda will seek to influence U.S. voting, as it did in Spain last March by detonating 10 bombs on three crowded Madrid commuter trains and killing almost 200 people a few days before national elections. It is al-Qaeda's mind-set: Do its leaders see their task as easier with President Bush or John Kerry in the White House? Or, from its warped perspective, is there no difference between the two men? If al-Qaeda...

Kerry sets the record straight Charles A. Beers JohnKerry.com, September 23, 2004 The war in Iraq is President Bush's signature failure. To reduce the damage the war has caused him, Bush and his campaign operatives have spent the last six months attacking and distorting John Kerry's position on Iraq and military service. But yesterday, in a powerful speech in New York, Kerry set the record straight. John Kerry laid out a plan to end Bush's irrational, deceptive and unilateral policy in Iraq, and pursue a policy of international cooperation to end the worsening rebellion and rebuild Iraq -- and bring...

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage alleged Friday that insurgents have stepped up their deadly assaults in Iraq because they want to "influence the election against President Bush," a statement that drew a sharp condemnation from the campaign of Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry. It is apparently the first time that a Bush administration official has linked the escalating violence in Iraq to an effort by insurgents to help defeat Bush in November. More than 200 Iraqis have died since last weekend, and American troops also have been dying at a greater rate this month than...

US President George W. Bush's campaign chief has accused Democratic White House challenger John Kerry of playing into terrorists' hands by being pessimistic on Iraq. "John Kerry's pessimism, shifting positions and lack of resolve will not win the fight against the terrorists. His campaign has demonstrated again that it has nothing to offer but attacks on the president's agenda for creating a safer world," Ken Mehlman said in a statement out Saturday. "On the eve of (Iraqi) Prime Minister (Iyad) Allawi's visit to the United States, John Kerry's military adviser is preaching defeat and suggesting retreat in Iraq. Such a...

The excitement is palpable. You can almost feel it in the air. The dictators of the Arab world just can’t wait for George W. Bush to lose the US presidential election in November. Gripped with fear as they watch Bush’s democratic experiment in Iraq take shape, the tyrants and despots of the Middle East are pinning their hopes on Democratic challenger John Kerry to prevail. After all, the last thing they want to see is a second-term Bush determined to reform the region, a development that would threaten their grip on power and stymie their efforts to obtain more lethal...

We've all seen the silly dims who protest at Bush speaking engagements. Some dims dress in pinstriped suits and cocktail dresses and sip from plastic wine glasses to try to portray the Republican party as rich fat cats. Has anyone ever see Protest Warriors or similar groups dress as Mullahs with "Mullahs for Kerry" signs at a sKerry/leftwards event? Maybe wear some (not TOO realistic) bomb belts and a toy Kalishnakov rifle. That could be pretty amusing.

The campaign of Senator John F. Kerry appears to have imploded. With almost two months left before the presidential election on Nov. 2, U.S. President George W. Bush is poised to win an election in which, given his extraordinary record of domestic and international failure, he should certainly have been defeated. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the American media, Kerry stands on the brink of failure not because of the Republican attacks against him, but because of his own incomprehensible strategic blunders. This is not to say that the spectacularly dishonest television campaign falsely impugning Kerry's Vietnam War record -...

At a John Kerry campaign stop in Ohio last month, children in Bush-Cheney T-shirts greeted the Democrat by passing out fliers that read: "If you were Osama, who would you want to win the election?" A week earlier in Kentucky, bumper stickers appeared in Louisville saying, "Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine."Jack Richardson IV, chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, was smitten with the sticker's anti-Kerry sentiment."Is there anybody that can honestly say bin Laden wouldn't prefer Kerry over Bush?" Richardson asked, adding that Kerry's U.S. Senate voting record wasn't sufficiently tough on terror. "If I was in...

More than once, John Kerry has told voters that a few unnamed foreign leaders prefer him to George W. Bush as the President of the United States. Even John Edwards has repeated the foreign endorsement theme. Recently, Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Carl Levin returned from Europe telling America that unnamed European leaders (presumably the French and Germans) stand ready to put their full weight behind our efforts in Iraq only if John Kerry resides in the White House. It is puzzling that Democrats think Americans should be impressed that anti-American foreign leaders support Kerry. As dubious as Kerry's claims...

From Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group claiming affiliation with Al Qaeda, "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections (sic)."

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is waiting out the U.S. presidential election in the hopes that George W. Bush will be voted out of office, the head of Israel's military intelligence said. Faced with growing internal unrest in the PA and among members of his Fatah faction, Arafat has nevertheless refused to implement meaningful security reforms as demanded by Egypt and the Quartet - the U.S., European Union, United Nations, and Russia. In remarks over the weekend, Arafat said there was no crisis in the PA. He said Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who tried to resign but...

Kerry's true "Band of Brothers" are not his fellow Vietnam veterans. They are the those who would weaken America... the internationalists... the terrorists who would blame us for 'intervening.' The true friends of Kerry are all of those who want us to feel guilty for the fact that America is an exceptional nation, filled with individuals whose freedoms enable us to rise constantly higher.

IDF Military Intelligence chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi said Sunday that Arafat is biding his time until November, in hopes that U.S. President George W. Bush will lose his bid for re-election and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government will fall by then, Army Radio reported.

It's been called everything from the CNN of the Arab world toTaliban TV. Next week, though, the controversial Al-Jazeera network will for the first time at a political convention take its place alongside other major networks in a skybox, providing live coverage of the Democratic National Convention from the FleetCenter. Critics have charged that the Qatar-based network is a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden because it has aired several unedited videos of the terrorist leader that some say could be spreading deadly messages to al-Qaeda sleeper cells. Adding fuel to the anti-American criticism is the network's airing of gruesome beheadings...

The latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll shows that people overwhelmingly believe Bush would be better than John Kerry at handling the threat of terrorism (56%-38%). In what amounts to proof that some people have no business voting, the same poll shows Kerry with a slight overall lead (48-46%). On the one hand gay marriage legislation might get signed into law. But on the other hand, terrorists may start flying planes into our buildings again. Tough choice. But it isn’t too confusing as to why most people have less faith in Kerry’s ability to handle the threat of terrorism. (What is confusing...

For just a moment, forget that Sen. John Kerry has demonstrated against our nation, that he has slammed the conduct of the men who fought in Vietnam, that he has a 26-year anti-American record, that he has routinely voted against the needs of the military, that he has worked to eviscerate the intelligence agencies, that he will significantly raise your taxes, that he always takes at least two sides on all issues, that he is considered by National Journal as the most liberal senator, and that his running mate is the fourth-most liberal senator. Forget that George W. Bush is...