Bush: Osama Bin Laden aided my reelection

[Kandahar]

The more accurate wording for the title of this thread would've been, "12 years of 2 Democrat presidents appeasing our enemies, doing nothing about foreign threats like Saddam, tying the hands of our security agencies, not responding to years and years of constant Al Queda attacks on our troops aided Bush's re-election."

Except that's not what Bush claims aided his reelection. No, it was that videotape released just before the election according to the president.

OSAMA: "Death to infidels! Death to America! More terror attacks coming soon!"
VOICE-OVER: "I'm George W Bush, and I approved this message."

 

[scottyz]

And what does the ideology have to do with whether we'll win? This sounds like a religious conviction that we'll prevail simply because our cause is just (most communists and Islamists probably believe the same thing).

I agree that we're in a much better position than the USSR ever was in Afghanistan...but that still doesn't mean that we'll win, and it certainly doesn't mean that we'll win because of our ideology.

I don't believe middle easterners make a distinction between invading a country for imperialist reasons and invading to spread "Democracy". I think either way they see it as a western nation of foreigners invading their country and taking over their Government without their input.

 

[scottyz]

Except that's not what Bush claims aided his reelection. No, it was that videotape released just before the election according to the president.

OSAMA: "Death to infidels! Death to America! More terror attacks coming soon!"
VOICE-OVER: "I'm George W Bush, and I approved this message."

I think that card is losing its effectiveness. I think initially when Bush mentioned 9/11 a gazillion times in every speech it did work and scared the American people the way he wanted. Now that people are seeing he actually makes terrorism worse and has never caught Bin Laden.. it has become a joke.

 

[Navy Pride]

I think that card is losing its effectiveness. I think initially when Bush mentioned 9/11 a gazillion times in every speech it did work and scared the American people the way he wanted. Now that people are seeing he actually makes terrorism worse and has never caught Bin Laden.. it has become a joke.

Is that so....Did it scare you?:roll:

 

[JOHNYJ]

We are not Russia, and we took both Afghanstan and Iraq in a matter of weeks, not to mention our goals are not imperialism, but democracy, and this is why we will win.

Took,took what How many times has this war been over.Using WWII as an example this war is not won or over.You cannot impose democracy on peole who are incapable of running or understanding it.