--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 7/1/06 10:44:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
>  
>  
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) 
> ,  MDixon6569@,  MDi
> <snip>
> And for those that believe Osama  is 
> > playing Bush and the republicans like a flute, watch for him to 
do  
> > something to try to influence the election like he did a couple 
of  
> > weeks before the last one.
> 
> You appear to be acknowledging that  bin Laden's tape
> before the 2004 election was intended to  influence
> folks to vote for Bush.
> 
> Good for you. At the time, the  right wing generally 
> went around proclaiming that bin Laden wanted  folks
> to vote for Kerry, in an attempt to get people to vote
> for  Bush.
> 
> Bin Laden knew precisely what he was  doing.
> 
> I'm not prepared to say Osama was wanting Bush elected.  However 
> Osama was trying to divide and conquer. I seem to remember him 
> saying  something about any state or city that didn't support Bush 
> would be spared  attacks by Al Qaeda. This sounded like an attempt 
> to get people to vote against  Bush for their own safety and 
> whether it backfired or not and whether he  intended it to 
> "backfire" is debatable.

Oh, of course he intended it to "backfire."  Bush
is Osama's wildest dream come true.

 I think most people saw his tape as  being laughable and an 
> attempt to influence the election and left it at that. I  don't
> think it changed anybody's minds of how they would  vote.

I doubt it had much if any effect.  But the way the
right wing deceptively tried to use it was inexcusable.






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