Reply #11: Ah, but Shrub has admitted that bin Laden helped him [View All]

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Not that the Dems will point this out, not for the least of reasons, is that they cannot get any press.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/28/bush.binladen.reut/

Report: Bush thinks bin Laden tape helped re-election bid

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Posted: 0133 GMT (0933 HKT)


President Bush answers questions during his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, The Washington Examiner newspaper reported Tuesday.

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Bush's comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book "Strategery" by Bill Sammon, a longtime White House correspondent.

"What does it mean? Is it going to help? Is it going to hurt?" Bush told Sammon of the bin Laden tapes.

"Anything that drops in at the end of a campaign that is not already decided creates all kinds of anxieties, because you're not sure of the effect.

"I thought it was going to help," Bush said.

"I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the president, something must be right with Bush."