What should Kerry do when Osama's capture is announced?

[malatesta1137]

These official reports of the capture being 'close' are just more manipulation from this White House. It's very possible that they've had Osama in captivity for months and are just waiting for the right moment to announce it.

What should Kerry do?

He should raise doubts about the timing, obviously, but also remind the public of where Bush Sr. was on 9/11, meeting with his brother. Additionally, we have to remind Americans that Reagan and Bush financed the training of Bin Laden and his 'freedom fighters' in Afghanistan in the 80's against the USSR.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040904/D84SVR580.html

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1. Focus On Health Care & the Economy!

Bread and Butter Issues, YEA BABY!

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2. Bush said so himself, "Osama doesn't concern me, he's not important."

[Psuedo War Hero]

16. I think you took that out of context but whatever...

What do you mean what should Kerry do...if we catch Osama he should be happy and give Kudos. All this negative changing the subject crap is gonna cost the election.

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18. Negative changing the subject crap? I think you're referring to your

kingboy, Bush. Bush should have stayed on track in the beginning, four years later isn't going to cut it. He's four years late and 3 trillion dollars short!

[Karenina]

3. Demand a DNA test!

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Erraaa... rather SEVERAL INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL DNA tests. :evilgrin:

[mopaul]

4. point out the obvious suspicious timing

and the fact that it's a hoax

[UpsideDownFlag]

5. my opinion:

if bin laden is caught, we are screwed. there will be a massive media orgy, a re-heightened state of uber-patriotism, and people will momentarily rally around the flag.

just mho.

[liberalnurse]

6. What do you think *bush should do?????

Osama isn't even on *bush's list anymore.....not since there was so much profit to be made in Iraq.

Never mentioned him at their Convention......*bush would rather attack a war hero and Senator instead of discussing strategies on the man who attacked us on U.S soil!

[annabanana]

7. Well, It's about damn TIME!...........

We could have locked him up years ago, before Al Quaida began it's latest transformation into this hydra-headed phase.
If only we hadn't wasted so much time distracted by the Iraq detour!!

[olddem43]

8. Even if they don't capture him, they will announce that they are

about to, or even that that have, if it is very close to Nov. 2nd.
Just like Nixon announced the imminent end of the Viet Nam war just before election day in 1972. Wasn't true, but that didn't stop them. Kerry should probably start now, saying that it's already been 3 years too long and his capture now is too little and too late, because he has already had 3 more years to train and finance other like minded terrorists. The death of the leader after this long means very little. The Soviet Union didn't fall with the death of Stalin either, as he had had too long to consolidate his power.

[onehandle]

9. Be happy it happened during his Presidency....

...because Bush could only catch VD.

[earthside]

10. It Won't Happen!

Take away the boogy-man and the American people will quickly begin to say, "Let's move on to other things now."

It is in Bush's best political interest the bin Laden not be apprehended. As long as Osama is 'out there' threatening us, Bush can play the FEAR card ... even if he doesn't mention bin Laden by name.

[zorbasd]

11. Kerry should preempt that possibility

by stating that the Bush Administration should better start to focus on the capture of the suspected mastermind, Osama Bin Laden. That should be a top priority for the National Security of the United States.

[monarch]

14. He definitely should innoculate himself now but

I agree with a poster (sorry, I don't remember who) in another thread who said that Kerry should say that it would have been important if we had gotten Bin Laden immediately but now that they've had plenty of time to put other leadership in place, his capture is not particularly significant--and I think that he should start saying stuff like that before they make any claim of capture.

[NMDemDist2]

12. i dont believe they have him or they would have been talking it up at the

RNC what a baddddddd man ObL is etc etc so it would remind everyone and get them ready to "celebrate" the capture

no way they have him on ice IMHO

[mopaul]

13. and he ain't the only terrorist in the world

don't forget little timmy and terry terrorist right next door in kansas

[malatesta1137]

15. hope you're right

and if they had Bin Laden, his thousands of followers in the Middle East would definitely know by now, and we would know too. It'd be impossible to keep a thing like this secret. Unless Bush is torturing Osama into pretending he's still out there to his followers (Tom Clancy will use this somehow).

Anyway I like the idea of Kerry saying this capture is 3 years too late and Osama had been replaced by other and more dangerous leaders.

[creeksneakers2]

17. Kerry should call it a great day for America.

Kerry should be happy about it and show it. Nothing worse than somebody griping when everybody else is celebrating.

[cally]

19. Start now with the meme that delaying the capture of Osama

allowed a build up of Al Queda (sp?). Every speech should emphasize this point. Never let up on it. Then when Osama is 'captured' in October, Kerry responds with exaltation. Then a day or two later he brings up his meme, "America is at risk because Osama has had three years to improve Al Queda. We should have focused on him rather than Iraq.'

[loudsue]

20. I like the "The Capture of Osama is Three Years (& Iraq) too Late!"

Then Kerry could say that HE would have stayed on Al Qaida and gotten Bin Laden sooner, and not gone into Iraq on faulty intelligence/lies.

Then describe how much of a foothold terrorism has gotten as a RESULT of our detour into Iraq, when we were NOT looking for Al Qaida.

People will understand that clearly.

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