With the mid-term election only two weeks away, and polls showing the potential for the Democrats retaking the House and possibly the Senate, the Republican Party has called on an old ally to help them win elections.
As others on the web pointed out, on Oct. 29, 2004, just four days before the U.S. presidential election, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden released a videotape denouncing George W. Bush. Some Bush supporters quickly spun the diatribe as "Osama's endorsement of John Kerry." But behind the walls of the CIA, analysts had concluded the opposite: that bin-Laden was trying to help Bush gain a second term.
With it uncertain whether Osama would be willing to assist the Republican in 2006, reports in the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune say the GOP has decided to enlist him in ads. While the ads has lots of references to terrorists, and implies that Democrats would be a bad choice.
But what it doesn't say is that the GOP's Cut and Run strategy in Afghanistan has emboldened terrorists and it's Stay and Die strategy in Iraq has only lead to the deaths of many American's and Iraqis.
One could only imagine where the world would be today if the administration had taken the war on terror seriously and actually gone after the people who attacked the United States on September 11. Instead they went off on another directions, requiring the US to basically give up on the War on Terror before it was won.
Perhaps the reason the Administration didn't go after Osama is that if they captured or killed him then Iraq would not be viewed as part of the war on terror and being able to attack Iraq was more important that winning the war.
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