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Paul Sperry gives us the Bush press conference that ought to have taken place when Bin Laden resurfaced.
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Here is the press conference that should have taken place had the sheepish scribes been less concerned about their standing with a bullying White House and more concerned about cutting through its false bravado and doublespeak so Americans could better gauge if they are being lulled into a false sense of security about al-Qaeda:
McClellan: Good afternoon, everyone.
I know there’s a lot of interest in the purported bin Laden tape. But let me just say we continue to act on all fronts to win the war on terrorism. We are taking the fight to the enemy. We are working to advance freedom and democracy to defeat their evil ideology. We are winning.
Q: How can you say we’re winning when the leader of the organization that attacked us is still threatening us?
McClellan: The fact we haven’t been attacked again in four years shows we are putting al-Qaeda out of business. Clearly, our strategy is working.
Q: But they waited eight years to finish off the World Trade Center.
McClellan: Look, bin Laden is clearly on the run and under a lot of pressure.
Q: How do you know he’s on the run? I mean, you don’t know where he is, so how can you be certain he’s in flight? Couldn’t he be making all these tapes from the comfort of a safehouse?
McClellan: The last time we heard from him was a year ago – in another audiotape. Clearly, he’s unable to communicate like he’d like to.
Excerpt…
Here is the press conference that should have taken place had the sheepish scribes been less concerned about their standing with a bullying White House and more concerned about cutting through its false bravado and doublespeak so Americans could better gauge if they are being lulled into a false sense of security about al-Qaeda:
McClellan: Good afternoon, everyone.
I know there’s a lot of interest in the purported bin Laden tape. But let me just say we continue to act on all fronts to win the war on terrorism. We are taking the fight to the enemy. We are working to advance freedom and democracy to defeat their evil ideology. We are winning.
Q: How can you say we’re winning when the leader of the organization that attacked us is still threatening us?
McClellan: The fact we haven’t been attacked again in four years shows we are putting al-Qaeda out of business. Clearly, our strategy is working.
Q: But they waited eight years to finish off the World Trade Center.
McClellan: Look, bin Laden is clearly on the run and under a lot of pressure.
Q: How do you know he’s on the run? I mean, you don’t know where he is, so how can you be certain he’s in flight? Couldn’t he be making all these tapes from the comfort of a safehouse?
McClellan: The last time we heard from him was a year ago – in another audiotape. Clearly, he’s unable to communicate like he’d like to.