Kerry calls for Rumsfeld's resignation after new 'bin Laden' tape

[FishForLunch]

Sure whatever you say your highness. These democraps are just like spoiled kids bitch and moan.

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Washington - US Senator John Kerry on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign following the airing of a new recording attributed to fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden slipped past US troops from his hideout in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan in late 2001 because Rumsfeld had not committed enough troops to finding him, Kerry, the Democratic Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election, told ABC television.

The failure to catch the al-Qaeda head on that occasion was one of the biggest catastrophes in the war against terrorism, Kerry added.

The US military says it has no information on the exact whereabouts of bin Laden, but suspects he is hiding somewhere along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In the voice recording aired Sunday by pan-Arab channel al- Jazeera, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said that the West was waging a crusade against Islam, which their boycott of Hamas and their intervention in Sudan proved.

'Their [the West's] boycott of Hamas confirmed that it is a crusade Zionist war against Muslims,' bin Laden said.

The recording was the first appearance of bin Laden in the Arab media since al-Jazeera aired a voice recording on January 19 in which the al-Qaeda leader offered the West an armistice.

In Sunday's recording, bin Laden said that the rejection by the West of his armistice was proof that the West opposed dialogue. The West was insisting on continuing a crusade war against 'our nation.'

[Usually Lurkin]

I should expect Ted Kennedy to come to Rumsfeld's defense over the afghanistan campaign:

(from theCorner):
TED AND JOHN AND CONFLICTING MESSAGES [Byron York]

Here's a quiz: was the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan "brilliant" or was it a "catastrophe?" It depends on which senator from Massachusetts is speaking. One Republican press secretary on the Hill noticed -- and helpfully sent out an e-mail on the subject -- that on "Meet the Press," when Ted Kennedy was asked about his opinion that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has worsened the nuclear threat in Iran and North Korea, he said this:

I don't think there's any question that that's been the, the case. I think the--we went--after we had the brilliant actions against the al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the political judgments, as the record is showing now, was made, "Well, we can clear out Iraq just as quickly, and we can go in there."

Meanwhile, on ABC's "This Week," John Kerry was asked about a new tape released by Osama bin Laden:

This is one of the reasons why Donald Rumsfeld should resign. The design of the attack on Afghanistan, which had insufficient troops to surround Tora Bora, insufficient effort to commit American troops, was one of the great catastrophes of this entire effort in the war on terror.

Posted at 09:23 AM

[Drbio]

Why would my post get an edit? All I said was that Kerry has become insignificant and that even some in his own party have taken note.

wow.

[Mavdog]

well, this is "the accountibility president"...

the president picks his people. the senate had their chance when they voted to confirm, so it's all hot air by them at this point.