Yahoo! News - Bin Laden Condemns Bush, Says New Attacks Possible
DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden burst into the U.S. election campaign on Saturday, issuing his first video tape in more than a year to deride President Bush and warn of possible new Sept. 11-style attacks.

Bin Laden, taunting the man who has vowed to take him "dead or alive" for the past three years, said Bush had failed Americans with his Middle East policies, deceiving the nation and provoking Muslim groups like al Qaeda to strike again.

"Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," he said, making his clearest claim yet of responsibility.

Osama who? While I think that this tape will rally the Bushbots to an even stronger hysteria, I also believe there will be an equal number of people who will see this as a reminder of Bush's failure to capture the man who actually attacked us. (At least, that's what I hope.)

Besides, I don't see the Bush supporters fighting the "terrorists" anymore, I see them fighting the "liberals" and using terrorism as one of the means to that end.

Here is a perfect example-

Bush vowed after the tape aired that "Americans will not be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our country."

Kerry said "we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."

But Bush objected when Kerry, during a local television interview, repeated his almost daily criticism that Bush allowed bin Laden to escape in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when he "outsourced the job" to Afghan fighters.

"This is the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking," Bush said of Kerry's comment. "It is especially shameful in light of the new tape by America's enemy."

Campaign aides said Kerry taped the interview before he knew what was in bin Laden's tape, while Bush was briefed on the tape earlier on Friday and still delivered an attack on Kerry afterward, before the tape aired.

Granted, John Kerry will use this as a political tool also, but I found it interesting that Bush's focus, once again, was not on Osama or the fight on terror, but on defeating his perceived enemies on the homefront.

We will see how this plays out over the next few days.