# Kerry: Bush policies "encouraging the recruitment of terrorists" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 3, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100 "2004-08-03T05:34:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/21 "2004-08-03T20:40:13Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Can I get a cite on that? I haven’t heard him say anything of the sort in a good long time. Monday, 8/2/04: [Bush says he would make same decisions](http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=41690) > [@](#): > > **Bush acknowledged that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq, but he said they might still turn up**. “We still would have gone to make our country more secure,” Bush said, adding that Saddam “had the capability of making weapons.” > > “He had terrorist ties,” Bush said. “The decision I made was the right decision.” There you have it, straight from No Mistake Misleader. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/22 "2004-08-03T20:42:43Z")
Beaten to the post by **Elvis** I see. Oh well, quotes in stereo. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/23 "2004-08-03T20:59:43Z")
There is a Gallup poll saying Bush 51 Kerry 47 [Poll here](http://www.gallup.com/election2004/) Still Bush has an easier time with the electoral college… he will lose the national vote again for sure… but in 2000 that didn’t mean much either. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/24 "2004-08-03T21:33:53Z")
> [@Rashak Mani](#): > > There is a Gallup poll saying Bush 51 Kerry 47 [Poll here](http://www.gallup.com/election2004/) > > Still Bush has an easier time with the electoral college… he will lose the national vote again for sure… but in 2000 that didn’t mean much either. If Bush loses the popular vote and wins the electoral college, I predict riots. Not insulting signage and yelling and egg-throwing that the mass media will ignore, I mean real riots. I’ll be right out there with them. Me, a grey-haired grandmother with 3 cats, I will be right there with them. I promise not to destroy any personal property. > [@Rascapacitor](#): > > \*\*The recruitment poster for al-Qaeda is not bin Laden pointing directly like Uncle Sam, but the thumbs-up soldier peeking under a pile of prisoners’ bodies like it was some Mapplethorpe statue. \*\* That sort of got lost and I wanted to highlight it. You’re exactly right, and when the news comes out about the child rape/torture, the sky is the limit. Where are all the Bush-apologists? I hear crickets from that direction. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/25 "2004-08-03T21:58:49Z")
I was reading a recent New Yorker article that quoted an Al Qaeda strategic document that says that Al Qaeda wants Bush to win in November; they figure he’s the best thing to come along to mobilize Islamic extremists in a long time. Isn’t Bush and Co. still saying that Al Qaeda wants Kerry to win? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100/26 "2004-08-03T22:12:58Z")
Bumper sticker distributed by Kentucky Republicans “Kerry is Osama’s man, and Bush is mine.” Ad see on _Drudge_: “Ten of ten terrorists agree: Anybody But Bush!” Sure, they’ll say it. And if they can’t come right out and say it, they’ll suggest it. And if not that, they’ll imply it. At the very least, insinuate. Then there’s always “commentary”, on a phenomenon noticed, but certainly not participated in… “Some people are saying Kerry is (generic slur on patriotism)” If it doesn’t work, it may be the first time I’d ever seen where it _didn’t_ work. I’d take that as a mighty hopeful sign. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-bush-policies-encouraging-the-recruitment-of-terrorists/258100.md?page=1)