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To: energyplay who wrote (47273)	3/11/2004 5:00:37 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<police had found a van with detonators and an Arabic-language tape of Koranic verses, according to news agencies, and that it was considering all lines of investigation.>> Those terrorists never learn!! They able to do this highly coordinated attacks and can't leave their Koran at home and get rid of surplus detonators!!

To: energyplay who wrote (47273)	3/11/2004 5:27:38 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<Bush Unleashes First Attack Ad>> date? 3/11!!! <<Among the hard-hitting images used in the ad are a person in a gas mask, a grainy picture of an airplane landing, a man running and another man slowly turning his eyes to face the camera as a female narrator talks about Kerry's agenda on terrorism.>> These adds will be higly effective! I Al Qaeda didn't exist, it must be invented! Bush Unleashes First Attack Ad Television spot says of Kerry: "Wrong on taxes, wrong on defense." By Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — President Bush unleashed his first paid television attack today against his presumed Democratic foe, John F. Kerry, with an advertisement that calls the Massachusetts senator "wrong on taxes, wrong on defense" and features stark footage suggestive of lurking terrorists. The Bush ad, which includes pictures of the president and a statement in his own voice vouching for its content, asserts that Kerry would seek to raise taxes by $900 billion and would advocate a foreign policy that requires the United States to seek permission from the United Nations before taking action to defend itself. The ad also claims that Kerry, if elected, would take steps to weaken anti-terrorism laws. Among the hard-hitting images used in the ad are a person in a gas mask, a grainy picture of an airplane landing, a man running and another man slowly turning his eyes to face the camera as a female narrator talks about Kerry's agenda on terrorism. The ad was expected to air in 18 closely contested states, such as Florida, Wisconsin and Ohio, Bush-Cheney campaign officials said. A longer version of the script was used for a radio advertisement that the Bush-Cheney campaign released simultaneously. In addition, the campaign released another 30-second TV ad that promotes Bush as a president with a positive vision on the economy and healthcare. In reply to the attack, Kerry told reporters that Bush was ignoring such issues as education, healthcare and jobs. "They can't talk about those things because George Bush doesn't have a record to run on, he has a record to run away from," Kerry said in a news conference at the Capitol. This afternoon, Kerry's campaign also issued a detailed, point-by-point rebuttal of the Bush charges. Kerry has never specifically called for a $900-billion tax increase, but he has said he wants to raise tax rates for the wealthiest Americans to what they were under President Clinton, and he has proposed a $900-billion expansion of government spending on healthcare to help make coverage available to the uninsured. On the United Nations, Kerry has advocated closer consultation with the world body on the U.S. occupation of Iraq and other matters. But he also voted for the congressional resolution in October 2002 that authorized the president to use force against the regime of Saddam Hussein, the now-deposed Iraqi president. Bush's 30-second commercial was launched just nine days after the president telephoned Kerry to congratulate him on sewing up the Democratic nomination. But that moment of cordiality appeared a distant memory even before the president began his assault on Kerry's record. Day after day, the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign have been using e-mail and other methods — including presidential speeches — to criticize Kerry in an effort to plant doubts about him in the minds of voters just as the Democrat is stepping onto a broader national stage. Television advertising was the next step. For his part, Kerry has also run commercials critical of Bush, but none since he became the presumptive Democratic nominee on March 2. Instead, prominent groups allied with the Democrats beyond the formal party structure and the Kerry campaign have begun running anti-Bush TV ads in battleground states. Meantime, the new Democratic standard-bearer has also ramped up his rhetoric against Bush and his allies. On Wednesday, Kerry called Republican critics "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen." Today, he spurned GOP demands for an apology. "There is a Republican attack squad that specializes in trying to destroy people and be negative," Kerry said latimes.com