Not Fit to Hold Office

In response to this revelation that a Guantanamo detainee claims to have helped Osama bin Laden escape Tora Bora, Don Imus this morning asked Harold Ford Jr. whether he agreed with John Kerry’s charge that the Bush administration let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora because it was distracted by Iraq. To his shame, Congressman Ford agreed with this charge and stated he still believes it to be true.

There’s a books called “Master of Chaos” by Linda Robinson, a U.S. News & World Report correspondent. (You know, one of those right wing publications.) I suggest that Kerry and Ford read it. In it, they will learn the names of the men who served in one of the Special Forces A-teams that were responsible for organizing the local Afghan mujihadeen to search Tora Bora for bin Laden. What they will find is brave men moving as fast as they could under tremendously difficult circumstances. What they will find is men literally making themselves sick in order to pull together a local force to cordon and search Tora Bora. What they will not find is men who slacked off because they were more concerned about Iraq.

Kerry and Ford slander the men who keep this nation free. They are not fit to hold elective office.