[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18163]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OSAMA BIN LADEN STILL LOOSE

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I came to the floor to speak briefly 
about one of our outstanding superintendents in Louisiana and to pay 
tribute to an accomplishment that has been made on education. But in 
light of the rantings that went on for the last 30 minutes in the 
Chamber from my two colleagues on the other side, I would like to state 
for the record that America is not tired of fighting terrorism. America 
is tired of the wrong-headed and bone-headed leadership of the 
Republican Party that has sent $6.5 billion a month to Iraq, when the 
front line was Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. America is tired of 
leadership which led this country to attack Saddam Hussein when we were 
attacked by Osama bin Laden, and which captured a man who did not 
attack the country and left loose a man who did.
  Americans are tired of bone-headed Republican leadership that 
alienates our allies when we need them the most. And Americans are most 
certainly tired of leadership that, despite documented mistake after 
mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake--and even their own 
party admitting mistakes--never admits that they do anything wrong. 
That is the kind of leadership Americans are tired of.
  I didn't come to the Senate to have partisan rantings on the floor, 
but I most certainly am not going to sit here as a Democrat and let the 
Republican leadership come to the floor and talk about how Democrats 
are not making us safe. They are the ones who are in charge, and Osama 
bin Laden is still loose.

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