Bush says bin Laden tape aided re-election: report - Yahoo! News

Bush says bin Laden tape aided re-election: report - Yahoo! News: "Tue Feb 28, 9:47 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
President George W. Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by
Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, The Examiner newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Bush's comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book 'Strategery' by Bill Sammon, a long-time White House correspondent.
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'I thought it was going to help,' Bush said. 'I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the president, something must be right with Bush.'"