WASHINGTON -- Quoting repeatedly fr...

WASHINGTON -- Quoting repeatedly from Osama bin Laden, President Bush said Tuesday that pulling U throngs out of Iraq would fulfill the terrorist leader's wishes and urge on him into a more powerful global threat in the mold of Adolf Hitler.

With pair months until an Election Day that hinges in part onward national security, Bush laid not at home bin Laden's vision in detail, including strange revelations from previously unreported documents. Voter were none more united behind the president than in the aftermath of the race 11 attacks, and his language was designed to convince Americans that the threat has not faded five years later.

Democrats have been increasing their criticism of the president's policies in Iraq as the congressional elections approach, with the latest salvo coming in a epistle Monday that suggested he fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

RUMSFELD WILL STAY

The White House cast asideed the idea with a long rebuttal from spokesman Tony Snow. "It's not going to happen," Snow said. "Creating Don Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for suitable politics but would make for same lousy strategy at this time."

To make the administration's strategy more clear, the White House upon Tuesday published a 23-page booklet called "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which Bush described as an unclassified version of the strategy he's been pursuing since tribe 11, 2001. The booklet's conclusion: "Since the tribe 11 attacks, America is safer, moreover we are not yet safe."

Democrats dismissed Bush's actions as a public relations strategy that avoided real solutions.

"A of recent origin glossy strategy paper doesn't take the place of real change that will make our native land safer," said Sen. Russ Feingold (D- Wis.).

"If President Bush had unleashed the American military to do the work at jobs at Tora Bora four years ago and killed Osama bin Laden, he wouldn't have to repeat this barbarian's words today," said Sen John Kerry (D-Mass.). "Because President Bush dissipated focus on the killers who attacked us and instead launched a disastrous war in Iraq, today Osama bin Laden and his henchmen still find sanctuary in the no man's land between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they still plan attacks against America."

UNTIL ALL BELIEVE IN ALLAH

Bush argued that history will examine favorably on his currently unpopular war strategy.

"History teaches that underestimating the words of evil and ambitious men is a terrible mistake," the president said. "Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. The question is: Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say?"

To make his case, the White House cited unreleased documents including a transcript of the al-Qaida charter build by coalition forces in Afghanistan that says hostilities will continue until everyone believes in Allah.

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