Despite the disaster and pain of September 11, 2001 for Osama Bin Laden success was not measured by body count. It was measured in deficits, in higher borrowing costs, and in investments we could not or did not make in our country’s future. In a 2004 video tape, Bin Laden said, "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy… We, alongside the Mujahedeen, bled Russia for ten years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat." We are reaching ten years since the September 11 attacks, and nearly three months after Bin Laden’s death, the Republicans are helping him finish the job.
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