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Bush: Bin Laden helped me, book says

Tuesday, February 28, 2006; Posted: 12:42  p.m. EST (17:42 GMT) 
 
 
 
President Bush answers questions  during his meeting with Italian Prime 
Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday.


 
 
 
 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush said his  2004 re-election victory 
over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama  bin Laden, The 
Washington 
Examiner newspaper reported Tuesday. 
The al Qaeda leader had issued a taped diatribe against Bush the Friday  b
efore Americans went to the polls 
Bush said there were "enormous amounts of discussion" inside his campaign  
about the 15-minute tape, which he called "an interesting entry by our enemy"  
into the presidential race. 
Bush's comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book  
"Strategery" by Bill Sammon, a longtime White House correspondent. 
"What does it mean? Is it going to help? Is it going to hurt?" Bush told  
Sammon of the bin Laden tapes.  
"Anything that drops in at the end of a campaign that is not already decided  
creates all kinds of anxieties, because you're not sure of the effect. 
"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."

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