Here’s a link to actual audio of Patty Murray talking about Bin Laden.
There’s a sentence that has been left out of most newspaper quotes, since The Columbian, the newspaper that broke the story, left it out of its original article. Here’s the full quote with the missing sentence:
Osama bin Laden has been very, very effective. We’ve got to ask, why is this man so popular around the world? Why are people so supportive of him in many countries?He has been in many countries that are riddled with poverty. People don’t have phones, no sewers, no roads, no schools, no health care, no facilities just to make sure their daily lives are OK. He’s been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. It made their lives better. We have not done that. We haven’t been out in any of these countries helping them build their infrastructure.
In other words, Murray’s comments are even dumber than they seem at first glance. Murray is under the impression that the US hasn’t given foreign aid to “any of these countries.” A cursory search reveals that the US gave $170 million to Afghanistan in 2001, before 9/11.
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