Sen. Patty Murray's shoot-from-the-hip comments made in December 2002 are coming back to haunt her. When the two-term senator told a high school class that Osama bin Laden built hospitals, roads, schools and even day-care facilities, many quickly pointed out that Murray was simply making up facts.
Now that she is running against Rep. George Nethercutt for Senate, she must explain her unexplainable comments all over again.
In Nethercutt's latest ad, there's a shot of Murray speaking: "[bin Laden has] been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better. We have not done that."
There's not a single iota of evidence that bin Laden has built day-care facilities and the hospitals and roads were constructed to help facilitate the guerrilla war against the Soviet Union more than a decade ago. Most importantly, Murray's understanding of why radical Muslims have such allegiance to bin Laden is entirely skewed.
The only way for Murray to dig her way out of this one is to retract the comments, admit she was factually wrong, and reanalyze her understanding of the world.
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