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Binladen compared american revolution { March 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54146-2003Mar6.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54146-2003Mar6.html Democrat Blasted for Remark on Revolution Friday, March 7, 2003; Page A34 Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) faced a barrage of criticism yesterday from Republicans angered by her comparison of Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to fighters in the American Revolution. "If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution," Kaptur told the Toledo Blade. "One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown." National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas M. Reynolds (N.Y.) said it is "outrageous that one of the most prominent members of the Democrat Party in Congress is equating Osama bin Laden with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and our other founding fathers. And it is a disturbing commentary on the state of the Democratic Party that not one member of its leadership and not one Democratic candidate for president has the fortitude to step forward and repudiate her." A similar comment was made by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). Kaptur responded in a statement that Republicans had "chosen to twist my words." "My comments were intended to point out that what faces us is a rising revolution being felt across repressive regimes of the Arab and Islamic world," she said. "The American people understand the power of revolution. It is in that context that I referred to the American Revolution." -- Thomas B. Edsall © 2003 The Washington Post Company

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