despicable acts of terror. the world before 9/11 looks different than the world after 9/11. every nation has a choice to make. in this conflict, there is no neutral ground. the facts show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction. in this battle against terrorism, there is no silver bullet. today, america is again forging its future by choosing a man to lead it into the 21st century. this is cnn s coverage of election 2000. this is the last official stop of campaign 2000. [ cheers and applause ] if people do what i think they re gonna do, you re looking at the next president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] the schedule over the last 48 hours reflected a major worry florida, home of governor jeb bush. and when he looked me in the eye and said, florida s gonna be bush/cheney country, i believe him. in texas, george w. bush was known as a bipartisan governor. at the time, the s
they sent in a bunch of cia officers with suitcases full of money, and they hired a bunch of tribesmen to go after bin laden. - u.s. officials say american commandos operating alongside opposition forces got within two miles of a cave complex where osama bin laden is believed to be holed up. they could not go any further without exposing themselves to fire from the al-qaeda fighters defending the cave. - there was a moment where we had bin laden bottled up inside tora bora, we knew where he was, but the road to pakistan was left open. - opposition and u.s. special operations forces rolled into the tora bora mountains in pursuit of fleeing al-qaeda fighters, but the pentagon says it s anyone s guess where bin laden is. - al-qaeda got away, bin laden went off to pakistan, but what was very striking is how quickly it turned to iraq. - i never say anything s inevitable, but if i were saddam hussein i d be thinking very carefully about, uh, the future, and i d be looking very closely to see
opposition and u.s. special operations forces rolled into the tora bora mountains in pursuit of fleeing al-qaeda fighters, but the pentagon says it s anyone s guess where bin laden is. al-qaeda got away, bin laden went off to pakistan. but what was very striking is how quickly it turned to iraq. i never say anything s inevitable, but if i were saddam hussein, i d be thinking very carefully about the future and i d be looking very closely to see what happened to the taliban in afghanistan. the pepperoni on panera s new toasted baguette. is sliced a little thicker. to hold more flavor.
there was a fight to be taken on. it s an extraordinary schedule. there was an interesting editorial in the washington post. the title was i met osama bin laden three times. i m sorry to say his story isn t over. it says when i met bin laden for the first time in the tora bora mountains in 1997, he predicted the united states would soon cease to be a super power and surprised me by suggesting an alliance of afghanistan, pakistan, iran and china against the united states and india. what do you think about that, general? well, there s a lot of conventional group think about what happened with bin laden and what his thoughts were, et cetera. i disagree with some of the basic premises. certainly the united states remains a super power. when you are we challenged as a result of the debacle going