Whoa… after explaining that the 9-11 attacks were revenge against the US for Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, he delivers a rant that could come right from the mouth of Michael Moore:
We didn’t find difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration due to the similarity of his regime and the regims in our countries. Whish half of them are ruled by military and the other half by sons of kings and presidents and our experience with them is long. Both parties are arrogant and stubborn and the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared during the visits of Bush to the region while people from our side were impressed by the US and hoped that these visits would influence our countries. Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military. And was feeling jealous they were staying for decades in power stealing the nations finances without anybody overseeing them. So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it th e Patriot Law to fight terrorism. He was bright in putting his sons as governors in states and he didn’t forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times. [...]
We agreed with Mohamed Atta, god bless him, to execute the whole operation in 20 minutes. Before Bush and his administration would pay attention and we never thought that the high commander of the US armies would leave 50 thousand of his citizens in both towers to face the horrors by themselves when they most needed him because it seemed to distract his attention from listening to the girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention to airplanes butting the towers which gave us three times the time to execute the operation thank god. [emphasis mine]
Well… if that isn’t an endorsement of Kerry I don’t know what is. And incidentally, what would the Libertarians have to say about this, namely, that it’s our fault for Israel’s actions??? whatever, it was just a thought.
Again, the transcript can be found here.
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2 Responses to “OBL Transcript”
October 30th, 2004 at 3:03 am
The little weasel is stumping for Kerry! We knew that, though, didn’t we?
October 30th, 2004 at 2:56 pm
I’m undecided on bin Laden’s motivations here, but consider this: if the intent really is to influence the election, it’s fairly obvious that bin Laden dosen’t have much pull with American voters. If they pay attention to him at all, it will more likely be to do the opposite of what he says. Either bin Laden knows this or he doesn’t. If he doesn’t know this, than he is even more galactically dim than advertised, and probably wouldn’t have survived this long (against both the Soviets and us).
Assume, for the moment, that he knows that Americans will either ignore him or do the opposite of what he appears to want. If so, what is he trying to do in this tape? It sounds to me like he’s trying to manipulate more people into voting for Bush.
Consider, for a moment, what bin Laden has been saying he wanted for the last decade or so. He has stated repeatedly that he is trying to start a massive holy war, pitting Islam against the West. Thanks to the U.S. presence in the Middle East, he’s halfway there already. From his point of view, who seems more likely to give him the holy war he wants, Kerry or Bush?
I submit that Bush is more appealing to bin Laden for the exact same reason Bush appeals to some people in the US: he’s more likely to “really stick it to those terrorists”. US military action (particularly if it kills civilians) is exactly what bin Laden wants. People in the US seem to think that bin Laden should be acting like a kid that threw a rock through a window and now that the owner of the house has come out with his shotgun, “woo-boy you better run now, kid”. The reality, though, is that bin Laden broke the window because he .wanted. to pick a fight with the owner of the house. He wanted him to come out with his shotgun and look menacing. And he wanted other kids like him to see it all.
Similarly, he fears Kerry for the same reason many in the US do: concern that he will not be violent enough, concern that Kerry will try to return the mentality to pre-9/11 days. Make no mistake, this prospect scares the crap out of bin Laden. The reason he started blowing things up was .exactly. because the world pre-9/11 scared the hell out of him. He saw the slow but sure infiltration of capitalism and western decadence into everything, including his people and his religion and he started killing people to make sure that would not be allowed to continue.
What he fears most is the economic assimilation of his culture, something at which the U.S. economy (not the U.S. government) is extremely adept. He would rather be fighting the U.S. government. The most demoralizing, total victory against bin Laden would be a Middle East with rich fat kids, fast cars and strip clubs.
Unfortunately for us, neither Kerry nor Bush will deliver that, both focused on doing battle with abstract concepts like “drugs” or “terrorism” instead of economic warfare against a specific culture. Even so, Bush gives bin Laden much more of what he wants: open conflict.
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