A Kerry Endorsement (Bin Laden)(from Investors Business Daily)

Investors Business Daily ^ | Nov. 1, 2004 | IBD Editorial

[FairOpinion]

But what else can we say about bin Laden's man in this election? That's right: Kerry is bin Laden's choice. No, the mass murderer didn't come right out and endorse the Massachusetts senator. But there's little doubt how he leans.

According to a translation of the tape by the Middle East Media Research Institute, bin Laden warned that any state in the U.S. that "white thug" Bush carries on Tuesday will in effect have chosen to fight bin Laden's al-Qaida.

"We will consider it an enemy to us," says MEMRI's translation, while "any state that will vote against Bush, it means that it chose to make peace with us and we will not characterize it as an enemy."

Got that? If you and your neighbors know what's good for you, you'll vote for Kerry — an obvious attempt to influence the election.

At least two questions come immediately to mind: (1) Why would bin Laden prefer Kerry? and (2) Will voters let bin Laden corrupt our election the way terrorists swayed Spain's elections last March?

[txhurl]

You know, that pi$$ed me off too. I can easily tan as dark as OBL, and if I could wrap him up in a million band-aids, he'd be white as me by Jan 31 when let out of the basement.

PLUS, technically OBL is Caucasian?!!?!?

[TeleStraightShooter]

Your security is in your own hands. And every (US) state that doesn't play with our security(by voting for Bush) has automatically guaranteed its own security.

In case of a Kerry win, Osama will claim he scared US into rejecting Bush.

Apparently al-Jazzera intentionally mis-translated the word "ay wilaya" (which means each U.S. state) to "country" to set Osama up for this claim.
Additionally al-Jazzera initially omitted the parts that reveal that Osama prefers a Kerry win.

al-Qaeda claims they scared Spain, when in fact they did not.
The Spanish PM blamed 3/11 on a domestic terrorist attack - perhaps al-Qaeda lead him to it - but he was kicked out of office for accusing the wrong people and generating a whole lot of last minute votes against himself.

This could be what exactly what Osama had in mind when he spoke MMoore's words with out referencing them.

MEMRI.org article that corrected al-Jazzera mis-translation.

Osama threat that Kerry better win, or else ...