Posted on 11/02/2004 12:41:12 AM PST by TeddyCon
Osama bin Laden boasted that the invasion of Iraq has bogged down the United States in a hopeless war that advances al Qaeda's recruitment goals and bin Laden's aim of bankrupting the U.S. economy, according to a translation of the full text of the terrorist leader's remarks on a videotape that surfaced last week.
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This guy is too much! ROFL
Where is the link to this story?
Is there money in our checkbook still?
Did he say anything about tax cuts for the wealthy?
Sheesh, why could they not have simply released the whole thing? There is nothing in the full transcript that seems particularly worthy of censorship. The mainstream media sucks. Osama will get 3 times the attention becuase they put it out one piece at a time. Oh well, it's been pretty obvious which side Al-Jazeera/CBS/NYT have been on for some time.
All of these stories about Bin LAden breaking the economy are just media spin. They AGAIN ignore the constant attacks on Bush and the threats on the state's, which is the main story. Many of these stories cite statistics that seem to agree wtih Bin Laden. This is just discraceful media spin before the election. VOTE BUSH.
You can get it here without registering...
http://news.google.com/news?q=Bin%20Laden%20lauds%20costs%20of%20war%20to%20U.S.&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265139/posts
Link to the full translation. the aljazeera link has been overloaded, and isn't currently working, probably because people are coming here becasue its the onlky place they can get the whole translation cuz the media is hiding it.
"The thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war" about the dangers of invading Iraq, bin Laden said on the tape, according to a U.S. government transcript released yesterday. "But the darkness of the black gold [oil] blurred his vision. . . . The war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threatened his future."
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On the tape, the Saudi millionaire brags that he is succeeding beyond his dreams in destabilizing the U.S. economy and bankrupting the U.S. government, asserting that President Bush is easily manipulated into taking military and security steps that harm American interests.
The results of the U.S. war in Iraq, he said, "have been by the grace of Allah positive and enormous, and have by all standards exceeded all expectations."
"The policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations -- whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction -- has helped al Qaeda to achieve these enormous results," bin Laden said. "And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and we are playing as one team toward the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ."
Bin Laden added, "Bush's hands are stained with the blood of all of those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business," referring at one point to the Halliburton energy services company, which Vice President Cheney led before his election.
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"All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration," bin Laden said. "All that we have to do is to send two mujaheddin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written 'al Qaeda' in order to make the generals race there, to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses, without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies."
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"As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record, astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars. Even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujaheddin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan."
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In the address, bin Laden also imagined the nearly 3,000 victims of the attack on the World Trade Center reflecting during their last moments on their guilty feelings about U.S. foreign policy. "They say, 'How mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its aggressive foreign policies against the weak,' " bin Laden said.
I won't support this mess.
But it is there on the front News page.
LOL! Mikey must have had a conference call with them to explain all this complexity.
Did bin Lama mention lowcost prescription drugs for senior citizens?
Seems like he's hit on every other Demon rat talking point...
Tell me this guy isn't campaigning for Kerry! Typical DemonRat, he's probably on the DNC's payroll.
[snicker]
May this goat turd have a world of grief descend on his filthy little head......
Better late than never. Sorry about that, but I had to run.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6387377
Good one.
I think that every penny spent will be worth it if we can drop a JDAM just far away enough from him to semi-scramble his brains, make him shit his pants, and injure him critically enough to make them try to bring their demented god to a facility somewhere to be told there is little hope for him.
I see a dime being dropped at that point by someone wanting to make a buck.
I also see us saving him, nursing him back to a semi-invalidic health, telling the world he is dead, and cutting off his eyelids and playing deafining, decadent rock and roll music for the rest of his pathetic life.
I wish his statements about economic damage were just bluster, but two facts stand out. First, our responses are costing us tremendously more than his provocations around the globe. Second, al-Qaeda hasn't touched a single foot of oil pipeline or a single well or refinery in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere except Iraq. The funders of our enemies have received unparalleled wealth through higher oil prices.
The similarities of the Liberal and this O.B.L and the conspiracy theories all stem from the same sess pool of degeneRATS. The language they speak and the words they use, If someone without any knowledge of what was happening would say these players are on the same team. I dont know who they are fooling. Im no expert in politics, but I sure as he77 know what I am hearing and seeing. ANd the funny thing is that they are not even secretive about it. They openly show themselves to be on the same team. Anti Americans. Osama has written his speach for the Demon cats. Heinze Ketchump is his man of choice.
Note the similarity between Osama's propoganda and the Dem talking points.
Telling.
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