Posted on 12/26/2001 12:38:08 PM PST by madrussian
LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the world's most wanted man, said on a video broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite television on Wednesday that the September 11 suicide attacks were intended to stop U.S. support for Israel.
``Our terrorism against the United States is worthy of praise to deter the oppressor so that America stop its support for Israel, which is killing our children,'' the bearded, Saudi-born fugitive said.
He added that the tape was being issued to mark about three months since the attacks on New York and Washington and two months after the United States began its bombing of Afghan targets.
The remarks indicated the tape was recorded in early to mid December.
Looking tired but calm, bin Laden was dressed in a clean, camouflage-patterned combat jacket. He sat against a cloth or canvas screen, his Russian-designed submachinegun propped beside him. There was no indication where he was when he recorded the video.
But you are not...
So we can dump the whole "abandoning our friend" routine from now on?
Its not Israel per se. But us backstabbing the only democracy in the middle east, would definately do a great deal of damage to THE democratic leader of our planet.
Why is it that the OBL-cheering-section never objects to the billions more sent by the US to the Arab nations? A few billion to Israel, and they scream bloody murder. A few tens of billions sent to the Arabs, and suddenly they clam up like the cat that ate the canary.
How utterly transparent, yet, they strut about like little banty roosters, confident that no one can see through their little charade.
"Capisce?"
Oh, the irony.
Barak offered Arafat 97% of the West Bank, and Arafat refused without making a counter offer. That happened rather recently. So I ask you, why in the world did you type the word “Israel” rather than “Arafat” or the “Palestinians?” I can understand you saying that the Palestinians should not compromise because Israel should be wiped from the face of the map, and that you believe that their present policies maximize that prospect. That might be execrable and wrong, but is not irrational. What you typed above however is simply bizarre and detached from reality IMO.
Regardless of ones stance on support of Israel one thing is certain.....the only reason there is any semblance of stability in that region is our support of israel. If we walked off the entire region would melt before the worlds eyes. Israel would probably be forced to nuke several countries to defend herself but in the long run with no world support she would be dismantled by the arab/muslim nations. Then we could watch them fight each other until someone like sadam contoled the whole region and with the economic power that brings watch him begin to spread his dominance throughout the world....you want on that Americ first island?
You aren't? You could've fooled me.
Oh, wait--you're just anti-semitic.
I already stated that.
"Quoting bin Laden" is used to refute the previous Israel-firsters' line of defence of Israel "not having anything to do with it". As expected, they fell back onto the second line of defence, which for an observant reader should tell something about their trying to spin this.
Actually, I never said such a thing. I simply objected to the idea that we should change our policies to appease a vicious thug like bin Laden.
That does sound silly, but that's not what I said.
I don't know about the Israel-firsters (whoever they may be), but I am less scared than disgusted by people (such as Bin Laden and you) who try to use support for Israel to justify terrorist attacks on my countrymen.
That's another misconception of yours. I'd refer you to excellent articles by Sam Francis on the subject. I can send you links when I find them.
So now we are supposed to believe that Israel somehow "set us up" for the attacks on 11 September?
Read my reply to Brooklyn above.
You couldn't be straight for more than one post, LOL!
Cheap emotional blackmail is back!
And to take it one step further, maybe Osama himself is from California. If not, perhaps we can all pretend he is. It would make things so simple for those of us who regard him as a completely irrational monster, a la Sesame Street, instead of a rational, sane leader of a political and military movement. But that's the ways of war!
What are you talking about? Can you imagine what kind of precedent it would set for us to walk away from a democracy and at the same time promote democracy in other parts of the world?
Cheers,
PB
If you want to post articles from Sam Francis, be my guest. In fact, I want you too--see, it's not my site, but JimRob's, and he's the one who determines what stays & what goes.
Anyway, it'd thin down the posters on FR if you did post from SamFrancis.
Great offer.
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