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.
Your obvious lack of knowledge on the issues is telling.
I'll be happy when you start to question credibility of the people egging you to go to war, who've been caught in misrepresentation and spinning.
Who's more American in your view, Kristol or Buchanan?
Amazing, I told her the same.
Making these threads silly shouting matches is their tactics, and that worked on you too. I call that "Middle Eastern bazaar mode".
How so? They both are essentially ethnic interest groups, with one working to subvert through advocating "hate crime" laws and stomping the freedom of speech, and the other being a more militant fringe, street soldiers of a sort.
"Crazy" Irv as a bad cop, and insidious Abe Foxman as a good cop.
When you show how the current policy is in OUR best interest, then I'll agree with you. Remember, Israel has interests that may overlap but not exactly the same as American ones. Your simplistic "do what they ask us" isn't exactly right.
Interesting, and I haven't had any. What am I doing wrong?
Thus an anti-Zionist Jew (I've known many of them) is anti-Semitic?
The idea that we need to appease the bastard (and make no mistake, that's exactly what the "we need to find out what bugs him and then stop doing it" mantra boils down to) is nothing more than a way to encourage the bastard to push us even further.Bravo, sir! The "madrussian" and "The Spanish Inquisition" type loons can just lump it.If we stop doing the "three things that bug him" today, he'll come up with ten new things that bug him tomorrow, because he'll know he's got us trained to do his bidding. You don't appease a bully -- not unless you enjoy being bullied, of course.
Personally I don't care about their squabbles, Zionists vs. anti-Zionists. The less America is involved in tribal wars, the better.
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