Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Bin Laden 4 Years Later

From the Osama Bin Laden audio tape released on Nov 1, 2004, almost 4 years ago:
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,"
Look around. Maybe not all of our problems are due to the war, but wasteful war spending, higher oil prices, and issuing debt to cover the tax breaks for the wealthy sure helped kill the economy. $700 billion and we're still not in the clear?

Bin Laden also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."
"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations."
With no real gains in Pakistan or Afghanistan, Iraq a swamp of nothingness, 4000+ dead, 30,000+ wounded, private corporations having benefitted more than anything else making record profits, and I won't even get started on political losses on the world stage, the quote is pretty accurate.

Bin Laden is the worst of the worst, no doubt, but his predictions from 4 years ago on what he saw would happen are stinging. Compare that to our rhetoric and feel the pain.

CNN article from 2004

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