Bin Laden tries to influence election!
Interesting timing for the release of this bin Laden tape, isn't it? Not to say that it isn't authentic or that it isn't meant to influence the election - of course it is.
I haven't watched or heard any of the spin on this yet, so i don't know what anyone else is saying, but obviously, someone is trying to help Bush win. Yes, bin Laden speaks incredibly logically on this tape (i certainly hope it is not a surprise to anyone that he says our foreign policy is what brought on the 9/11 attacks) and if people were thinking logically, they would think, "damn, why is he still out there? Why didn't we get him years ago when we had the chance? Why did we go to Iraq instead?". But, of course, people are not going to think logically, and they are going to say "bin Laden says not to vote for Bush, and i don't want to agree with bin Laden, so i'm going to vote for Bush!".
Bin Laden is an evil madman, but he is not dumb. He knows that the average American is going to do the opposite of what he says. And of course he wants Bush to win - Bush has been the best recruiting tool for al Qaeda ever! We get attacked by bin Laden and al Qaeda and Bush attacks the country with the LEAST connections to them for a completely bogus reason! Bin Laden couldn't have asked for a better response!
Bin Laden doesn't want Kerry enlisting allies and actually attacking al Qaeda! He doesn't want us to have the world on our side - he wants the world to mistrust us and to think that we will attack anyone except the real enemy.
This certainly has helped people forget all of the terrible mistakes of Bush's that have been brought to light recently - somewhat convienently, i think! Of course this is going to focus on our "war on terror" again, which for some illogical reason, people think that Bush has done a good job on. Of course, that makes no sense whatsoever since we are now LESS safe than we have ever been and we have less of the world allied with us than ever and there are more reasons than ever to attack us. We'll see how this plays out.....
I haven't watched or heard any of the spin on this yet, so i don't know what anyone else is saying, but obviously, someone is trying to help Bush win. Yes, bin Laden speaks incredibly logically on this tape (i certainly hope it is not a surprise to anyone that he says our foreign policy is what brought on the 9/11 attacks) and if people were thinking logically, they would think, "damn, why is he still out there? Why didn't we get him years ago when we had the chance? Why did we go to Iraq instead?". But, of course, people are not going to think logically, and they are going to say "bin Laden says not to vote for Bush, and i don't want to agree with bin Laden, so i'm going to vote for Bush!".
Bin Laden is an evil madman, but he is not dumb. He knows that the average American is going to do the opposite of what he says. And of course he wants Bush to win - Bush has been the best recruiting tool for al Qaeda ever! We get attacked by bin Laden and al Qaeda and Bush attacks the country with the LEAST connections to them for a completely bogus reason! Bin Laden couldn't have asked for a better response!
Bin Laden doesn't want Kerry enlisting allies and actually attacking al Qaeda! He doesn't want us to have the world on our side - he wants the world to mistrust us and to think that we will attack anyone except the real enemy.
This certainly has helped people forget all of the terrible mistakes of Bush's that have been brought to light recently - somewhat convienently, i think! Of course this is going to focus on our "war on terror" again, which for some illogical reason, people think that Bush has done a good job on. Of course, that makes no sense whatsoever since we are now LESS safe than we have ever been and we have less of the world allied with us than ever and there are more reasons than ever to attack us. We'll see how this plays out.....
posted by rich at 11:37 AM
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