Since he's been dead for 2 1/2 years, and isn't a US citizen,
he would only be able to vote as a demoncRAT.
Posted on 06/07/2004 7:10:03 AM PDT by SJackson
OSAMA bin Laden could have made a good living as a political consultant if he did not choose to kill babies in stead. The al Qaeda/Ba'ath Party strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan is, at core, a political one. They seek not just to pull Iraq into chaos, but to defeat President Bush as well.
Every bomb, terror attack, suicide raid or urban guerilla offensive is aimed squarely at ending Bush's political career. Ironically, the real test of American resolve will not be our willingness to stay in Iraq, but our desire to keep Bush in office.
The history of terrorists messing around with the political systems of their victim countries is a long one. The Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in January 1968 set in motion a chain of events that led to Sen. Eugene McCarthy's excellent showing in that year's New Hampshire primary, Robert F. Kennedy's entry into the presidential race and, finally, Lyndon Johnson's withdrawal from the contest.
In 1994, when Yasser Arafat wanted to defeat the moderate Labor Party in Israel so he could posture himself in opposition to the hard-liners, he resorted to terror attacks in Israel right before the election. The carnage so shocked Israeli voters that they turned against the frontrunner — Labor candidate Shimon Peres — and elected Likud hard-liner Benjamin Netenyahu instead.
In March of this year, al Qaeda turned the Spanish election on its head with its railroad bombing and defeated the favored candidate from the party of pro-Iraq war President Jose Maria Aznar and elected an anti-war socialist instead.
But to fathom the al Qaeda/Ba'ath strategy, we need to remember how the Iranian militants manipulated the hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980 to defeat their bete noire, President Jimmy Carter. By dangling and then retracting the hope of releasing their hostages, they made Carter look weak and overmatched. Once Reagan won, they quietly let the hostages go. As he was sworn in, they were flying home and Carter was frantically handling the wire transfers of funds to pay their ransom.
Al Qaeda and the Ba'ath Party want to defeat Bush to avenge his tough stance against them after the 9/11 attacks. They know that John Kerry would usher back the Clinton days of timid U.S. reaction and that the Democrat's likely repeal of vital sections of the Patriot Act would open the door for their terror strikes in America.
The thugs want Bush out and are determined to ratchet up the cost of the Iraq War to bring about his ouster. That's why they will target any American they can. By having the troops continue their current activist role in Iraq, Bush is sticking to his policies at the risk of committing political suicide.
Turning sovereignty over to Iraq won't stop the terror attacks. They will decline only after Bush is either re-elected or defeated. It is the elections in the United States, not those in Iraq, that the enemy most seeks to influence.
Bush's surrogates should bring to America the message that the terrorists would be overjoyed to see the end of his presidency.
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Of course, Kerry is his best ally.
Unfortunate but true - the terror attacks in Iraq WILL probably increase after June 30. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm right.
Maybe, but the bad guys will be facing Iraqi troops that are far less PC than we are! They will use some tactics that we would be prosecuted for using. We already have evidence of this happening now.
LLS
To hell with what Osama and his allies want, who cares. What have they ever done to improve the wrold and make it a better place for ALL people. When you spread death, tyranny and destruction of free societies, I don't think you get much of a say................IN ANYTHING!!
That's a good point. We still have troops in Kosovo, etc. long after Clinton promised they would be gone. But we don't hear about casualties there.
Rightly or wrongly, if there are not US casualties involved then most Americans probably will not concern themselves with it very much. IMO.
Terrorists want Democrats and Kerry to win.
American public opinion does not work the same way as European public opinion. Not event the NYT and all the lamestream media that regurgitates what the cranky gray lady has to say can channel US public opinion at their will.
But, there is bad blood between them. OBL is a multimillionaire and his extended family is worth billions. OBL and Kerry have competed for some of the same very wealthy women. Kerry can only take wives sequentially while OBL can take four at a time. This gives OBL a tremendous advantage especially among Muslim wealthy women, many of whom have been educated in France.
Kerry has been working on overcoming this disadvantage for many years. As I understand it, he has petitioned his churc and the state of Massachusetts to be allowed to have two wives at once. It is terribly nuanced but does cut OBL's lead. I'm sure they'll put this dispute aside as they discuss whether the next attack should be before or after the election.
"When you spread death, tyranny and destruction of free societies, I don't think you get much of a say................IN ANYTHING!!"
Funny, that is what the liberals have done to this country. That is probably why they don't want us to have a free say.
Well, it pretty much has, and I predict the attacks will continue to decline in Iraq. There simply is no political upside for al-Qaida now that the demarcation line of OCCUPATION has been passed. Even an attack on American soldiers will be seen by Iraqis as an attack on them.
As to attacks on America, we all know our enemy has had the capability to attack us since Sept 11, and they haven't. Isn't it time we consider that CONSEQUENCES and HUMILIATION have stunted their WILL?
And all those "patriotic" lefties in America want him out, too. Isn't it "nice" that they all want the same thing? Sounds like grounds for "peace" to me!
Funny, with the left you always have to use quotation marks around your words, because they never mean what they say.
"Osama and his allies all want Bush out." Yes, Osama, the democrats, the leftist controlled universities, and the main stream media all want Bush out.
I'm thinking of having a simple bumper sticker made up that says "Who would Osama vote for?" know it's probably a little too politically incorrect for a party campaign slogan but it does get the point across.
Since he's been dead for 2 1/2 years, and isn't a US citizen,
he would only be able to vote as a demoncRAT.
I hope you're right!
Would make a good campaign ad.. With Bush going though a clearly label alleged list of Osamas allies, sporting a sly grin...
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