Your lips to God's ear...that tape really rattled me today. Bothered me no end...you have to believe that OBL would want to hurt Bush's chances, not help, so was this a miscalculation on his part?
Lou Dobbs (just channel surfing and caught this) said tonight that the video reminded him of a previos OBL tape where he tells Europe that he doesn't want war with them...don't fight me and I won't fight you (paraphrasing of course).
A friend of mine said that he believes that OBL wants Bush to win...because whatever BIG plans they (OBL and Co.) have in mind, they want it on Bush's watch.
Yes, culture problem. They scared Spain, thought they could scare US. UBL doesn't understand the US. Probably still is sitting in his cave trying to figure out why the Taliban have gone missing when Clinton never did anything.
A friend of mine said that he believes that OBL wants Bush to win...because whatever BIG plans they (OBL and Co.) have in mind, they want it on Bush's watch.
I have heard several people posit this twisted logic. Sure UBL wants Bush to win, so he can kill off the remaining 25% of UBL's merry band. Sure he does.
We can't expect psychopaths to think clearly 100% of the time.
I think you're giving OBL too much credit. Him and his gang are very good at mis-reading American culture...
Well, this is a guy who thought that the 9/11 attacks would lead to us running out of the middle east the way we ran out of Somalia.
A friend of mine said that he believes that OBL wants Bush to win...because whatever BIG plans they (OBL and Co.) have in mind, they want it on Bush's watch.
Your friend is wrong. It's not that Osama wants Kerry (not even Kerry is that bad) but that the terrorist cause would be strengthened if they can make it lok like they ran a U.S. President out of office the way they got rid of the Spanish PM.