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Osama to America: Defeat Bush
National Review Online ^ | 11/02/04 | James S. Robins

Posted on 11/02/2004 9:55:59 AM PST by KeyLargo

November 02, 2004, 8:00 a.m.

Osama to America: Defeat Bush

Al Qaeda wants to make America blue.

Osama bin Laden does not want you to vote for George W. Bush.

Yesterday al Jazeera released the full unedited text of Osama bin Laden's election address to the nation, and after seeing it we can safely put him in the "anybody but Bush" column. Al Jazeera originally ran only seven minutes of the eighteen-minute tape. According to Al-Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ali Ballout, the network broadcast what was "newsworthy and relevant" and would not comment on the remaining eleven minutes. You would think that all of the first confirmable new message from Osama since 2001 would be significant, and rumors began to float about what the missing sections contained. Jihadist web sites cried conspiracy, that Al Jazeera was showing only what the CIA would let it air. Another terrorist-affiliated website said it would post the entire tape in a couple of days. This type of outcry more than anything is probably what led Al Jazeera to post the complete transcript.

And in it we learn that the al Qaeda leader does not want President Bush reelected.

For Osama bin Laden this election is a referendum on the Bush presidency. Here is the gist of his argument against the president: he is a failure as a war leader. He has used the Patriot Act to stifle freedom. He ran up a huge budget deficit. He expanded the war to Iraq to help the "shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Haliburton," and to secure Iraqi oil. And when things began to go wrong the president obstinately refused to change his ways. "So the war went ahead," Osama said, "the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future."

"And," Osama adds, "it all shows that the real loser is...you."

Bin Laden even has the chutzpah to invoke the dying thoughts of the victims of 9/11, which he characterized as, "Hold to account those who have caused us to be killed" — meaning not himself but President Bush. The terrorist mastermind justifies all of his actions as legitimate retaliation for the pain, suffering and death caused by the Bush family in the Middle East since 1991. OBL says he has been on-message for years, in interviews in which he has spelled out his goals and rationales, and through actions such as the Embassy bombings and the attack on the Cole, not to mention 9/11. Moreover, he remains belligerent: "We want to restore freedom to our nation," he says. "Just as you lay waste to our nation, so shall we lay waste to yours."

The final part of the message, which seemed to be an appeal to members of the Coalition to seek safety by abandoning the war on terrorism, was examined by the Middle East Media Research Institute and found to refer not to other countries, but to individual American states. When placed in full context, it is clear that MEMRI's analysis is correct; bin Laden is trying to strike a deal with the American people to use the power of the ballot to create more blue states than red. Here is the full excerpt of his closing argument:

[K]now that: "It is better to return to the truth than persist in error." And that the wise man doesn't squander his security, wealth and children for the sake of the liar in the White House. In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No. Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.

Seeing the tape in its entirety removes any mystery about its purpose. It is not a generic anti-American screed, as the original Al Jazeera edit was clearly meant to imply. The video is an appeal by Osama bin Laden to the American electorate to cast their votes against George Bush.

Knowing that, remember, as Osama says, your security is in your own hands.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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Anybody but Bush.

Yes, Osama, that should be enough to convince everyone to vote for G.W.!

1 posted on 11/02/2004 9:56:00 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

America to Bush: Defeat Osama.


2 posted on 11/02/2004 9:56:35 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

"What is best in life?" To crush Al Qaida, to drive their leftist collaborators before you, and to hear the lamentations of their media! Allahu Fubar!


3 posted on 11/02/2004 9:59:02 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: KeyLargo
This explains the love affair that Democrats have for terrorists...


4 posted on 11/02/2004 10:00:50 AM PST by Prime Choice (Laura Bush is like everyone's sweetheart. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is like everyone's mother-in-law.)
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To: KeyLargo; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; ntnychik; devolve; Happy2BMe; Boazo; OXENinFLA; Grampa Dave; ...
AMERICA TO OSAMA.   Get SCREWED...


5 posted on 11/02/2004 10:01:10 AM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY 2004 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: KeyLargo

I am getting sick and tired of reading Kerry's campaign speaches posted here.


6 posted on 11/02/2004 10:01:15 AM PST by kimoajax (Just got this via email.)
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To: KeyLargo

After tonights election Osama will finish writing his will.


7 posted on 11/02/2004 10:01:45 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: KeyLargo

Osama's working for the Clinton's. Look how late he is with his message. They don't want Kerry to win. Look for a Hillary/Osama ticket four years from now.


8 posted on 11/02/2004 10:01:55 AM PST by shiva
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To: KeyLargo

Calvarys_Soldier to Osama:

F*** YOU!


9 posted on 11/02/2004 10:03:07 AM PST by Calvarys_Soldier ("Election Day is my Christmas...and I have a feeling I'm getting that gift I wanted...")
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To: KeyLargo

Osama's working for the Clinton's. Look how late he is with his message. They don't want Kerry to win. Look for a Hillary/Osama ticket four years from now.


10 posted on 11/02/2004 10:03:13 AM PST by shiva
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To: KeyLargo
Terrorists against Bush!

It has a ring to it.

This should ring loudly to the sKerry supporters.

If your not for us then you are against us.

11 posted on 11/02/2004 10:03:28 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: KeyLargo

Extended the "middle finger of friendship" to Osama bin Hidin a couple of hours ago, not that there's any chance Indiana would go wrong. If diaperhead wants to talk to me about my vote, he can bring himself within 600m of me, I'll open his mind.


12 posted on 11/02/2004 10:03:31 AM PST by surtcaldera (Adding to the vastness of the rightwing conspiracy, one post at a time)
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To: Smartass

He should be so lucky


13 posted on 11/02/2004 10:04:06 AM PST by Lady Jag (VOTE BUSH OR THE US DIES)
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To: KeyLargo

Statements cutting and calculated are a sword of two edges.The wisdom of which he speaks destroys him and his cause.


14 posted on 11/02/2004 10:04:55 AM PST by noodler
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To: KeyLargo
Here is the gist of his argument against the president: he is a failure as a war leader. He has used the Patriot Act to stifle freedom. He ran up a huge budget deficit. He expanded the war to Iraq to help the "shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Haliburton," and to secure Iraqi oil. And when things began to go wrong the president obstinately refused to change his ways. "So the war went ahead," Osama said, "the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future."

If this is accurate, it seems Osama really has been reading up on Kerry/Edwards talking points.

15 posted on 11/02/2004 10:06:18 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Smartass







16 posted on 11/02/2004 10:06:31 AM PST by devolve ( http://pro.lookingat.us/ThisOldDump.html -KERRY http://pr.lookingat.us/TexasRancher.html -BUSH)
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To: KeyLargo
HEY, OSAMA, HEY MSM ---  Bite THIS!

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17 posted on 11/02/2004 10:07:16 AM PST by FreeKeys (A TRAITOR for President? NEVER! Besides, nutcase Scary Kerry wants to give nuclear fuel to Iran!)
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To: KeyLargo

America to Osama: Go fvck a goat, you terrorist POS!


18 posted on 11/02/2004 10:09:32 AM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: Lady Jag
The best the SOB can do is a GOAT.
19 posted on 11/02/2004 10:09:35 AM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY 2004 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: KeyLargo

America to Osama: Eat bugs and die.


20 posted on 11/02/2004 10:10:09 AM PST by MEGoody (Flush the Johns - vote Bush/Cheney 04)
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