maverick4

"Bin Laden also spoke to the ongoing situation in Iraq throughout the tape, heavily criticizing the Bush administration. He says to the American people, "you made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of its murderers, [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld…"

"You permitted Bush to complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which gave him a clear mandate from you -- with your full knowledge and consent -- to continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then you claim to be innocent! The innocence of yours is like my innocence of the blood of your sons on the 11th -- were I to claim such a thing."

Bin Laden says President Bush's words echo "neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle." "People of America: the world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for this purpose, but the Democrats haven't made a move worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war there."

According to the transcript, bin Laden says there are two ways to end the war: "The first is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you." The second is to do away with the American democratic system of government. "It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations."

Bin Laden comes close to offering a date for the tape with this by saying, "... just a few days ago, the Japanese observed the 62nd anniversary of the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by your nuclear weapons." The anniversary was on August 6.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...l-tape-ir.html

DarrylS

Read the same thing on the ultra biased QUI CON, Jedi wanna bepost, find it somewhat difficult to believe that he is all that concerned about the Kyoto Accord.. he is in some mountain in Pakistan or Afghanistan somewhere living in caves and he is concerned about Kyoto?? Sometimes I wonder if this is a translation issue or might be a message to his minions about something completely different. It comes down to who is doing the translating??

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Seymour93

Bin Laden is a real expert on Washington politics, isn't he?

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patsfan13

I hear Nancy Pelosi is planning on suing OBL for plagiarism.

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Patriot_in_NY

Look, you heard the man, we all need to convert to Islam, then all will be peachy.

Real World

What a fruit loop. Still though, I think we should hold a global summit and talk nice to these people.


Better yet...

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
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QuiGon

Wow... looks like the truth hurts... you must be really pissed off right now... step back and relax...

maverick4

How about this one:

"One should pause, think and reflect," the speaker says according to the transcript. "Why have the Democrats failed to stop this war, despite them being the majority?"

The answer to that question, he later says, is "the same reasons which led to the failure of former President Kennedy to stop the Vietnam War. Those with with real power and influence are those with the most capital. And since the democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates, be they presidential or congressional, there shouldn't be any cause for astonishment -- and there isn't any -- in the Democrats' failure to stop the war."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/bin...ape/index.html

maverick4

"The transcript indicates that bin Laden refers to statements from U.S. soldiers in Iraq, from an interview taped by a British journalist. Portions of the interview aired in an exclusive report on ABC News in July, which can be viewed by clicking here.

In the July 16 report, two soldiers with the 2nd Infantry division, Corporal Joshua Lake and Specialist Michael Vassell, spoke candidly about their experiences in Iraq.

"We got grenades going off. We've got an IED blowing up your vehicle. And then you're expected to go back in those four to six, four to five hours and get, and relax to come back out and do another six hours," Lake said. "You don't have time, you just don't have time to do it."

"Because we have people up there in Congress with the brain of a 2-year-old who don't know what they're doing. They don't experience it," Vassell said. "I, I challenge the President or whoever has us here for 15 months to ride along, alongside me. I'll do another 15 months if he comes out here and rides along with me every day for 15 months. I'll do 15 more months. No, I - they don't even have to pay me extra."

reflexblue

I want to know where he got the JUST FOR MEN for his beard. And if he (Bin Laden) is coloring his beard(narcissitic,egocentric) how can he be viewed as a devot Muslim. Hes demonstrating Western culture himself. The next thing you know he'll be carrying a Gucci man purse like the one A-ROD has.

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