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Within the last week of the 2004 election, Osama Bin Laden sent a video effectively endorsing Kerry.
If Osama Bin Laden endorsed John McCain, would that make you more or less likely to vote for McCain?
Osama in that video said:
"... easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there and cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses ...
This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat."
Last edited by compJockey; 09-28-2008 at 08:51 PM..
Reason: added some details
Declaring Victory
Documents captured after 9/11 showed that bin Laden hoped to provoke the United States into an invasion and occupation that would entail all the complications that have arisen in Iraq. His only error was to think that the place where Americans would get stuck would be Afghanistan.
Bin Laden also hoped that such an entrapment would drain the United States financially. Many al-Qaeda documents refer to the importance of sapping American economic strength as a step toward reducing America’s ability to throw its weight around in the Middle East. Bin Laden imagined this would happen largely through attacks on America’s oil supply. This is still a goal. For instance, a 2004 fatwa from the imprisoned head of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia declared that targeting oil pipelines and refineries was a legitimate form of economic jihad—and that economic jihad “is one of the most powerful ways in which we can take revenge on the infidels during this present stage.” The fatwa went on to offer an analysis many economists would be proud of, laying out all the steps that would lead from a less-secure oil supply to a less-productive American economy and ultimately to a run on the dollar. (It also emphasized that oil wells themselves should be attacked only as a last resort, because news coverage of the smoke and fires would hurt al-Qaeda’s image.)
he even helped the cause by saying the battlefield with America was in Iraq and here we came in full expense.
Bin ladin would want Bush to have won and endorsing Kerry did that. He may still endorse Obama to help McCain win. His plan is working now so why stop? Read the above and remember what he wanted and what has happened.
I don't think you're thinking. The #1 goal of al Qaida is to keep the Iraq insurgency going. They don't want Obama, and they didn't want Kerry. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of Americans who are easily fooled.
It wouldn't effect my desision. I'm voting for Obama and don't want any input whatsoever from terrorists.
The citizens of our allied countries however, they have an opinion I value seeing as we may need to work with them. Even our unfriendly but potentially rectifiable countries might have some sway, but those bent on terrorism have no place in politics at all, for or against.
Which of the candidates is most likely to continue draining our economic resources chasing him where he isn't?
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come on people
