The Arabic television station Al Jazeera broadcast two audiotapes on Saturday said to be made by Osama bin Laden, vowing more suicide attacks inside and outside the United States and demanding that the United States withdraw from Iraq.
The speaker on the tapes urged Iraqis to wage a holy war against American "crusaders" in Iraq until an Islamic government was set up in Baghdad.
Before we invaded for Oil, bin Laden and his crowd could have given two shits about the Iraqis and Saddam. Invasion has of course changed all that, and if it was hard to flip on the lights before, it's going to get harder with each passing sunrise, George "Flak Vest" Nethercutt notwithstanding.
Despite the "flypaper filosophers" obvious incoherence on the subject "terrorists" in Iraq, bin Laden is using conflict shrewdly to shore up his standing among hard-core muslims and recruitng others to his cause, who before the invasion might have paid lip-service at most to the ideals he espoused. The longer the qWuagmire exists, the more "ammunition" we are providing our "enemies", and creating new ones every day...so I have to say again: Thanks a lot, ya fucking idiot.
posted by Jo Fish on 10.18.03 at 05:17 PM
Comments:
http://www.counterpunch.org/goff10172003.html
Suggest you read this article by STAN GOFF (special attention to the reference in article to paper by "Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner recently published a remarkable document on line, Truth from These Podia, . . ." [ www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth.pdf ]
Both are very good.
posted by: Pam on 10.18.03 at 10:13 PM [permalink]
Jo, Funny that you see the glass half empty. Your head must be the same. A lot of young Muslims shake their fists in the air and shout "we are with you Osama' but truth is they are not a viable fight force anymore. And DAMN few are willing to take on the great satan, no matter what the (Arab) papers say. Notice how the security forces were able to STOP the two recent suicide attacks before many people got hurt. For those that take up arms for the cause, the Iraqis are are the ones turning them over to the authorities. Seems they don't want them there either. Osama looks very mencaing from that mouontain Hideout, what no cave anymore? P.S. Grow up and find a new chant 'War for Oil' is a bit overdone. Try 'Bush is a liar' thats popular with the nine dwarves.
posted by: Cyber Sarge on 10.18.03 at 11:35 PM [permalink]
How many americans just died in Gaza? Where they targets or bystanders.
Who knows. I suggest waiting a while longer before crowing about whether or not anyone is willing to take on the great Satan anymore. Kinda like those weapons of mass destruction, these things take time.
And to a large point, with lying, Bush has culpable deniability, oh, we didn't know the intelligence was bad....
Whatever.
posted by: WKD on 10.19.03 at 04:06 AM [permalink]
Yeah, takes time maybe. Only took 19 guys the first time around.
posted by: WKD on 10.19.03 at 04:25 AM [permalink]
The pace of American deaths keeps ramping up. It's nice that American GI's stationed in parts of Iraq that mostly like us (Kurdish areas) or did until the gun battle yesterday (Shia area) are building schools and getting group hugs. But that is not a big help to the guys in the Sunni areas.
Being a CyberSarge is cool and all, being a flesh and blood sergeant in Tikrit kind of sucks.
posted by: Bruce Webb on 10.19.03 at 01:20 PM [permalink]
Maybe he'll have more respect from us all, Bruce, if he promotes himself to Cyber LTG. :)
For myself, I see the similarities to Viet Nam growing daily. I'd explain all these similarities, but since Cyber Sarge is undoubtedly a well-decorated combat vet he surely understands the, notwithstanding the half empty glass, with the dribble hole in the bottom......
Uh, Sarge, put down the controller, shut off the Quake III Arena, and go head over there and relieve one of the guys who would like to come home to a hot meal, a shower, and safety from the daily attacks (another soldier died today- have you heard? Do you care?).
Take plenty of socks and underwear- I hear some troops have had to trade them- for food!
posted by: Real PO1 (veteran) on 10.20.03 at 07:36 PM [permalink]
I think Bush should not be president and I do not trust Cheney and Rumsfeld. I don't know about Kerry, but I think i will vote against bush. These people give me a really bad feeling
I think Bush should not be president and I do not trust Cheney and Rumsfeld. I don't know about Kerry, but I think i will vote against bush. These people give me a really bad feeling
