Vote Bush and play into Bin Ladens hands

Guest · Posted: 08/30/04 - 03:42 Post subject:

Why Osama bin Laden
is voting for
George W. Bush
SUPPOSE OSAMA bin Laden isn't hiding out in Pakistan trying to figure out how many wives he's got.

Suppose he's really hiding out in Newport Beach trying to figure out who to vote for in the next American presidential election.

Who would Osama bin Laden vote for -- George W. Bush or John Kerry?

If you said "that's a no brainer," you're right -- Osama bin Laden has got to be a BIG supporter of George W. Bush.

Look at the record. Bin Laden and al Queda's game plan on September 11, 2001 was clearly to set in motion a chain of events that would destabilize the Islamic world, on the assumption that many of the American lackey governments would be replaced with Islamic fundamentalists in any real social upheaval.

So George W. Bush's big anti-terrorism move is to give up any real pursuit of bin Laden for three years while he instead destabilizes the entire Islamic world by taking out the government in Iraq and replacing it with... NOTHING, except a fervent desire to have Vice President d**k Cheney and his cronies at Halliburton Corp. profit off Iraqi misery with no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars? You got it!

And it gets better! Osama bin Laden's main supporters are Islamic fundamentalists like the Taliban in Afganistan, who are locked in a fierce cultural battle with Islamic secularists like Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In a very real sense, Saddam Hussein is the natural enemy of Osama bin Laden.

So George W. Bush not only pulls the dogs off bin Laden's trail when it's still warm and gives Osama exactly what he wants -- "plays into his hand," in Texas parlance for all you cowpokes out there -- but he also guns down Osama's natural enemy! "Whoa pardner, that's quite a plan ya got there! Tell me, Georgie, did you think that up all by yourself?"

Well, even though he's now trying to pin the blaim on the CIA, the fact is George W. Bush did pretty much "think" up this whole stupendously bad idea, asking his aides for evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9/11 from Day One. Bush personally fostered an atmosphere where preposterous assertions by the CIA, Israeli Secret Service and Vice President d**k Cheney's Iraqi-American collaborator community were considered good enough to send America to war in Iraq.

And how about the Bush administration's bofo campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi public? Wow! Disbanding Saddam Hussein's army was a brilliant move -- for the other side, in this case Osama bin Laden -- since it guaranteed that Iraq would be wracked by civil chaos, due to the fact that Bush's Richard Nixon retread, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, refused to deploy sufficient troops to actually control the country, or even the oil that was supposed to pay for this whole misadventure.

Like any really good move in chess or war, though, Bush and Rumsfeld's decision to disband the Iraqi army actually served more than one purpose... for the enemy, since it also seeded the inevitable, uncontrollable Iraqi civil unrest with dragon's teeth in the form of tens of thousands of trained (but currently unemployed and therefore available) soldiers.

Abu Ghraib was the masterstroke, though. Whatever else you want to say, George W. Bush is a guy who really knows how to make democracy look good. First, American forces arrested thousands of ordinary Iraqi citizens for no reason, then they tortured some of these innocent people with the approval of the Bush's commanding general in Iraq, Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, and Bush's Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.

Putting attack dogs on naked men seemed like good way to build Iraqi support for democracy to Rumsfeld, Sanchez, the CIA and the two publically-traded American companies -- Titan Corporation of San Diego, CA, and CACI International of Arlington, VA -- which have been sued for allegedly conducting torture for profit as sub-contractors for the American military at Abu Ghraib Prison.

Meanwhile, the entire Islamic world has become violently inflamed (just what Osama bin Laden wanted) and Saudi Arabia is spiralling into the same anti-American chaos that has already spread from Palestine to Afganistan to Iraq (again, just what bin Laden wanted). The Bush administration calls this "winning the war on terror."

FACT IS, BUSH has been a disaster as the head of America's anti-terrorism campaign, dividing old allies in the hour of need and sowing ill will toward America around the world. If he has been consistent about anything, it is his wrongheadedness. With George W. Bush at the helm, bin Laden was allowed to get away, but every commercial airline passenger in America is forced to pay -- with the loss of convenience, civil liberties and personal dignity -- every time they fly.

Bush's greatest failure, though, has been with what his father called "the vision thing." America really IS a great country with shining virtues that have the power to inspire men and change the course of history. Even Ho Chi Minh read and revered Thomas Jefferson. In any real struggle, America's power to inspire people with the promise of real freedom -- not the kind of "freedom" that runs illegal prisoner of war camps in Guantanamo Bay -- is one of it's greatest strengths.

America's two winning war presidents of the 20th century, Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, knew this and used it with great effectiveness, as did John F. Kennedy during the Cold War when he stood at the Berlin Wall and declared "Ich bin ein Berliner." George W. Bush, on the other hand, is utterly incapable of calling on the higher good in people, despite his loudly self-proclaimed religiosity.

Instead, Bush has provoked, prolonged and even promoted the atmosphere of terror, again playing into the terrorists' hands. And Osama has got to especially appreciate the way Bush went the extra mile for him, lying to the American public on national TV about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). There are a lot of Americans who wouldn't do that. Maybe John Kerry wouldn't do that.

And that's good enough for Osama. So the next time you're on Wilshire Blvd., look for a big dark car with mirror glass and a Bush bumper sticker. It's Osama, baby!

-- Bruce Brown

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