More than a boost, Osama Bin Laden is a smoke courtain for the Bush Administration so called war against terrorism.
In the past, both families were together in bussiness and strategies, now OBL is like a Joker in the game: always welcome. They are terrifying the US people while Halliburton and so other make profitable business.

JAMP
Havana, Cuba

Usama Bin Laden is dead. If you are scared of some dead guy in a cave you are a coward. The biggest threat to the US Constitution comes from inside the US, from the Zionist Politcos and the Corporate Media.

It's been 1,586 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'

FLASHBACK: The Bin Laden Tapes: Fact or Fiction
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6166.htm
But we actually have no reason whatsoever to believe that these tapes are authentic. While there have been reports of scientific voice analyses performed on them, these studies have been invariably done by CIA experts. In fact, on only one occasion was an independent analysis done. And while US officials were certain of that tape's authenticity, Swedish scientists were equally convinced that it was a fake.

Actually Jane, the nitwits on this board (most whom are presumably Jewish and have nothing better to do with their time than to spew hate) cannot seem to grasp the concept that Jefferson basically repeats what pundits from around the globe are saying in the news, but does not advocate its views.

Based on their flawed logic, if Fox News talks about a liberal point of view, does that make Fox News a liberal establishment ?

These people are anonymous cowards who decide to shoot the messenger rather than to integrate themselves into society and have civil discourse.

I mean, with comments like "Eat s*** and die", are these people any more intelligent than the Palestinians they claim to hate ?

Well first of all I would like to say how convenient for this tape to surface when w is under scrutiny of his illegal wire taps. Just like he has used the lives of 3000 Americans to justify his actions in the metaphorical "War on Terrorism" he keeps OBL on the back burner and then puts him out there to remind America of 9/11. If w was really, really serious about terror he would just get OBL out of the way, something that he was supposed to have been doing for the past 4 years, but why when his presence justifies the administration's illegal causes. For the righteous who decide to not let the wool be pulled over their eyes this is not a boost for w but a reminder that this administration will use anything to justify its cause. Even if that means keeping the man who killed 3000 Americans alive.

Just like OBL is the best thing to happen to Bush and his administration, George Bush is the best thing to happen to OBL and campaing of worldwide hate of America and Americans.

Who else but Bush has recruited more terrorists around the world against the U.S.?

I thought it was interesting that OBL offered a "truce". Since he obviously knew this would not be realistically accepted it must have been for other consumption, but I don't see who would hear that and not think that OBL is ready to give it all up. Maybe the cave life is getting old and he badly needs a shower. And to say that it takes time to plan an attack and that is why there hasn't been one in the US in over 4 years sounds like pure talk. I think he's done. I think anyone who heard the tape would also agree. He still needs to die though, and die horribly.

As for Bush, he's always been an opportunistic liar so sure he'll use this to his advantage. I wouldn't expect anything less from him and his brain.

I remember the days just five years ago when our former president could go to a foreign country and walk down the streets with cheering fans and signs praising his efforts. Oh how times have changed! We now have a president who has admitted to leading us into a war under false pretences and has divided the country into your either your with him or your against him and frankly I guess I'm the latter. We may have been attacked on 9/11, but that does not give this country and the president a green light to do whatever he wants when he wants. I have never woke up with sleep in my eyes and had fear in my heart over some terrorist coming to get me and snatch me out of my cozy bed. If that were the case, we would be living in some third world country under a dictatorship. The only thing this president is good at doing is putting fear in the hearts and minds of every American. The only thing fear does is control people and I've about had enough. Listen I'm for the troops, but I refuse to accept the notion that $500 billion dollars spent over in Iraq could not have been better spent in this country building better security within our own borders. Ok, lets move on to my next subject oil-gas. How did Dictator Bush get rich in the first place? You guessed it! Off of old daddy's oil. So why are our gas prices so high? So the Bush family can live the next 500 years without ever doing what every middle class person does every day- WORK! That was an easy assessment so lets talk about Hurricane Katrina. The story of the hurricane goes a little something like this. A hurricane came, it wiped out a whole city, and what did Bush and his cronies do? NOTHING. Can you imagine sitting on top of your house for five days without any food or water in the United States, neither could I until I saw it on national TV. How can we go over and fight this phony baloney war on never ending terror if we can't even help our own citizens in a time of crisis? I think I made my point so let venture on down the road to the CIA leak investigation. Joe Wilson said Sadaam did not have weapons of mass destruction before the war started-- so what did this administration do to make sure this guy was not heard? They smeared him so bad that they outted his CIA undercover wife. By the way, was Mr. Wilson right over Weapons of Mass Destruction or was the liar liar pants on fire company that makes up the White House right? The outrage keeps pouring through my fingers so I will continue with TORTURE. I can't even believe I'm discussing this very topic with you at this moment in time. We have secret prisons in other countries, we beat, humiliate and most likely rape prisoners of war. Think about this very scenario for one second. If another country came to the United States and tried to take over this country wouldn't you be shooting at them to defend the US? The answer is yes, so as the president has said there are only 7% of actual terrorists in Iraq and the rest are human beings that don't want the United States on their soil. So the question that has to be asked why are we torturing human beings that have faces just like ours. Ok and now for the final straw in the greatest reality TV show on earth "The White House." Please do not read this email, talk on the phone or talk in the comfort of your own home because President Nixon I mean Bush is SPYING ON YOU!!!! What is next? Abramoff taking down the white house, Rove indicted, gas prices $5.00 a gallon. The president has destabalized the entire planet.

My favorite moment is Scott McClellan saying this administration doesn't negotiate with terrorists, we put them out of business. Well, they haven't put any terrorists out of business yet. And, this administration is becoming more of an irrelevant joke as they keep pushing irrelevant sound bites to continue their irrelevant governing. I believe that this administration, usning the terrorism rue wants the U.S. to become the equivalent of apartheid S.Africa. Just in this case it won't be whites w/ control over blacks. It will be the haves w/ control over the have-nots. And we'll swallow it gladly because we're being "protected" from "terrorism."

The fact of the matter was OBL was behind an attacked that killed over 2000 people, crippled the airline industry, and did significant damage to the U.S. economy. However much you may dislike Bush it's clear that OBL was and is a serious threat to U.S. security. As september 9/11 showed, the U.S. intelligence services are NOT perfect and finding individual people in remote regions of the world is still very difficult. I would advise the Bush-Haters to not be blinded by their hate to these realities. If you want to attack Bush on how he conducted the war, fine. If you want to attack Bush for picking favorites for contracting, fine. The only thing I have problem with are those go so far as to equate Bush with OBL and make it out as if Bush was lying that his primary goal is to protect the American People. You can argue any point but if you argue that last one ,unless you can provide hard evidence to the contrary, I'm automatically calling you a conspiracy wacko blinded by hate. For those communist foreigners like Jamp, who stated "More than a boost, Osama Bin Laden is a smoke courtain for the Bush Administration so called war against terrorism." I advise you really look at history and see how much 9/11 was NOT some minor event, nor was it a smoke curtain. Get real.

Bin Laden message a boost for Bush? You think?

Duh!

Certainly the possibility that Osama bin Laden's messages are released at times that most benefit President Bush has to be "considered."

Is this to say that bin Laden is "hiding out" in a palace in Saudi Arabia or that the U.S. is well aware of his location? Is this to say that the U.S. knew about 9/11 before 9/11?

No.

Read that again, you Republican spinners.

"No."

But certainly Americans should keep an open mind as to the possibility. Don't agree to give up your liberty without first asking questions and keeping an open mind.

Funny how someone going by "hmmm" gives people a hard time for anonymity.

I thought people would have seen through the whole "bin Laden" thing after he endorsed John Kerry for President on the eve of elecion night in '04.

We found Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground in a year, and we can't find this clown, who is on international airwaves/television, in four years? Unbelievable.

Let's face the obvious: Bush and bin Laden go together like ice cream and apple pie.

The Bush Crime Family, of which Usama is clearly a caporegime, must go down. Preferably while Connie's baby is being baptized.

According to President Bush and his minions, The Anti-Iraq War movement and criticism of his GWOT, "emobolden the enemy and demoralize the U.S. troops" in Iraq.

So, by their logic, a enemy which knows it doesnt have a "snowballs chance in hell" of defeating the U.S. military,
will take its victory in forcing the U.S. to leave before "the mission is completed" in the form of a pre-mature re-deployment of coalition forces which they call "cut and run". The idea is that the "enemy is monitoring the Anti-War movement and guaging their attacks based off of opposition within the U.S., based on an aversion by americans to the daily carnage and deaths of it's sons & daughters serving in Iraq.

Bin Laden speaking out at this particular time helps Bush because it puts a face on
his "enemy" that has been lacking. However
bin ladens "truce offer" is a complete farce. Wheter this is true or not is highly debatable.

I think he would prefer for Bush/The U.S. to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan so that if and when he strikes the U.S. in the future domestically, it would be vulnerable to attack because the defense would be in those countries, not the U.S.

Will this administration go to any lenght to get it's numbers up, and protect itself from Impeachment? Of course it will.

When will the Republicans stop being sheep and see the forest for the trees?

Bin Laden is still out there four years after 9/11 and this is a good thing for Bush? Give me a break.

Whenever the Bush Administration needs to bolster its polls or provide an argument for its self-serving agenda, Osama Bin Laden is resurrected. Just before the last Presidential election, the level of alert is elevated. When the poll is diving, raise the level to Orange. He needs to support his domestic spying program, now here comes OBL's tape. Osama seem to be Bush's ultimate PR agent. The US cannot get him, come on! Do you see the pattern here?

This is reverse logic at its best -- the guy and the organization are still out there threatening and morphing four years plus after 9/11. The Bush Administration missed the clear signals before the attack and have managed to grow the threat by a reckless attack into Iraq that has only spawned more threats and hatred. This took precious resources and goodwill away from the core of the threat in Afghanistan. For these results the media says that this proves that Bush is doing a great job fighting terrorism! Just like Cheney said a year ago that the insurgents were in their last throws. Up is down and down is up for this regime and the media plays into it.

Bush and bin Laden aren't actually working together. The administration is not leakproof enough to successfully run a scam like that for all these years. Bin Laden stopped working for Washington a long time ago.

They are merely functional allies, in that they serve each other's purposes. Both benefit from violence, instability and paranoia. They need each other to justify their destructive agendas. Otherwise their respective supporters would notice that mindless destruction is pretty much all that both of them have to offer.

Bin Laden clearly wanted Bush to win the last election. But Bush himself wants bin Laden dead. His continued survival makes Bush look incompetent, as Kate says.

Bush already has ready successors for bin Laden's role as bogeyman, in Zawahiri and Zarqawi. Let's face it, almost anyone is scary enough to scare the willies out of American heartland types.

This is the guy, who calls himself President, and I don't mean Cheney, who says he "gives no thought to Bin Laden".So we are killing thousands of innocent women and children who had nothing to do with 911. You call this help. Sorry, but I am not one of the , and I will be kind, uninformed republicans!

Bush's declaration through McClennan that: "The terrorists are on the run" seems absurd. That's their tactic, constantly moving, if indeed Bin Laden carries out further attacks on U.S. soil the whole War on Terror could quickly escalate into another Vietnam. I'm certainly not considering the truce but something new has to be tried.

I agree with many of the above who are questioning the timing of the Laden tape while Bush is under heavy scrutiny for his own illegal acts. The American people cannot really know what is happening with the Bush administration being as secretive and propagandizing as possible. Then we have the right-wingers defending whatever Bush does in the name of national security (and in the name of Jesus!), and having journalists spin it for them like Bill O on Fox. But I also thank that anyone, regardless of their political beliefs who simply spews curse words or uses name-calling on a blog like this is showing serious signs of a diminished mental capacity.

Remove the word Democracy, remove the word terrorist, democrat and republican,remove all labels and simply look at economic dynamics and realities. Patriotism and nationalism is for the ruled not the ruler. The bed-time story is just that. Why would the ruling class protect the middle class? Who sold us the idea that they would? "the president will protect the american people" what does that mean? Nothing. 26 million car wrecks a year in "america". How many 911's is that if only 25% are fatal? 6 911's a day, every day. why are we giving up our freedoms for the illusion of security? Nothing, no one can protect us from death. so we are fools to give up what we do have something that can't be given.

Looks like this latest message from UBL, like high energy neutrons in an atom smasher, has has caused a lot of unusual particles to spew out from the target mass.

However, has anything actually changed? No, UBL is still America's blood enemy, and he still wants to kill us, and will say and do anything he can to further that end. He just seems exceedingly clumsy about it and apparently has no more understanding of our nation than we do of his supporters. If I guessed, I'd say his message does show a measure of weakness on his part, though.

Even the suggestion that Bin Laden freely seizing the world's attention for anything other than his own demise somehow benefits the administration is the kind of black-is-white, press-kit dissonance we have come to expect from Bush's message machine. Only a fool can watch the mastermind of 9/11 at his liberty and conclude that the President is doing his job.

what exactly is a "blood enemy"? secondly, the ability to smell a rat in politics is not a weakness.

I find it funny that some claim the timing is of the release of the tape is planned by Bush and Co. while others claim that this is proof that Bush is doing terrible. Which one is your complaint liberals? Is Bush doing a bad job because he hasn't caught Osama yet, or is he staging the whole thing? You can't have it both ways. That is illogical, just pick one complaint and stick with it. Personally, that Bush hasn't caught Osama yet seems more sane than the calims that he is staging it all.

TRUCE?! TRUCE?! the proper words to use for w to back door in Iran
UBL is dead!!

Has anyone noticed that Zawahiri had a video a few weeks ago but OBL has a taped message. Either OBL is really far away in a cave or, more likely, he is in very bad shape. I'm encouraged and hoping for both.

I guess it will be worth seeing if the polls jump in Bush's favor after hearing from OBL. Then we will see just how many people foolishly feel Bush is protecting them. If its a lot, then this country's education system and public media are in worse shape than I thought (Bush wiretapping me will make me safe!). Oh well, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway...

Don
you speak of liberal as though it was an organism with a single mind. now that sounds a little like a conspiracy theory. also, asking someone to find a complaint and stick with it seems a little rank and file.

This makes me crazy. I'm sorry. I haven't read all the replies yet, but how the heck can it help Bush? When will people both in this country and around the world catch the clue that "BUSH HASN'T CAUGHT HIM!!" How in the world can anyone get past that and use this as a "he's keeping us safer" moment! This all makes me crazy.

I apologize if this was said 32 times already, but come on people.

I believe Bush and Bin Laden are assets for each other. Bush can wave the bloody shirt each time Bin Laden sends a tape and attack our civil liberties. For Bin Laden, Bush has a talent for making enemies out of people on the left in Latin America and the Islamic world in general. Nobody likes him! Iraq is a recruitment tool for the al-Qaida franchise and training ground for terrorists.
Both have problems, While Bush may be a recruitment tool for the al-Qaida franchise, Bin-Laden will eventually be captured or killed.
As for Bush, he rules and conducts foreign policy by propaganda. It is all words with nothing to back them up. Our industrial infrastructure is sent overseas with the jobs that go with them. He doesn't secure our borders in time of war, so cheap labor from other countries can drive down wages within our borders. He gives the military's logistic train to Halliburton, along with the money to rebuild Iraq. Hurricane relief also goes to Halliburton. He gives the senior citizen's prescription plan to the drug companies. He turns America and the world into a sweat shop for the multinational corporations. However, the cracks are starting to appear with America's standard of living going down, Senior's not getting their medicine, and our military losing it's strength. Propaganda cannot cover up universal poverty. Cheer up! The wealthy will still get their tax breaks.

Now Rove speaks and it is all about keeping the war on terror first and foremost. Scare the people and keep them in fear and this administration can do what it wants, when it wants.. This is the "Brain" of GB? Bring on OBL so that Bush can capture him..what a joke....

Peter: The only thing I have problem with are those go so far as to equate Bush with OBL and make it out as if Bush was lying that his primary goal is to protect the American People. [snip] unless you can provide hard evidence to the contrary, I'm automatically calling you a conspiracy wacko blinded by hate.

The same applies to you.

You need to provide hard evidence Bush is telling the truth and that his primary goal is to protect the American People otherwise I am automatically calling you a obessed wacko blinded by love.

You need to provide hard evidence that the plans we see in the ME today have nothing at all to do with those crafted in the 1990s by Messers Cheney, Leeden, Perle, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz, et al.

Prove Bush is telling the truth.

Do it.

Peter: If you want to attack Bush

You forgot one:

In 2000 and 2001, Bush *failed* to do the work necessary to protect the USA from attack. (Remember his August 2001 vacation on that fake newly bought ranch?)

As evidenced by the nearly 3000 murders and the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage show, Bush *failed* to protect the USA from attack on 9/11/2001.

In 2000 and 2001, it was Bush's "most solemn duty" to protect the USA from attack: He fuct up real bad.

FACT: Under President Bush and the leadership of the GOP, the USA suffered its most horrific attack.

Only a fews days ago Gideon Levy wrote in Israel's leading paper Ha'aretz:

"If the American president wanted to bring peace to the region and remove the basis for one of the important engines of international terror, he could have done this long ago. Massive American pressure would prod Israel into withdrawing from the occupied territories. In this way, America would not only be liberating the world from one of the most threatening sources of conflict, but it would also save Israel, its faithful ally, from itself. Imagine the president announcing that Israel should withdraw from all of the territories by a certain date. Would Israel defy him? Sounds too simplistic, imaginary? It would be much easier than it seems."

But, Bush will not do so. Zionist sympathizers in the US keep Israel's program for destruction of Palestinian society in place. If bin Laden kills more Americans, the fault analysis begins with Pres. Bush and Congress' unwillingness to force Israel to discontinue its occupation. Gideon Levy has it right... bin Laden's "engine of terror" is the Israeli occupation, it's fuel is the average American's fear of demanding of Bush and Congress the cessation of US pandering to the Zionists of America and their sympathizers. So, Americans will die at the hands of bin Laden so Zionist aggression can march on.

Bin Laden wants the US in Iraq forever - it works for him far better than the US out - recruiting for his team and the undermining of US institutions. So of course he gives a boost to the Manchurian frat boy. It's a variation of the Malaysian monkey trap. The monkey reaches in and grasps the banana (oil, war, terriroty), but he can't get his arm out unless he lets go the banana, which he can't because he's a monkey.

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