The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his groups goal is to force America into bankruptcy.
Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday but released the full transcript of the entire tape on its Web site Monday.
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” bin Laden said in the transcript.
He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, “using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers.”
“We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,” bin Laden said.
Found by William Taylor.
So, Bin Laden must have sat in with the democrats who blocked the finance reform bills?
#1
No, he’s with the Republicans who have been demanding less oversight of the markets since President Reagan and before.
The funny thing is that there are certain politicians and bureaucrats who did this without any terrorist help.
#3
Satire aside, I must agree with you. Like blaming the devil for the incompetence of humans, Usama is not needed for the American economy to shoot itself in the foot.
Coincidence?
McCain takes the lead in the polls, and the stock market crashes, confidence in the economy disappears, etc.
Obama evens up in the polls yesterday, and the market is up. It was down again today by 390, and when Gallup announces that Obama is ahead by 2, the market reverses itself and recovers half that loss.
Coincidence? I think not.
#2 Russell
Actually he was Clinton’s advisor for the 1994 banking deregulation bill…
#5
True, sir.
However, it did begin earlier: called Reaganomics, it revolves around the ideas of reduce the growth of government spending, reduce marginal tax rates on income from labor and capital, >reduce government regulation of the economy<, and control the money supply to reduce inflation.
Again, my original statement was a satirical rebuttal.
what everyone is missing or is overlooking….is that economic war is just as devastating to the general populace as a shooting war…maybe even more so…the wahabi’s basically control saudi arabia which owns quite a bit of the us financial sector… you know someone somewhere first thought of these sub-prime loans and then they catch on in a viral sense…that bank in france that lost billions because of one trader (now it is 2) was able to pull it off because of either gross incompetence or someone looking the other way…and it doesn’t have to be a muslim either someone doing a favor or making $ doing something that they shouldn’t ….
there is more to this posting than anybody is giving it credit for
Ok, is he dying his beard or what?
He may be under a rock in Pakistan but it looks like he’s getting his Just For Men beard treatments pretty easily. “Get rid of the gray in 5 minutes!”
#7 sadsack – Yep, it looks like a Grecian Formula before and after picture.
So why didn’t your buddy Bush capture or kill him? It’s been 7 years.
Also, shouldn’t you have photoshopped him with a clown nose or something?
Ok, so after the U.S. goes bankrupt, then what happens? Are the Chinese going to come over and tell us we have to move out of our houses? Or give back all the cheap crap we’ve bought?
No war, no trillions spent over seas. It was some history that shouldn’t be forgotten. I don’t think he deserves all the credit, but one can ask if there wasn’t a 9/11 would we have gone into Iraq and thrown away the money we have on security programs and junk that doesn’t work only to find ourselves feeling we still aren’t secure?
Bankrupt the U.S. and you bankrupt the world…
So the terrorists won after all?
What’s more of a burden in a war than wounded soldiers? One has to care for them and protect them. It makes fighting a battle a lot more difficult because of the wounded.
My point is the strategy of these terrorists makes sense. Why go all out against a power greater than you when you can just pick at it’s feet with the hopes of it falling down and dying of it’s own weight?
Damn this sucks. What to do now? Makes it more difficult that Pakistan doesn’t help nor allow us to go in and kill this bastard. Then again, is it just one head on this cell? I doubt it. So how useful is it to keep at it?
Isn’t this kinda like taking credit for the sky being blue?
I blogged about this very topic back in July. Why is everyone else so far behind?
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=19094
Funny. But what Osama couldn’t do…Phil Gramm and John McCain did. It was Gramm and McCains ENDLESS fight to keep deregulating every aspect of our financial markets, to the point they became “gray markets” with no oversight or rules. It wasn’t Osama and his war that bankrupted us, it was McCain and the other ‘free market’ conservatives that undid all Federal oversight of our markets…and of course NOW want the tax payers to bail them out. @#$&!#^&*!&
Typical Republican. It’s free market while they can make profits, then the governments problem when they collapse.
Duh. This has always been their stated goal. They know they cannot kill a significant number to have any effect. Go to the airport: they have won there. Try to get a house loan: they have won there. The mistake “W” has made over and over is assuming that the terrorists are idiots. They have proven over and over that they’re much smarter than he is (ain’t hard, I know). Just how gullible are you folks?
Yet republicans still think they can kill an ideology with guns. McCain is simply feeble minded. The BIG question: are Americans stupid enough to elect another republican? I fear the answer is “probably” due to the preponderance of racists.
#7 Russell
I really wasn’t disagreeing with you. I know it started with Reagan, the Republicans passed it onto Clinton and he signed it. I guess what I should have said is that neither party has the right to point the finger at the other.
I got your satire…
If bankrupting the United States is a terrorist plot then George Bush and Congress are the biggest terrorist on the planet.
God knows they’ve done about everything humanly possible to achieve that goal.
#23
Perhaps another reason I should not comment on such things when I first get out of bed. I see your point and concur.
I don’t mean to be alarmist, but I think it is finally time to crack each others heads open and feast on the goo within.
Somehow I dont believe terrorists are responsible for the downfall of US economic empire. When you have idiots running your government, you can only blame yourself, not the outsiders.
Okay, say Osama’s right, the U.S. does go bankrupt, and the terrorists “win”. “Mission accomplished!” What then, do we get Osama as president, and the U.S. becomes a Sharia state?
Hey Osama we can screw ourselves just fine without your help!! Are greedy business and financial people will collapse America long before you ever will. Heck our government is already bankrupt!!
It’s sad to admit: but a guy in cave outsmarted the president of the USA.
Thanks, Republican’s, for foisting on America someone who just wasn’t up for the job.
And for applauding him each step along the way.