[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: [IP] CNN transcript of bin Laden tape

I think it was a brilliant move on Bin Ladin's part.  He wants Bush in  
office.  His family & Bush's are thick as thieves and Bush is good for  the 
Saudi 
oil business.  So he makes a statement four days before the  election 
denouncing Bush knowing full well that Americans aren't terribly  thoughtful in 
general 
and that many of them will simply think, "Oh.  So Bin  Laden thinks Bush is a 
bad President.  I hate Bin Laden.  If Bin Laden  hates Bush then I love Bush. 
 I'm voting for Bush."  I'm really  starting to think this democracy thing 
isn't too swift an idea.  I'm not at  all convinced that the general populace 
is 
smart enough to know what's good for  us.
 
Julie Krueger
feeling prematurely sour, in advance of the elections  
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transcript of bin Laden tape  Date: 10/30/04 7:16:47 PM Central Daylight Time  
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Here is the transcript of bin Laden's message to  America's elections. Read 
it carefully.

Incredible, no?, that our enemy  tells the truth and our leader lies to  us.

yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/index.html

From:  Mr. bin Laden
To: The USA
Subject: Your Security

You, the American  people, I talk to you today about the best way to avoid 
another 
catastrophe  and about war, its reasons and its consequences.
And in that regard, I say to  you that security is an important pillar of 
human life, and 
that free people  do not compromise their security.

Contrary to what [President George W.]  Bush says and claims -- that we hate 
freedom --let 
him tell us then, "Why  did we not attack Sweden?" It is known that those who 
hate freedom 
don't  have souls with integrity, like the souls of those 19. May the mercy 
of God be  upon 
them.

We fought with you because we are free, and we don't put  up with 
transgressions. We want to 
reclaim our nation. As you spoil our  security, we will do so to you.

I wonder about you. Although we are  ushering the fourth year after 9/11, 
Bush is still 
exercising confusion and  misleading you and not telling you the true reason. 
Therefore, the  
motivations are still there for what happened to be repeated.

And I  will talk to you about the reason for those events, and I will be 
honest with  you 
about the moments the decision was made so that you can ponder. And I  tell 
you, God only 
knows, that we never had the intentions to destroy the  towers.

But after the injustice was so much and we saw transgressions and  the 
coalition between 
Americans and the Israelis against our people in  Palestine and Lebanon, it 
occurred to my 
mind that we deal with the towers.  And these special events that directly 
and personally 
affected me go back to  1982 and what happened when America gave permission 
for Israel to 
invade  Lebanon. And assistance was given by the American sixth fleet.

During  those crucial moments, my mind was thinking about many things that 
are hard to  
describe. But they produced a feeling to refuse and reject injustice, and I  
had 
determination to punish the transgressors.

And as I was looking  at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it 
occurred to me that 
we  have to punish the transgressor with the same -- and that we had to 
destroy the  towers in 
America so that they taste what we tasted, and they stop killing  our women 
and children.

We found no difficulties in dealing with the Bush  administration, because of 
the 
similarities of that administration and the  regimes in our countries, half 
of which are run 
by the military and half of  which are run by monarchs. And our experience is 
vast with them.

And  those two kinds are full of arrogance and taking money illegally.

The  resemblance started when [former President George H.W.] Bush, the 
father,  visited the 
area, when some of our own were impressed by America and were  hoping that 
the visits would 
affect and influence our  countries.

Then, what happened was that he was impressed by the  monarchies and the 
military regimes, 
and he was jealous of them staying in  power for tens of years, embezzling 
the public money 
without any  accountability. And he moved the tyranny and suppression of 
freedom to his own  
country, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the disguise of fighting  
terrorism. And 
Bush, the father, found it good to install his children as  governors and 
leaders.

We agreed with the leader of the group, Mohammed  Atta, to perform all 
attacks within 20 
minutes before [President George W.]  Bush and his administration were aware 
of what was 
going on. And we never  knew that the commander-in-chief of the American 
armed forces would 
leave  50,000 of his people in the two towers to face those events by 
themselves when  they 
were in the most urgent need of their leader.

He was more  interested in listening to the child's story about the goat 
rather than worry  
about what was happening to the towers. So, we had three times the time  
necessary to 
accomplish the events.

Your security is not in the hands  of [Democratic presidential nominee John] 
Kerry or Bush or 
al Qaeda. Your  security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not 
attack us will not be  
attacked.

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