The Osama Bin Laden Endorsement

November 1 2004
Counterbias.com
Steve Horowitz

How come Netflix can find bin Laden, but the U.S. military can't?

We can be fairly sure that bin Laden has seen Fahrenheit 9/11, because, in his latest video, he refers to its infamous footage of Bush reading My Pet Goat to Sarasota schoolchildren after learning of the World Trade Center attacks.

"It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him," bin Laden says in the video. "He thought listening to a child discussing her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers."

So bin Laden admits that al Qaeda overestimated Bush. Hey, millions of Americans did -- and still do! The real question is why, four days before the election, bin Laden released a tape saying Bush's Mideast policy had failed Americans and provoked groups like his to attack again.

Is he trying to help Bush by inciting Americans with renewed 9/11 rage? This assumes he wants another Bush term because the administration has done such a fine job of turning Muslims and Arabs against us, and the hardening of battle lines supports his strategy of promoting a war for global domination.

Or is he a Kerry man, reminding us of the Bush administration's incompetence, and that he remains free three years after Bush vowed to get him "dead or alive"? (Bush repeated that vow again on Saturday, even though his last public statement on the issue, in March 2002, was "I truly am not that concerned about him.")

Bush makes a big deal about the fact that he was president on 9/11 -- which is like saying J. Edgar Hoover deserved another stint as FBI director because he held the job when JFK was shot. I don't follow that reasoning, myself. Bush supporters respond that there have been no attacks on our soil since 9/11 -- because, they assert, we're safer and stronger under Bush's leadership.

But how safe are we if the chief sponsor of Islamic terrorism -- mastermind and financier of the attack on our homeland -- is not only still free, but promising new attacks and videotaping election commentary?

It's disconcerting, to say the least. But let's not dwell on it. And for God's sake, let's not exploit the situation for political -- oops, too late. The Republicans already have a new Internet banner campaign online, showing a picture of Kerry and asking "How can they protect us?"

The real question is, how could they do worse?