Decrepit Old Fool

Osama Bin Laden released another video this week, and it has been confirmed that it was actually him.

I’ve always said that I could find something to agree with from almost anyone:

…he tells the American people that they have failed to persuade the Bush administration to stop the war in Iraq. “You made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor punished those who waged this war,” the speaker in the tape says, according to the transcript obtained by ABC News.

“You permitted Bush to complete his first term, and stranger still, chose him for a second term, which gave him a clear mandate from you… to continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan”.

I agree; that is strange that we let Bush wage war in Iraq.  We had Saddam bottled up and he wasn’t going anywhere.  He certainly wasn’t any threat to us.  We should have kept our focus on Afghanistan where we were going after your sorry ass, Osama.

The speaker tells the American public that there are two ways to end the war in Iraq: “The first is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you.”

The second way, he continues, is to reject America’s democratic system and convert to Islam.

“It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interest of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations”.

“I invite you to embrace Islam,” the speaker says.

And I invite you to eat my shorts, you terrorist pile of swine excrement.  If you wanted to convert the US to Islam, why didn’t you just come here and become an Islamic televangelist?  Aside from being funnier than a troupe of monkeys loose at high tea, you’d have gotten embarrassingly rich.  The Christian televangelists would probably even invite you to their decadent parties.  It isn’t like there’s that much difference between you and them.

Again, the maddening thing is that Osama has a point about corporations making out like bandits while soldiers die in an entirely unnecessary war that makes us LESS secure.  But he didn’t figure that one out on his own.  Neurophilosophy has a link to the whole transcript, noting that the most-wanted terrorist is now a fan of Noam Chomsky.  Apparently during his years of hiding, he’s had time to read up on neurolinguistics – LOL.  Chomsky is an interesting guy, and no fan of Bush, but I doubt he’ll approve Bin Laden’s fan-club application anytime soon.