Please check my logic here, folks? If Osama still lives...

[benburch]

...then why does he release tapes JUST when Bush seems to most need that help to escalate the "War on Terra"?

The only reason that could make sense is that he realizes that he has goaded Bush into destroying the USA, and that if he goads Bush and supports Bush with these threats, that the job will be completed so much faster than he ever hoped.

It must seem to him as though Allah delivered his enemy to him.

Thoughts?

[FreedomAngel82]

1. And aren't they only audio tapes too?

[Poll_Blind]

2. Correct. n/t

PB

[benburch]

3. Recently, yes.

Or so I recall.

[IChing]

4. Then the chorus of talk show host smearing liberals and democrats with OBL

references


can we say
HATE WEEK

manufactured in the US without a doubt.

I love hate week don't you?

[EFerrari]

10. Hate Week, indeed.

When in doubt, hate.

[bananas]

5. They are family friends and business partners.

The Hinckleys are also family friends and business partners.

[neoblues]

6. That or Satan...

Perhaps it's not that Allah sent George to Osama, but Satan sent George to us (after all, by their own reasoning, the radical Christians are expecting the AntiChrist; they just didn't realize he was here already).

[seriousstan]

7. He thinks Bush is at his weakest when in fact

Bush is at his neediest. He has the same misunderstandings of our culture that we have of his.

[fishwax]

8. if Osama lives, bus has failed

and I don't see why dems aren't repeating, ad nauseum, what kerry said back in the presidential debates: this administration sold us on a phony war that has distracted our attention from a known and real threat.

[DrDebug]

9. Bush bin Laden inc.

Salem bin Laden was, through his American representative James R. Bath, an investor in Arbusto Energy, a small oil company run by George W. Bush.

James Reynolds Bath was a former director of BCCI, and part owner of Arbusto Energy. James was a friend of George W. Bush at Yale and was suspended in the Texas Airguard together with Bush for AWOL.

Bath brags that he was personally recruited by George H.W. Bush in 1976, when Bush was DCI, but denied the story in 1991 in a Time Magazine interview. In 1976 Bath purchased the Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of Salem bin Laden, a Saudi sheik. Bath was the representative of Salem bin Laden, according to this document. In 1990, a Saudi banker named Khalid bin Mahfouz procured a loan of $1.4 million for Bath, allowing him to buy a stake in the airport. When bin Laden died in 1988, his interest in the airfield passed to Khalid bin Mahfouz.

More detailed story at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0303/S00071.htm

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

...

In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas. Like his father before him, Dubya founded his oil business with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath, a Houston businessman whom Dubya apparently first met when they were in the same Texas Air National Guard unit. (Interestingly, both Dubya and Bath were both suspended from flying in August and September 1972, respectively, for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination.")

...

http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

[K-W]

11. And why do all of Zawahari's releases match Bush talking points?

Who knows whats really going on, but we canb e certain that we arent getting the real story.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Either that, or these "tapes" are a sham.

But, then, that would mean this Administration wasn't telling the 100%, unvarnished truth.

And lordy knows there's no precedent for THAT! :crazy: