In 2004 videotape, Bin Laden explained his strategy against U.S. — ‘bleed until bankruptcy.’»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/bin-laden-bleed/

In 2004 videotape, Bin Laden explained his strategy against U.S. — ‘bleed until bankruptcy.’»

Over on the Wonk Room, Matt Duss recalls this line from Osama bin Laden’s surprise late-October 2004 videotaped address:

And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the Mujahedin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan with Allah’s permission… And it all shows that the real loser is… you. It’s the American people and their economy.

The CIA judged that Bin Laden’s videotaped message was an effort by al Qaeda to deliver four more years for President Bush, thus helping them recruit a new generation of terrorists.

[billyoc]

1. Are we still winning?

:rofl:

[amdezurik]

2. so by definition

anyone who voted for the shrub in 2004 is a traitor and a fool. And the same goes for any McLame voter...

[Oregone]

3. So? His plan has nothing to do with our current economic woes...

Its neither here nor there. Lets not give him too much credit now.

[Myrina]

4. .. but he sure has given Dimson an excuse to misdirect the money ...

... remember that budget surplus of 2000?
Long gone - down Halliburton way.

Had we still had some of that money, a Wall St. bailout wouldn't have been so exasperating to the average American's fiscal survival.

:shrug:

[Oregone]

5. Yeah, but he probably would of anyway (remember PNAC was lobbying an Iraq attack in the 90s)

And a budget is completely separate from the economy.

This has to do with loose credit, no oversight, irresponsible banking practices, etc, all while an economy slumps. Bin Laden isn't a wealthy New York banker with no ethics. He doesn't have a hand in this.

If not for him, consumer sentiment may not of dipped, and we might of charged our asses here a year or two earlier.

[fla nocount]

6. His CIA handlers must have given him the long range skinny of things, n/t

[Pastiche423]

7. To bad OBL could not see the video

nor could he have been elated at the crisis in this country, since he's been dead for almost seven years.

[dkofos]

8. I thought that was Grover Norquist. Is he on the same page as the terrorists??

[Raksha]

9. I guess now we know who the REAL terrorists are...

like we didn't anyway. This just confirms it.