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"Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic candidate John) Kerry
or (President George W.) Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own
hands ...."
-OBL

"Despite the fact that we are into the fourth year after September 11,
President Bush is still misleading you and hiding the real reason from
you, which means that the reasons to repeat what happened remain."
-OBL

"Any state that does not mess with our security, has naturally
guaranteed its own security."
-OBL

Quotes from al-Jazeera and The AP:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/23DAA5DE-7073-4F7A-9109-8C153B41A716.htm

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2873002

Comment:

Is Osama bin Laden an idiot?

Not long ago, a newspaper in Britain--our strongest ally not only
militarily but in the depth and enduring basis of its relationship to
the United States--asked readers to write to swing-state voters urging
them to vote for John Kerry. Resentful of foreign interference, many
recipients of /Guardian/ readers' letters responded by deciding to vote
for George W. Bush.

Now, with the election less than a week away, Osama bin Laden has issued
a videotaped statement attacking George W. Bush and warning Americans:
"Your security is in your own hands." The whole world--decidedly
including the Enemy--knows that we are about to vote; indeed, bin Laden
mentions it in his statement. Since national security is the most
important issue in this election, it is very good to know which
political side the Enemy is on, and this statement should make it clear:
Osama bin Laden says that unless we want him to attack us again, as he
did on 9/11, we had better vote for John Kerry.

If we take the statement at face value, we will believe that bin Laden
endorses Kerry. Since bin Laden is the Enemy, if he wants Kerry to win,
that suggests that we ought to vote for Bush: The outcome that favors
bin Laden would be bad news indeed for the United States and its
citizens--which is why the Bush campaign has been spending so much
energy telling us, just as bin Laden himself now has, that bin Laden
wants Kerry elected.

But to believe that bin Laden's statement honestly reflects his
electoral preference requires believing that bin Laden thinks Americans
will decide to vote according to his instructions. To be persuaded to
elect Kerry in order to appease bin Laden, we would have to be a nation
of utterly shameless cowards. This we are not--and if bin Laden isn't an
idiot, he knows it.

Is the man who scored the biggest tactical victory against the United
States since Tojo--and who since then has been doing remarkably well
against us strategically--an idiot? Hardly. Nor can we afford to think
of him as such; underestimating an enemy may be the deadliest mistake a
man or a country can make.

Bin Laden knows that the results of this election are important to him
in his ongoing war against America and liberty. He also knows--President
Bush has proved it--that Americans often choose simplicity over subtlety
in matters of security. In light of bin Laden's goals, intelligence and
knowledge, we must therefore examine his statement on our election not
in terms of what he warned us to do, but in terms of what he intended us
to do.

And of that there should be no doubt: Osama bin Laden knew, when he
issued that statement, that by saying Americans should vote for Kerry he
would encourage us to vote for Bush. We must therefore understand that
bin Laden wants the President reelected.

This should not surprise us. After all, this is the President who, after
9/11, spirited bin Laden's relatives out of the United States, imposed
security rules designed to keep us in a state of terror, and maintained
exceptionally close relations with a country that is a world leader in
educating and funding terrorists: Saudi Arabia, homeland of Osama bin
Laden and all but four of his 9/11 hijackers. This is the President who
invaded Afghanistan only to let bin Laden himself escape and to sponsor
the establishment of a new Islamic republic. This is the President who
transformed Iraq from a secular tyranny--a country that could not really
align itself with either us or bin Laden--into a recruiting ground (and
recruiting poster) for al-Qaeda, and who is now, having taught the Iraqi
people to hate and distrust America, preparing to give them democracy.

Osama bin Laden has good reason to support the reelection of President
Bush. And now he has made his judgment clear: Osama bin Laden supports
the reelection of President Bush.



--
ALEX R. COHEN, J.D.
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Doctoral student, philosophy program
City University of New York

arc@arclights.net
www.arclights.net

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LIBERTY




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