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To: SiouxPal who wrote (64838)	10/31/2004 8:53:04 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 89467

How does this portion of Osama's speech sit with you? Osama sounds as crazy as Michael Moore....

To: SiouxPal who wrote (64838)	10/31/2004 8:56:26 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

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To: SiouxPal who wrote (64838)	10/31/2004 9:11:34 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

You go, girls! winbackrespect.org

To: SiouxPal who wrote (64838)	10/31/2004 9:43:47 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 89467

Did OBL's appearance actually scare some people? Apparently the Bushies are quaking in their boots. Why is that? They're doing exactly what OBL wants: being fearful and turning that fear turn into belligerence and profit for Bush and his cronies.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (64838)	10/31/2004 11:38:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Osama complained about the US manhunts damage to his terror organization - from Roger Simon's blog: According to the New York Post: Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape - of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday - bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it. On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military's unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border. A portion of the left-out footage includes a tirade aimed at President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, claiming the war in Iraq is purely over oil. The tape also sparked some concern that an attack aimed at disrupting Tuesday's election may be planned. But those who have seen the tape have said there was no specific information regarding an attack. Of course, the part of the tape aired does show Osama has picked up the major themes from F911 as Adam Yoshida's blog points out: Bin Laden manages to touch upon: -The “Bush lied” or “Bush misleads” theme (“Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you”). -The links between the Bush family and various Arab nations (“Both parties are arrogant and stubborn and the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared during the visits of Bush to the region while people from our side were impressed by the US and hoped that these visits would influence our countries. Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military.”). -The USA PATRIOT Act (“So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it the Patriot Law to fight terrorism.”). -The 2000 Florida Recount (“He didn't forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times.”). -“My Pet Goat” (“the girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention to airplanes butting the towers.”). Seriously, this guy could be cutting thirty second spots for MoveOn.org. Before I move on, I’ll note one other thing: there’s not one bit of rhetoric in there that you couldn’t have absorbed from a viewing of Fahrenheit 9/11. ..... The really concerning thing is just how this demonstrates how sick the American political scene has become. A man whose words are cheerfully lifted and easily used in enemy propaganda is given awards and allowed to sit alongside a former President of the United States at the convention of one of our nation’s great political parties. ...... The moral relativism of the left has now assumed all-encompassing proportions. The situation is not good. The left is now working, quite literally, hand-in-hand with the enemies of our Republic to take down this President. If the enemies of the United States can be conscripted into an election campaign, they’ll do it. If they can write material which can be gleefully consumed and used by our enemies: they’ll do it. ....... It’s just not safe to vote for Democrats anymore. There used to be patriotic Democrats: good men like Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry Truman: but they’re mostly all dead or Republicans these days.