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Osama’s Man in Washington

But don’t expect “Bin Ladenites for Bush” bumper stickers to start appearing. Details here:

“What have Bush and his neoconservative team really accomplished? They toppled Saddam Hussein, America now militarily threatens both the Shia government in Iran and the secular one in Syria, the House of Saud is crumbling and we have removed American troops from Saudi Arabian territory.

“These achievements match – word for word – the oft-stated goals of the Wahhabist Sunni radical Osama bin Ladin.

“Bush has clearly delivered the goods for Osama, our one time friend in fighting Soviet communism. The turmoil, destruction of economic and social life in Iraq, the escalation of political Islam there, both Sunni and Shia, and the sheer daily injustices visited on the very people we were ‘liberating’ gives al Qaeda added bonuses of recruitment opportunities, local support, and tactical access to Americans and American interests….

“Our actions in Afghanistan have resulted in warlord rule and competition throughout most of the countryside and a resurgence of the national flower, the opium poppy – again, a profitable black economy that eventually supports not only al Qaeda directly, but after it is cleaned and fluffed and sanitized, those profits are deposited in national and global banks, fueling the global financial system, and with it those who invest in American empire….

“Which candidate has done more to further the aims of al Qaeda around the world? Which candidate has killed more enemies of al Qaeda as well as directly destroyed more American troops and military capability? Which candidate has done more to recruit followers and sympathizers of bin Ladin and his message of political and violently anti-American Islam?”

Vote Republican in November!

UPDATE: Maybe W really is on Osama’s payroll? Look at this.

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