Who would Osama vote for?
Joe Klein makes the obvious point, why would he not vote for John McCain, who insists on carrying out a pointless strategy in Iraq distracting all of America’s resources from the real war against Osama and Al Qaeda?
John McCain is probably the favorite candidate of Osama bin Laden, just as George W. Bush was Osama’s presidential preference.
Why? Because both Bush and McCain have bought Osama’s disinformation about Iraq being the central front in the war on terrorism. Of course, bin Laden wants the gullible neocons to take the Iraq bait because Afghanistan really is the central front of the war on terrorism–more precisely the Afghan-Pakistani border areas where the real Al Qaeda lives. The war in Iraq has been a grand strategic gift to Osama, keeping the U.S. military tied down elsewhere and off his tail.
Ron Suskind had a relevant scene in his excellent book The One Percent Doctrine: It’s the Friday before election day in 2004 and Osama bin Laden has issued a videotape in which he lambastes President Bush. The top dawgs at the CIA are gathered to analyze the tape. Dep. Director John McLaughlin says, “I wonder who Osama is voting for?” Everyone cracks up because the answer is so obvious.
Obama is the only candidate saying he wants to refocus our attention and attack the terror groups responsible for 9/11 located in the Afghistan/Pakistan border. I certainly would never trust John McCain on the economy, and since he’s bin Laden’s obvious preference to run American’s foreign policy, I think I’ll have to choose Barack Obama in ‘08.
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April 27th, 2008 at 7:13 am
You assume that Bush and McCain are trying to wage a war on terrorism or are they using this as a diversion while they implement their own agenda.Alot of shady things have gone on in the name terror.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
You have supported Obama long before McCain was the Republican winner. I doubt you would vote for any Republican, ha.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Who would Osama vote for?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Very well said young man! When the possibility of war in Iraq was first mentioned bin Laden was rumored to be in the area of Kashmir. Why is the Pentagon just now saying that as if it were news? I’m sick of seeing our young men die
to line rich men’s pockets. War is an industry and always has been. What ever happened to peace talks? Will our species ever mature enough to outgrow war? Tomorrow is Independence Day. I’m sure that in and around 1776 the British thought we were just a bunch of ignorant thugs and terrorists too. Now they think we are a good investment.