WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS

I don't believe that Osama Bin Laden has just been waiting for a chance to terrorize us with bombs; he has succeeded in his threat to break the US economy. He has had willing partners in the greedy Bush administration to help carry that threat out with the war profiteering. All the mercenaries are not soldiers, many wear business suits and they all are bleeding our country and its people financially dry.

Bin Laden's speech of 10/20/2004 can be read here in its entirety. However, if you lack time, the most important part of his message was:

"All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

All Praise is due to Allah.

So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah"

Despite the many warning voices, plus this well publicized speech, Americans have allowed the Bush administration to fall into Bin Laden's trap. That is why we have not had a repeat of the bombed towers. We have had a Congress and Senate that blindly followed the leader and must carry the legacy they will have well-earned in the history books for future generations to see how badly run the country has been for these last eight years.

Bin Laden further said in that 2004 speech:
"That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinizes the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.

Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results."

It seems that no one listened to or believed any of the glaring truths of the plan from the 'enemy', outlined and fulfilled right before our eyes while the Bush Administration lied to us for these almost eight years. The saddest pill for me to swallow with all this is America fights and kills its people for greed, trying to make us believe it is for principle; the enemy commits atrocities and would have us believe it was their only choice for their principle. For me it is like a bad movie that should have been titled When Evil Meets Evil. The rest of us are just the 'collateral damage' from the actions of one side or the other.