(This began as a never-posted comment in response to part of
this good comment by
Catrina):
I am listening to the news now. Osama has obliged the Republicans with a few more videos, to add to the impact of this piece of garbage propaganda.
Does Osama work for Bush and the Republicans? Good question, but it's odd how each time they are threatened by the democratic process, Osama is right there, helping him out.
To tell you the truth, I think it would be conspiratorial NOT to be suspicious of these coincidental election reappearances of Osama Bin Laden, son of one Bush Sr.'s friends and business associates.
Osama hearts Bush, who has advanced Al Qaeda's agenda. The attacks five years ago were designed to elicit an American overreaction. The more the US overreacted, the better from bin Laden's point of view.
Our one chance to turn the tables and emerge victorious was to not fail in Afghanistan.
By virtually abandoning that country, which was already primitive, in order to send the one large Arab secular state that stood fully opposed to Al Qaeda's Wahhabi brand of insanity, to join it in the Stone Age, Bush delighted Osama.
By aggravating the rest of the world and by insulting, infuriating, injuring and killing Arabs by the thousands, Bush broadened Al Qaeda's base.
By turning Iraq into the world's largest live-fire terrorist training camp, Bush is honing their martial skills while blunting our sword. (Hezbollah has the best fighters in the Arab world today because they spent years learning from the best, the IDF)
By dividing America, the one thing he does well, Bush is in danger of losing the monopoly on power that his party now enjoys. Osama would be a fool to risk losing or compromising a polarizing force almost on a par with himself.
Bush is like a guy who keeps on feeding the cute little creature after midnight even though he lets loose a plague of vicious little devils every time.
Osama may not read blogs but does anyone doubt that he follows current events? He knows that Bush's absolute freedom of action to make awful mistakes might be curtailed if the Republicans lose even one of the Houses of Congress. Why would he not help Bush?
Despite Republican protestations to the contrary, the leader of the men who carried out the single most important act of terrorism ever, had he a vote, would vote for Bush.
Polarization works for Rove. It also works for Osama.