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Thread #73842 Message #1284243
Posted By: Nerd
29-Sep-04 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Who Would Osama Vote For?
Subject: RE: BS: Who Would Osama Vote For?
Osama would vote for Bush.
Osama's goal was to create a war, not between the US and Al-Qaeda, since he couldn't win that war, but between the US and radical Islam. He figured that mainstream Islam is at least as likely to support radical Islam as to support the west. However, for his gambit to work optimally, the west had to cooperate and alienate mainstream Islam by slaughtering civilians and destroying iconic Arabian cities like Baghdad. Osama counted on us to do that for him, polarizing the world.
Bush did EXACTLY what Osama wanted. The US is now at war with radical islam, is playing that war all wrong, slaughtering thousands of innocent Islamic civilians, destroying Baghdad. Many more muslims are now sympathetic to radical organizations than before.
Best of all, Osama is still at large! He expected he would have to be made a martyr to get such great results. Even HE couldn't have predicted how thoroughly Bush would comply with his wishes.