State of the Union and Osama Bin Laden

Just Last night, President Bush Gave his Fifth State Of the Union Address. As was predicted, the sixth year is the troubled one for presidents. Right on Cue he talked about foreign policy ,and the especially strong rhetoric of "second guessing isn't a strategy". This actually seems like an extremely good argument to his target audience, however his polls remain low.


But i didn't write this post to talk about the state of the union. I wanted to compare his State of the Union Address, with Osama bin ladens new videotape released in January. here is the full transcript of Osama Bin Laden's 'speech to the american people'.

You, the American people, I talk to you today about the best way to avoid another catastrophe and about war, its reasons and its consequences.

And in that regard, I say to you that security is an important pillar of human life, and that free people do not compromise their security.

Contrary to what [President George W.] Bush says and claims -- that we hate freedom --let him tell us then, "Why did we not attack Sweden?" It is known that those who hate freedom don't have souls with integrity, like the souls of those 19. May the mercy of God be upon them.

We fought with you because we are free, and we don't put up with transgressions. We want to reclaim our nation. As you spoil our security, we will do so to you.

I wonder about you. Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush is still exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true reason. Therefore, the motivations are still there for what happened to be repeated.

And I will talk to you about the reason for those events, and I will be honest with you about the moments the decision was made so that you can ponder. And I tell you, God only knows, that we never had the intentions to destroy the towers.

But after the injustice was so much and we saw transgressions and the coalition between Americans and the Israelis against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it occurred to my mind that we deal with the towers. And these special events that directly and personally affected me go back to 1982 and what happened when America gave permission for Israel to invade Lebanon. And assistance was given by the American sixth fleet.

During those crucial moments, my mind was thinking about many things that are hard to describe. But they produced a feeling to refuse and reject injustice, and I had determination to punish the transgressors.

And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it occurred to me that we have to punish the transgressor with the same -- and that we had to destroy the towers in America so that they taste what we tasted, and they stop killing our women and children.

We found no difficulties in dealing with the Bush administration, because of the similarities of that administration and the regimes in our countries, half of which are run by the military and half of which are run by monarchs. And our experience is vast with them.

And those two kinds are full of arrogance and taking money illegally.

The resemblance started when [former President George H.W.] Bush, the father, visited the area, when some of our own were impressed by America and were hoping that the visits would affect and influence our countries.

Then, what happened was that he was impressed by the monarchies and the military regimes, and he was jealous of them staying in power for tens of years, embezzling the public money without any accountability. And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the disguise of fighting terrorism. And Bush, the father, found it good to install his children as governors and leaders.

We agreed with the leader of the group, Mohammed Atta, to perform all attacks within 20 minutes before [President George W.] Bush and his administration were aware of what was going on. And we never knew that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his people in the two towers to face those events by themselves when they were in the most urgent need of their leader.

He was more interested in listening to the child's story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the towers. So, we had three times the time necessary to accomplish the events.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential nominee John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not attack us will not be attacked.

If anything, Bin Laden's speech makes you think and it actually reinforces what i have been thinking for years... Stop Pissin' people off! Make no doubt about it, Osama is messed up; He is a radical, violent, extremist. When Compared to Bush, the similararities are quite disturbing. the only difference other than religion is that Bush is not violent by nature in the way Bin Laden is. They are both religious fanatics who are crusading for what they believe to be right, and both have had a privilaged past, and are quite wealthy. In that way i am sure that that Osama actually shares a connection with bush much in the way sworn enemies sometimes respect each other. The only difference is that they have NO respect for one another when they probably should. I repeat, I still think Bin Laden is a bad guy here.
Back to where I was about upsetting radical extremists. we need to stop acting like Israel is a victim and realize that both sides are wrong, supporting neither. Occasionally I feel that the best option for complete and total peace may be the complete and total destruction of the entire area, and made so radioactive that anyone who goes there will die withing hours. not to panic anyone, but I am just saying that maybe both sides should be DESTROYED
Bush is now finding himself in a curious position ("more and more curiouser")in Iraq, and especially the recent elections in Palestine. He spread democracy, and democracy worked. Unfortunatley for him the majority ruled as Hamas won the elctions. In Iraq we find ourselves at the breaking point of a civil war. If we don't get out before it starts, we will be literally 'stuck' there for the next ten years. We have already had the chance to set a timetable to leave when the Iraqi government asked us to leave.
i was no at all surpised with Bush's state of the union adress. i have benn listening to his mumblings for five years now and i know exactly what he was going to say, except the "addicted to oil part". but that will have to wait for another day.

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