Getting What You Pay For: Times Square Bomb Crappy On Purpose

The terrorists are winning. Osama stated long ago that his plan was not to beat us on the battlefield, or blow us up, his plan was to scare this country into bankruptcy.

A while back I decided to read one of Osama's speeches, not because I sympathize with him in any way but because I realized that I've only heard small sound bites but never really heard or read a whole speech and I wanted to understand what motivates such a man. I read a transcript of his 2004 speech and I was speechless. Forget his ideology, beliefs or whatever, what amazed me was his "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan" and how now six years later it seems like we're playing right into his hands.

Osama is, or was, a seasoned fighter he's been fighting wars all his life, while Bush was playing with his GI Joes, Osama was running around a desert with an AK, so he knows how to fight and that the only way a small army can defeat a much more powerful army is through the use of guerilla warfare. In his speech Osama boldly declares his "bleed-until-bankruptcy" plan. He indicates that this war will not be a traditional war but an economic guerilla war with his intention being to force this country to spend until we've lost our economic power. Keep in mind he himself waged this type of war with the Russians and won, so he knows exactly how to fight this type of war.

Here is an excerpt of Osama Bin Laden's 2004 Speech:

"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.

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 scrutinises 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.

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.

And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost - according to the lowest estimate - more than $500 billion.

Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.

As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission.

It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you.



I suggest everyone reads the whole speech

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm#down

As I read this six years later I find it haunting and every time I hear about more millions and billions being spent for national security or these wars, these words resonate within me, "bleed-until-bankrupt".

Osama told us exactly what his intentions were and what his strategy was, and we've played right into his hands.

3) There's a great reason that terrorists prefer to use real bombs instead of crappy bombs: They want to kill people.

unless of course the crappy bomb doesn't actually work, in which case i'd think they'd favor a bomb that actually does.